Written on October 31st, 2006 at 11:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Increasing Blog Readability

Blog Design 6 comments

One of the more recent additions to my RSS feed is more minimal - a blog about… minimalism.

One of the latest posts on it relates to blogging - five ways to make your blog more readable.

focus your content
reduce the amount of text on your page
stick with simple fonts
dump the blogger bling
be smart about color

It’s […]

Written on October 31st, 2006 at 12:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Google Adds Blogs to ‘Alerts’ Email Service

Pro Blogging News 9 comments

Google has continued to integrate blogs into their news site by extending their ‘Alerts’ service (that emails you any time any site in their new index writes on a particular keyword) to cover blogs also.

This is very cool (I should say that the ‘idea’ is cool - I’m yet to actually test it)!

I have used […]

Written on October 30th, 2006 at 11:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Speedlinking - 31 October 2006

Pro Blogging News 5 comments

I’m back from our few days away. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes for our little break. It was a nice time away although we had some pretty below average weather and I’ve come back with the flu unfortunately.

I hope you enjoyed the mini-archives series that I ran - was it something people found […]

Written on October 30th, 2006 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

Product and Brand Names are Best Keywords

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 2 comments

One of the simplest and yet most effective tips that I’ve got hidden away in my archives is one reflecting upon Product and Brand Names being the Best Keywords.

The study that I linked to that stimulated the post is no longer live but luckily I took a quote from it that pretty much sums it […]

Written on October 29th, 2006 at 09:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Changing Clocks

Pro Blogging News 7 comments

A friendly public service announcement for those engaging in global communications….
Daylight Savings started here in most parts of Australia over the weekend. I’m told it also ended in many parts of the northern hemisphere.

While it signals the start of summer to us Aussies I generally find that over the next few months that quite a […]

Written on October 29th, 2006 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

What to do When Someone Steals Your Blog’s Content

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 6 comments

Another post from 2004 that I regularly point readers to (increasingly so in the last 6 months unfortunately) is:
What to do When Someone Steals Your Blog’s Content - Blog Plagiarism

Unfortunately the problem of people misusing other people’s content is one that is increasingly common. I find that some seem to do it without realizing that […]

Written on October 28th, 2006 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

Entering ProBlogging With Realistic Expectations

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 7 comments

One of the most common misconceptions that I come across with bloggers hoping to make their fortune from blogging is that it is quick and easy.

As a result I quite often point PreBloggers to the following post in the hope that it will help give a bit of a reality check.

Do you have time to […]

Written on October 27th, 2006 at 02:10 am by Darren Rowse

How to Generate High Quantities of Content for Your Blog

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 23 comments

This post is part of a series of posts that I’m writing while on a short vacation that highlights a few posts from this blog’s thousands of posts in the archives.
Another series of posts that I wrote back in my early days was titled Generating High Quantities of Content.

I started the series of 7 posts […]

Written on October 26th, 2006 at 01:10 pm by Darren Rowse

34 Tips for Finding Readers for Your Blog

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 8 comments

One of the first series of posts that I wrote on the topic of blogging was on the topic of Finding Readers for your blog.

I originally wrote it way back in 2003 on another blog and transferred it to ProBlogger in 2004. While it’s from my very early days of blogging there’s still some relevant […]