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Written on October 6th, 2008 at 09:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Home Bases and Outposts - How I use Social Media in My Blogging
Lately I’ve been pondering the part that social media plays in my blogging business.
This post is an attempt to make some sense of it. I’d value your thoughts in comments to help me take these half thought through ideas to something more concrete.
Those who have been following me for a while know that I […]
Written on October 1st, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
13 Tips on How to Have Great Conversations On Your Blog
Lately I’ve been suggesting 11 points to take a little extra time in the posting process on a blog. We’ve looked at everything from choosing topics, to crafting titles, to calls to action, to promoting your posts.
The point of this series is simply that when you take a little extra time at each of these […]
Written on September 16th, 2008 at 10:09 pm by Darren Rowse
13 Ways to Promote Your Next Blog Post
You’re slaved over your post - crafting titles, opening lines, adding depth, designing the post to be eye catching and more - you select the perfect time for your post to go live and hit ‘publish’!
It’s over - another post ‘released’ into the wild - there’s nothing more you can do except sit back, see […]
Written on September 15th, 2008 at 10:09 pm by Darren Rowse
When to Publish Blog Posts - Timing Considerations
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 […]
Written on September 8th, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
16 Important but Potentially Distracting Blogging Tasks
Have you ever had one of those days where you set aside time to blog and while you spend the whole time that you put aside busily doing ’stuff’ - you don’t end up actually writing anything?
I had one of those days this last week. After what felt like a busy day of ‘work’ I […]
Written on September 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 am by Darren Rowse
13 Ways to Add New Dimensions to Your Next Post
What do you see when you look at this image?
Image by Lord V
OK - so it’s two flies right? Yes it is…. but look a little harder.
Have you ever used one of those crazy eye cross eye 3D multidimensional pictures? This is one of them. Relax, cross your eyes a little and stare […]
Written on August 29th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Calls to Action - 12 Tips To SNAP Readers Out of Passivity
The vast majority of visitors to your blog are paralyzed by passivity.
They never comment, they don’t vote in polls, they won’t subscribe to your feed or newsletters, they won’t buy the affiliate products that you recommend, they won’t email a friend about your blog, they won’t vote for you in social bookmarking sites and most […]
Written on August 27th, 2008 at 09:08 am by Darren Rowse
Does Your Next Blog Post Matter?
If your next blog post doesn’t matter - don’t publish it until it does.
In our series on How to Craft a Blog Post we’ve been talking about ‘points to pause’ while writing a blog post. So far we’ve looked at choosing a topic, titles and opening lines and today we’re going to get into the […]
Written on August 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Is Writing Great Content Enough to Build a Successful Blog?
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 […]
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