Ten Secrets to Better Blogging

July 10, 2008 · Comments

10There’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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  • 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
  • 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...

    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
  • 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, Great ideas all in one place. Thanks. Lois
  • 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
  • Awesome. Thanks for putting this together and sharing it with us all.
  • 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!
  • You presented a good article about blogging. A very informative one.
  • Hey Chris - this is very helpful! Going to paw through them this afternoon =)

    Cheers,
    Adam
  • Thank you! Bedtime reading for me tonight and I'm sure I will want to share.
  • So helpful, Chris, thank you. Especially for a new blogger like me. :)
  • 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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  • Nice tips for bloogging. thanks
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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. :)
  • Thanks a ton for this great list! I've got t bookmarked for my future reference as well. Thanks again.
  • 2sThank's.1v I compleatly disagree with last post . gcu
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  • Thank you so much for your site. This is an incredible amount of information in one place and I really appreciate the time that you put into this site.
  • Taylor
    I appreciate all of your helpful hints and tips...I'm just getting started with the new (to me at least) concept of "corporate blogging" and trying to glean any and all information I can to make it successful. Thanks for the great ideas and pointers, I've no doubt they'll be very useful!
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