When you are looking for free images to accompany your blog post, you need to understand that – unless you are using your own images – there are copyrights and attribution rules to follow. Let’s take Flickr for example – one of the image sites I usually refer to when looking for images for my…
Enjoying surprises? Well, then what I’m about to write wouldn’t interest you… but you should read this blog post, anyway 🙂 If you are running a blog and want to better engage your readers by offering them to join your mailing list for regular newsletters (and blurbs of special offers,) you need to use email…
Bloggers blog for many reasons – to share their thoughts, to promote their “real” business, or to make money online via their own blogs. As of for me, I blog not because I like to write – I’m not a good writer and writing a 400-word article always a tough one for me. I blog…
There are times in your blogging days that you can’t blog as often as before for some reasons: Busy with your day job, having kids to take care, or simply want to take a break once and a while. If you experience such situation, you might want to consider hiring a ghost blogger. Who is…
Guest posting is a slightly controversial subject in the blog world. Most people will agree that there are some great reasons to hire on an occasional writer for your site. But others prefer to keep everything ‘in-house’, and so refuse to allow anyone to blog for them if they are not permanent members of staff.…
Did you know that your blog site speed will affect your search engine rankings? Big G let us know about site speed’s role in search rankings in the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog about a year ago. From the blog post: Like us, our users place a lot of value in speed – that’s why…
Churning out your own content can be a challenge if you publish your own online newsletter or eZine. However, regardless of the topic you are publishing on, content can be generally divided into four categories, namely factual content, short tips, mini stories and case studies. Other than writing your own content, you can get your…
As bloggers all of us have good days and bad days. On good days we write really great posts that win rave reviews, attract comments and strike up discussions and debates. On bad days we churn out posts that no one appreciates and more importantly we ourselves think suck. Did I write that? How come…
