How to Significanty Increase Your Blog Subscribers

TweetYour most important asset as a blogger is not the people who visit your blog daily or those who comment on your blog but those who take the pain and time to subscribe to your blog so that they can be receiving more updates from you in the future. A lot of bloggers now make a very deadly blogging mistake of focusing on getting more daily visitors instead of subscribers. Your subscribers are the ones who trust you, they’re the ones who read your content regularly and truly know you and they...

Do You Republish Other People’s Content? You’ll Want to Read This

Earlier this week Google’s “head of web spam”—Matt Cutts—posted on his blog that they’re implementing a change in their algorithm that impacts those that publish content from elsewhere on the Web. The changes are all about ranking the original sources of content higher than those who scrape/republish/copy it. This has always been Google’s intent but increasingly some have been seeing scraped content ranking higher than original sources. In Matt’s words: “The net effect is that searchers are more...

The Times They Are A Changin’…Again

TweetPeople who do business on the Internet or actually run a company in cyberspace soon get used to the idea that what’s the norm one week will crumble and blow away like dust the next. There are no other traditional values on the web except for maybe the fact that the only way to get really good leverage with any search engine optimization techniques or other kinds of advertising you use is with good content. For those of you who think I’m just...

How to Be a Remarkable Blogger

TweetHave you ever thought about what it takes to build your blog above the norm and make it the envy of everybody? What it takes is being a remarkable blogger. There are many debates in the blogosphere; some agree that content is king while others believe marketing is king. But the truth is that neither content nor marketing is king but the blogger himself. The blogger has to put the right balance between content and marketing which brings the need for being remarkable. Be Unique and Personal It...

The Best of Copyblogger 2010

Every year on the 24th of December, we tell you we’re taking the rest of the year off. And every year, we instead slip in a “Best of Copyblogger” post before New Year’s just in case you missed something from the past year. Sneaky, huh? So here are the best Copyblogger articles from 2010, based on your enthusiasm via comments, links, retweets, and indecent propositions made to our writers for creating exceptional content (I hear it happens … how’s...

10 Blogging Myths You Must Ignore

This guest post is by Onibalusi Bamidele. I’ve been blogging for almost a year now, and like every other new blogger, I spend a large percentage of my time reading other blogs. While there are some great blogs out there, I have also read blogs that are otherwise. Most of these blogs are misleading and some helped contribute to a delay in my blog’s success. I also discovered that most of these blogs are owned by those who have no experience building a successful blog—they’re either blogging just...

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...

How to Make Your Website Mobile Friendly (And Keep Your Readers Happy)

Is your website content ready for mobile devices? By the year 2013, forecasts predict that there will be 1.7 billion mobile internet users. And it’s a pretty safe bet that at least a few of them are visiting your site, and seeing it on a screen that takes up just a few inches. So what happens when readers feel cramped or have to work hard to navigate your site or read your content? They leave. Connection speed can also frustrate readers. A...

Tim Gunn’s Top 5 Tips for More Stylish Content

A little over a year ago, Brian Clark gave us a What Not to Wear guide to blogging. Brian laid the groundwork for the inherent value in talking about what’s not working. And if you haven’t read the post, clickity-click and get on that — and here’s why: We don’t change a damn thing when we’re right. Being “right” makes us do exactly the same thing, time and time again until it become rote. Habit. But being wrong … ah — dawning recognition. When...

There’s No Room for Spin On Good Content

I just finished reading an article by Aaron Schoenberger that makes a convincing case against article spinning. I couldn’t agree with him more that spinning articles is what’s been called the ‘easier softer way’ in other arenas and there are several reasons why you can’t replace spun articles with original fresh content. Following is a list of just a few of them. Spinning old articles is a cheap way out and sooner or later your readers will catch...

10 Things Bloggers Should NOT Do

Every now and then I will see a list of things bloggers should do, but I notice people are not that inclined to do what they are asked to do, while they pay more attention to things they should NOT do. That is why I decided to create the list below. Here we go: 1. You Must Not Expect Results Overnight: This is happening everywhere and that is the major reason why a large percentage of bloggers fail. Many bloggers come online unprepared and with the wrong set of expectations. They think blogging...