Due to a major new project (I’ll update this post in a few days when I can tell you more about it), I’ve shut down Brighter Blogging for at least the next few months. Once I’m back again, I’ll send out an email: make sure you’re on the...
Seven Great Sources of New Ideas for Your Blog Do you ever struggle to come up with new blog post ideas? I think all bloggers do, at some point. Sadly, this is one common reason why blogs get abandoned: the blogger couldn’t think what to write about, and days went by,...
How to Blog Consistently and Build Your Audience: Eight Simple Steps However much you love your blog’s topic, you’re not going to get far if you don’t blog consistently. If you don’t publish posts regularly, you’ll find that: You get out of the habit of writing for...
How often do you link to other blogs and websites from your own site? You might be mainly concerned with building links within your site, to your own pages – or building links from other people’s sites back to yours (whether that’s through guest posting or outreach)....
Can you start a blog for free? Absolutely. Can you keep it going – month after month – for free? Yes! While you’ll have some limitations, if you truly don’t want to pay for anything, you can still run a perfectly good blog. In fact, I’d highly recommend that you...
A fair amount of conventional blogging advice is aimed at people who see themselves as bloggers (rather than writers – or even business owners) and who want to build and “monetize” a blog: sometimes called “ProBlogging”, after Darren Rowse’s site...
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