Archive for: September, 2004

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Finding Readers for Your Blog (Part A)

Blog Promotion 20 comments

Also read Parts B - C and D of this series.
A number of new bloggers have recently asked me how to get people to visit their blog. Let me say up front that ‘getting hits’ isn’t everything - there are other reasons to blog than simply to have your thoughts read - for some its [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

How to Start a Weblog

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 3 comments

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Have you ever tried to explain how to start a blog to someone? Just point them to this post - Introduction to Blogging - its a great introduction including definitions of, tools and some great starting [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Interactive Blog Tools

Blogging Tools and Services 5 comments

In the last blog tip we talked about how comments are one way to increase the interactivity of a blog.
Of course not everyone agrees that comments are the way to go. Each to their own.
Having harped on about comments I should also say that [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Set Boundaries

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 4 comments

I found this great page 47 key tips from the World’s best Bloggers.
It was interesting to see that most of them talked about establishing boundaries for the content of your blog.
Here is what some of them had to say:
Meg from Megnut - [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

The Rhythm Method of Blogging

Writing Content 1 comment

One of the keys to blogging is frequent posting. This is what distinguishes weblogs from from static websites.
The average blogger posts once every 14 days - personally I tend to mainly visit bloggers who update more regularly than that. As a blog reader I get [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Blog Content Tip - Titles are Everything

Writing Content 6 comments

After slaving away on your latest blog post pause before you hit that ‘publish’ button and consider your title. What does it convey to your potential reader? Titles can be the difference between having your post read or ignored. Of course there are No Rules [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Blog Designers

Blog Design 10 comments

My post Where are the Blog Designers? got a bit of interest yesterday and a number of Blog Designers let us know about themselves and gave examples of their work.
I thought I’d give them a little exposure here:
As previously mentioned Cre8d Design is a [...]

Written on September 23rd, 2004 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Get to the Point

Writing Content 17 comments

The average person reading speed is 200 words per minute - What’s Yours? (The speed reading record is 1347 wpm)
In 96 seconds they will read 320 words.
So keep things short and to the point. I know this sounds crazy coming from me - but the stats show my longer posts are often largely are [...]

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