How do you Stay Motivated as a Blogger? Here’s another question from webspear for some discussion:
“How do you keep yourself motivated, when your blog is not attracting much traffic.”
Staying motivated is a massive issue for bloggers. Without it a blog really suffers.
How do you keep yourself motivated? Do you have systems or practices that help you? I hope this discussion will be [...] [..]
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How to Grow a Young Blog With StumbleUpon Skellie wrote this post. She writes plenty more advanced blogging tips and strategies at Skelliewag.org. You can also get to know Skellie on Twitter.
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Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them? Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts.
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Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts.
My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further:
When you put a date [...] [..]
At times you could be forgiven for thinking it is - if you read a lot of blogs on ‘how to blog’ that is.
One of the first thing that most of us who write about blogging advise those starting out is to work on writing useful and unique content.
Certainly at the core of most great [...] [..]
It hits you like a TON of BRICKS! It’s an idea for that KILLER blog post that is just bound to bring you all the traffic that you’ve ever dreamed of.
With the idea fresh in your mind you sit down at your keyboard and BANG it out - desperate to hit publish as quickly as [...] [..]
In our current reader poll I’m asking readers to tell us how many posts they made on their main blog over the month of May.
It’s only been 12 hours since I posted the poll so it’s early days - however so far category with the most responses so far is 1-10 posts (currently with 30% [...] [..]
Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at important times to pause in the writing and publishing of a post. Each of these stages in the development of a blog post can contribute to whether a post makes it big around the web or not. Today we’re considering the time that you publish your [...] [..]
