The Rockstar Guide to Getting More Traffic, Fame, and Success

Have you ever been to a concert where the opening act was just awful? Maybe their music was okay, but there was something about the performance that undermined your ability to enjoy it. The group just lacked that special something that would make them stand out, that would draw you in. That quality they’re lacking is called showmanship — and it’s not just for musicians. You can spot a blogger who lacks showmanship a mile away. Even after...

Setting the Hook: Fishing for New Readers with Social Media Lures

This guest post is by Ben Harack of the Vision of Earth project. Regarding readers as fish, and bloggers as fisherman, might seem strange. Bear with me as I show you part of why I like the idea of blogging as being similar to fishing. Those of you who are familiar with fishing know that getting the fish to bite the lure is only the first step of the process. A good yank from your end is often advisable in order to “set the hook”, ensuring that the fish will be less likely to escape. A new reader...

How Many Hours Do You Spend Working On Your Blog?

This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Bill Yann asks: How many hours do you spend working on your blog every day? I am a new blogger, and I am having trouble to set a schedule for my blog. There were basically three periods in my blogging journey, and during each I would work a different amount of time on the blogs. When I first started blogging it was just a hobby, and...

Building Your Business Through Logo Branding

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Logo Mojo. All opinions are 100% mine. If there is one thing I’ve learned over the past few years while running this blog, it’s the power of a good logo. The Zac Johnson toon has taken on a life of it’s own and has become a very recognized symbol in the affiliate marketing and blogging niche. Without the extra branding from this logo and having it seen all over the place, it would be tough to...

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What Can BloggingTips.com Do For You?

With the year coming to a close, and a 2011 just around the corner, it's time to get ready for some exciting improvements coming to BloggingTips.com. When I first acquired BloggingTips.com earlier this year, I knew the potential growth and tight niche community that was already established with the site. I look forward to continuing in these same area, while bringing improvements where the site has been lacking. Here are just a few of the improvements...

Everything You Need to Import and Display RSS Feeds with WordPress

WordPress makes it super-easy to publish your own content, and even easier to import and display content from other great sites around the Web. Just as other people are displaying and reading your feed in their apps and devices, you can use external RSS feeds to supplement and strengthen your site’s primary content. Whether you’re displaying feeds from similar sites or aggregating news from around the world, importing feeds means taking advantage...

Why “Writing a Post a Day for 30 Days” Is a Brilliant Deception

They were so excited about starting in blogging. They tuned their themes and placed RSS buttons, they wrote their posts and submitted guest posts. They’ve done everything themselves to make their guests feel at home. The only thing that didn’t do right was outsourcing the reason to blog to the Goal. Now nobody knows their names and their blogs are sitting quietly waiting for time to take their domain names back to bits they’ve arrived from. It wasn’t just any goal that destroyed them, but a...

How to Monetize Your Website While Keeping Your Visitors Interested

Most website owners create and maintain their sites for the purpose of making money. Maintaining a website requires hard work. Since website owners have to pay for website hosting services, it is important for them to make money while providing valuable information to their visitors. However, some people who run websites don’t know how to properly go about this without compromising their viewers. People surf the Internet either for business or...

How to Captivate Your Audience with Story (From America’s Greatest Living Playwright)

There’s been a fevered interest in the art of storytelling among the marketing crowd recently. The masters and the hacks alike are thumping from every available pulpit that storytelling is the most powerful device on earth in regard to human influence. We are told that story — applied to salesmanship, preaching, advertising, conversation, marketing, songwriting, and blogging — contains the power to deliver the entire world to the deft storyteller’s...

Put Out the Welcome Mat: How to Run a Blog Contest with Panache

This guest post is by Nathalie Lussier. Whether you’ve got a new blog or want to jump start your existing blog, you have two options: 1) keep blogging and hope it pans out, 2) try something different. In this post you’ll learn how to run a blog contest with panache. Just like you want to organize a great party that everyone continues to talk about weeks after, your blog contest should create a great experience for everyone involved. People love participating in contests: it makes them feel like...

U.S. Government Seizes Multiple Domain Names and Sites

Quite some interesting news spreading around the internet today about the government and Homeland Security seizing and shutdown a large amount of domains around the web. “The Hill” has the full articles, which states the following: The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized dozens of domain names over...

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