By Chris Nash While blogging can be a lucrative means to earn money for some, for many of us, it is an inexpensive and hopefully absorbing hobby. While experienced bloggers may wish to invest in some professional hosting, for many of us, getting started with a free site is sufficient. Indeed, there are many writers [...]
By Elizabeth McGee If you own a blog you know the importance of keeping your blog fresh and your audience interested. It can be challenging to come up with blog posts that won’t bore your visitors and is interesting enough to keep them coming back. It doesn’t matter whether you are blogging for fun or [...]
By Enzo F. Cesario Being a subset of journalism, it is no surprise that blogging shares many traits with its parent. In particular, blogging strongly resembles the feature or editorials pages of many newspapers. Not beholden to quite the same rules of timeliness or AP style guidelines as the news sections, these sections focus on [...]
By Kimberly Kennedy Bohannon Writing SEO-friendly blogs is not only a necessary study for bloggers, it is also a lot of fun. Beyond concentrating on keywords and trying to get a specific density of those words on your page, writing in an SEO-friendly way helps you to stay focused on your topic. If you do [...]
By Kimberly Kennedy Bohannon Keeping your blog focused on its stated topic is vital. It is important to use SEO because it ensures that your blog is actually about what it claims to be about. It is also important for simple readability issues. Many of the blogs out there claim to be centered on one [...]
Just How Personal Should a Blog Be? by Kimberly Kennedy Bohannon Blogs usually have something of a personal aspect to them. While blogs cover as broad an array of topics as do magazines and newspapers, they’re generally not as formal as those types of publications. For that reason, you can usually get away with journalistic [...]
By Jan Bear As you customize your blog to do what you want and need it to do, you will probably accumulate plugins the way a black coat accumulates dog hair. When you’re first starting out, though, it’s hard to know which plugins to choose. Here are seven essential plugins for beginning bloggers who are [...]
By Marcie Hill As a business owner, you are always sharing information about your products and services. Normally, this is done through brochures, websites, logos, your elevator pitch, or any other medium through which you elect to communicate. With all the means of getting your message across these days, blogs have become the primary communications [...]
By Chris Nash It is quite a common scenario. After deciding to start a blog specifically about your favorite hobby, one evening, you find yourself with nothing about that subject to write, but there is a particularly thrilling post about a concert you went to last night just itching to be written. While you originally [...]
