Articles About Blogging

Articles in the blogging category include topics on how to create a blog, using blog software for static websites, small business blogging, blogging tools, SEO for blogs, monetizing a blog and blog advertising, blog writing, all things WordPress and many more tips on blogging.

I’ve been looking for a WordPress image/photo gallery plugin that is simple to setup and has a great viewer that is customizable, and has an esthetically pleasing look. I found one – SimpleViewer. You can download SimpleViewer from the WordPress plugins directory or direct from the plugin’s website – AirTightInteractive. There are plenty of these [...]

Here are 5 WordPress plugins that will enhance your WordPress environment and possibly make your blog a bit better. 1. All in One Video Pack The All in One Video Pack by Kaltura, looks like, well, the All in One Video Pack.     I have not used this plugin but it looks intense as [...]

These are my blog stats for February 2009. Goals and Expectations I continue to write an article a day and my traffic numbers are going up and staying fairly balanced between search engine traffic, referral traffic and direct traffic. My Bounce Rate is around 50% which is okay with me at this point.  Bounce Rate [...]

Here’s a screen capture of the WordPress Plugins I have installed on my blog.  I’ve talked about them in some of my posts but here’s a screen capture you can click on and view a larger image if you’d like to check them out yourself and see if you can use them or even need [...]

One way to drive traffic to your blog is to become a member of a social networking site or forum and participate in the discussions at those sites. Most networking and forum sites have a profile area or allow you to have a signature where you can provide a link back to your blog.  As [...]

Hi folks, this blog post is about working with WordPress and more specifically working with WordPress locally on your computer. By locally, I mean installing and running WordPress on your PC and not over the Internet on a Web Server.  I’m working in Windows XP and that’s what this article is written around. Why would [...]

As I continue to increase the RSS subscribers to my blog, I came up with proven ways to increase your RSS subscribers.  So, here are 11 ways to increase you RSS subscribers to your blog: 1. This one is not a surprise – write great content.  What’s great content?  Below are a few examples that [...]

Here are 5 WordPress Plugins that will help you with various aspects of your blog from tracking stats to securing your blog and providing functionality. 1. WordPress.com Stats The WordPress.com Stats plugin tracks your most popular stats.  You need an account and blog at wordpress.com and your WordPress API key to use this plugin.  Here [...]