Did you know you can get themes over at WordPress Theme Directory. Here are three from the directory that I like. 1. This is a clean and simple theme called Fusion. A reader of a blog with this theme can click on an arrow image in the upper right-hand corner of the theme to widen [...]
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.
In this 16-minute video from the guys at Blogopolis Blueprint, Darren Rowse shares some thoughts about making blog posts better and blogging in general.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Joost de Valk of Yoast – Tweaking Websites, gave a lecture on WordPress SEO and Optimization at the 2008 a4uexpo Affiliate Marketing Conference and Exhibition in London. Here’s the video and below are my notes if you don’t want to watch the video. The video is approximately 50 minutes long and my notes don’t include [...]
3 Blog Traffic Building Tips – Part 1
When you start a new blog, there are steps you can take to help drive traffic to your blog. Traffic is people visiting your blog. If you’re blogging for reasons other than sharing news with family and friends, then this is important. Here are 3 tips (maybe a bit more than that) you can do [...]