Ten Secrets to Better Blogging
There’s lots of information and advice hidden in the archives of this site, and I admit that it’s not especially easy to find it all. To that end, I’m going to put up a series of posts from time to time where I’ll give you links to 10 of my posts about a topic that might be of use to you. Today’s topic: blogging. Let me know if this is helpful. In reading through these posts a bit, it’s funny how I sometimes echo themes, repeat advice, etc. But I believe repetition is a good teacher. Plus, I’m forgetful. It’s a perfect mix.
10 Secrets To Better Blogging
10 Blogging Tips - So tiny, you can fit it on a 3×5 card, and yet, I think it’s useful.
Growing Your Audience - Some Basics - Here’s a question I get often. “How do I attract more readers?”
Basic Business Blogging Suggestions - Blogging for work? Here’s a place to look for topics and starting points.
Make Your Blog Design Work for You - Layout and design are important. I’d like to think that looks don’t count, but we both know better.
Conquering Fear of Blogging - Sometimes, we’re just not ready to make the next step. Some advice.
Writing Effective Blog Posts - It’s not that I have a formula, but I do have ideas on what works.
Seven Blog Improvements You Can Make Today - There are lots of ways that blogs thwart your audience. Here are some remedies.
Keeping the Blogging Fires Burning - Sometimes, we run out of motivation. Here’s some ways to fix that issue.
20 Blogging Projects for You - More ideas for WHAT to write, if necessary.
Performance And Your Audience - Blogging Tips - Shakespeare said all the world’s a stage. I believe it.
And if you want the “best of” from my site, there’s always this mega list of posts.
Is This Helpful
Let me know if this is useful, and I’ll continue the series. Let me know if this gave you some ideas on how to improve your blogging. Let me know if you have questions that weren’t answered by those 10 posts. Work for you ?
Oh, and in case you need to save any of these for later reference, in the right sidebar is an Eco Safe widget that saves pages (with their comments) as PDF files. So, if you want to share these around the office easily, you could always make 10 PDF files out of them and send around the bundle.
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Comments
Just compiling this stuff for a project at work! so great timing. Thanks.
I wrote a quick ‘How To’ myself, and published that on my blog this week. It focuses on the attitudes of blogging:
http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-blog.html
best dc
Chris -
Everytime I fill my bag with new tricks from your blog, you come along with another great post and I have start re-packing.
Your hidden 11th tip is how you organize your info.
Nice job…
Eric
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Very helpful. Thank you. One thing I let myself do as a blogger is grow up in public. Continued learning is part of the curve and is a good thing, IMHO. http://tinyurl.com/57amv7
Great list! Only got to check out half the list so far but will check the rest when I get home. Thanks alot!
Definitely a helpful list! Good post always tend to get buried in the archives. It’s a great idea to bring them back every once in a while.
Chris,
The information you share with your community is always timely, interesting and very useful. Thank you so much for educating and informing us. You are definitely creating good Karma!
kk
Is this helpful? Are you kidding? Of course!
This is better than getting a personal guitar lesson from David Gilmour.
Going to hit the EcoSafe button now. Thanks, man!
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Hey Chris - you could certainly package all of this info into an ebook and you would probably make a killing!
So, I thank you for your time and effort and for providing killer content gratis. :)
Chris, if I’d never followed your blogging advice some months back I never would’ve gotten my blog going — and certainly would not be writing for ZDNet now.
This advice is gold, people. It works. :)
Hey Chris,
I’m still rather new to blogging (approx 2 mths) and I’d like to thank you for posting this most helpful article. Really appreciate it, mate!
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Thanks for this. After reading here this week and at Dawud Miracle’s, I have a list of things I need to change on my website…Now to find time to make that happen. :)
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There’s lots of information and advice hidden in the archives of this site, and I admit that it’s not especially easy to find it all. To that end, I’m going to put up a series of posts from time to time where I’ll give you links to 10 of my pos…
Thanks a ton for this great list! I’ve got t bookmarked for my future reference as well. Thanks again.
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Very useful!
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:) Like it - Lots of things I need to re-remember
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Yes, very helpful, especially #6 in '10 Blogging Tips': "Don’t overthink it. (It’s a blog, not a dissertation.)". How true.
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I love this stuff.... hooked on Chris' blog!
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Oh sure, just link to your own blog pots. ;)
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I was looking for something like this; thanks
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I love the short list of ten tips. Printing it right now to go on the wall (although that might be a mistake - most of my blogging takes place on the train).
A very useful list. And the possibility to have the different blog posts as pdfs is really great. So I can archive them without having to print them out. Thanks a lot!
Ulla