Darren Rowse of Problogger asks questions of his readers and has consistently placed polls on his blog. He’s used his Problogger blog as well as his Twitter tweets to asks various questions. So for this blog post I have one question for folks who find this blog post today – Do you like to read [...]
Articles About Blogging
Articles in the blogging category include topics on how to create a blog, using blog software for static websites, blogging tools, SEO for blogs, blog writing, and many more tips on blogging.
Other areas of blogging include small business blogging as well as business blogging in general. Monetizing a blog and blog advertising are some other topics you’ll find in this category.
I registered the name billbolmeier.com in November, 2008 and made a couple of posts. I started blogging in January 2009 with the intention of writing 2-3 articles per week but I took a liking to writing, so I wrote an article a day. Goals and Expectations One goal for starting this blog was to write [...]
If you’re writing blog posts in the WordPress editor and you’re not fond of it for any reason, here are 3 blog editors that work very well as alternatives. 1. Windows Live Writer Windows Live Writer is a nicely built piece of software from Microsoft for writing blog posts. It is a Windows program that [...]
When you first start writing for your blog, a lot of thoughts go through your mind about writing, like: “What am I going to write?” “What time of the day am I going to write?” “Should I set time to write?” “What if my writing sucks?” “How long should my blog posts be?” “Do I [...]
When you start a blog or create a website, you want some way to track your blog’s traffic and statistics so you can see how things are progressing compared to your expectations. Based on what you find buried in your stats, you can take steps to guide your statistics (traffic) in the right direction. Here [...]
If you want to add some pizzaz to your online publishing efforts, whether that’s a blog, a static website, emails, newsletters, etc., images provide a visual support to your message. Here are a few sites that offer free and paid photos that you can use. Flickr Creative Commons flickr is the preeminent photo sharing site. [...]
You’ve seen them all over the place on the web. The little orange icon with stripes through it. One looks like this: If you don’t know what they are, they represent a way for readers of a blog (or any other website) to subscribe so that as a reader of that blog you’ll be able [...]
As I mentioned in my Selecting A Domain Registrar and Web Host Solution for BillBolmeier.com article, a blog is a type of website. A blog typically lists articles or blog posts as they’re called, in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest). You can pick any topic to blog about that you’d like. It may be [...]