Blogging United

Make it easy to subscribe to your blog.  Your RSS subscription link should be promenant and above the fold (near the top of the page).  Use the well known RSS icons.  Also provide and RSS-to-email option for readers who might not use an RSS reader.  Feedburner offers a RSS-to-email service.

Over the past few weeks since I acquired Blogging United, I have noticed some really strange traffic statistics being reported by Google Analytics.  Now, I’ve used Analytics for other sites before and the output seemed reasonable.  But when I took over this site, the statistics I was shown said that there was an average of [...]

Interacting with the community via social networking tools will bring further visability to your blog and what you are doing online.  Use tools like TwitterFeed to pipe your blog activity in to Twitter.  But don’t just use social networking tools as another RSS feed, be social and be a person.  Twitter is not a replacement [...]

In October, we published an article explaining what the difference is between DoFollow and NoFollow blogs. Now we can look at some ways to find DoFollow blogs that we can comment on to increase our search engine ranking.

Participate in your topic’s community by commenting on other blogs often.  Make intelligent comments, otherwise you’ll appear to be nothing more than a link spammer.  Most blog comment forms have a space for you to enter your URL - enter the URL of your blog’s front page or link to a specific, relavent post.  Participating [...]

Darren Rowse at ProBlogger explains how to restart a dead or dormant blog.  These tips could apply to your own blog, or one that you recently acquired.  Sometimes buying a dormant blog and bringing it back to life is better than starting from scratch.
Seth Godin says that headlines matter now more than they ever did.
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A great way to build up the visibility of your blog is to engage your topic’s community.  One of the best ways to do this is to invite comments and response blog posts by asking open-ended questions.  Ask your readers a question and have them respond in the comments.  Post a poll and encourage a [...]

The title of your blog post is the first line a reader is going to see.  The post title is what will catch the readers eye in an RSS reader or on your blog as they scroll rapidly.  Your title, or headline, needs to stand out in the crowd and pull the reader in.

Possibly the single best thing you can do for your blog is to post often.  WordPress (and every other blog platform I’ve used) allows you to schedule posts.  If you don’t have the time to post every day, write a bunch of posts of one day and schedule them to be published throughout the week.  [...]

When selecting a domain name for your website or your blog, the chosen domain name should have at least 1 keyword that describes your site.  Don’t pick an obsure Web 2.0-ish name for a blog if you intend to gather most of your traffic from search engines.  If the title of your blog is “The [...]