Capturing Attention: Your Blogging Hook

How are you getting attention in the blogosphere? In this post we’ll discuss the why and how of creating a hook or tag line for your blog. Once created, I’ll offer different methods for using your tag line throughout the blogosphere to capture attention and give visitors your blogging purpose.

Increasing Your Visibility for Visitors

Consider that if a new visitor hits your site and doesn’t find what they’re looking for, they’re going to head elsewhere to get their information. Likewise, it’s equally important that once they have found the information from your site that you keep them. Let’s talk page views and bounce rate.

14 Tips to Increase RSS Subscribers

RSS subscription count is often used to measure a blog’s success. Naturally, as bloggers we want to increase our subscriber count. And while there’s tons of ways to do this, here’s my 14 tips that we can discuss and elaborate on. What’s working for you and what isn’t?

Successfully Deep Linking

The act of deep linking offers many benefits for both bloggers and their visitors. But are you using the strategy as well as you should or at all? In this post I show you when, how, and why you should be deep linking within all of your blog posts.

Getting a Blog off the Ground

It’s easy to setup shop on a new blog with high hopes. Reading successful bloggers, their tricks, and what has worked for them gets us worked up that we’ll be able to easily create the same results — with ease. Problem is it’s unrealistic expectations and sometimes, even with the most successful bloggers it’s not easy.

Blog Love #5 Brand Inspiration

Looking to get a good idea for designing your website and building brand focus? You’ll need to look no further than some of the best CSS galleries and showcases on the web. Using these sites will show you what do you and do not love about design and how you can better build your brand.

Creating a Comment Policy

What is and isn’t allowed and expected from your commentators? Is it time to create a comment policy on your blog? In this post, we’ll discuss the point of creating a comment policy, what to include, and how to publish your policy for your commentators.

Creating a Blog of Value

Value is not just about the money that you can make from your blog but what you have to offer the readers of your blog. With a wide variety of ways to ensure that you’re creating value for your readers, let’s discuss easy methods to create value without even thinking about the process.