Written on August 19th, 2007 at 12:08 pm by Darren Rowse
113 Must Read Blogging Tips
When I started this months 31 Days to Building a Better Blog and decided to invite readers to submit their own blog tips I’m not sure what I was really expecting – but the results have been fantastic.
I’ve just spent the last two hours surfing through the latest batch of 113 tips (that brings us up to a total of 359 reader tips on the central page) and am quite inspired. I come away from this list with new ideas, new knowledge and with another 20 or so blogs added to my out of control feed reader.
There are still 12 days left of the project so you’ve got time to submit a tip or so of your own. To do so see the rules on the intro to the 31 Day Project post.
Now grab a cup of your favorite beverage and get reading!
- How to install WordPress manually! by Shawn DesRochers
- Post Folding by Dan Cole
- 7.5 Reasons I Abandoned You Today by Rich Minx
- Communicating With People You Haven’t Met by Pearl
- Publisher Advertising Programs Roundup by Edward Dowd
- What Can Stephen Colbert Teach You about Reaching New Viewers? by Edward Dowd
- How To Use Netvibes To Market Your Blog Or Business by Aaron
- Bumper Sticker Magic (Blog Marketing Tip #2) by JerkyBeef
- Hansel and Gretel Link-building by Skellie
- Why You Should Get Your Own Domain? by Mun
- 14 Ways to Come Out of the Blog Lurker Closet by Adino
- Be Yourself in Blog Land: Embrace the Fanboy Within by Samir Bharadwaj
- Is your blog good enough? by Andrew Boyd
- Top 3 Best Free Blogging Platforms by Ramkarthik
- How To Write 50 Articles Per Week by Tejvan Pettinger
- Wordpress : Turning 404 not found random visitors to blog readers by Fili
- fabricholic by Jill Smith
- Blogging & Your Business by Susan Payton
- Decrease Bounce Rate – Increase Subscribers and Visit Time by Rob Malon
- Use The Power Of The Slug To Increase Search Engine Traffic by Chris Lodge
- Why one Blog Carnival is Better than the Rest by jim bozs
- Technorati: How to Get Traffic by Lucia
- Blogging Tip : Read these 5 great articles on blogging. by Eklavya
- Personalise Messages and Stand Out by Michael Martin
- Link Train or Link Spam? by Tom Wilson
- Must-Have Tool For Bloggers – WORDWEB: Powerful Dictionary For Windows by Rory at Clean Cut Blog
- 5 Resources to Make YOU a Better Blogger by Simon
- 101 Ways to Monetize Your Website or Blog by Steven Snell
- How I Generated Over 3,000 Backlinks In 6 Weeks! by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
- Make More $$$ Per Click on Your Blog Instantly by Jake from MoreMerchant.com
- Warning: Do not ’steal the lead’ by Glenn Abel
- Invigorate your readers with passionate and energetic articles! by Mark
- Do you ask these questions before writing for your audience by Ashish
- Is Your Blog Content King? by PabloPabla
- daiOptimizing Wordpress for Best Performance by Karthik Kastury
- 10 Steps to Publishing a Professional Looking Post…first time by Karen
- 5 Old School Ways to Find Blog Readers and Build Community by Maria Palma
- A Blogger on Blogging – Chapter 2: Wordpress Plugins for Faster Blogging by Vlad H
- Connecting Words by RT Cunningham
- Looking for the Right Web Site Design, But Have No Clue Where to Start? by Melissa Fach- SEOAware.com
- 5 Days of… Different Types of Blog Posts by Todd Dow
- How to write Story Posts by Todd Dow
- How to write Advice Posts by Todd Dow
- 5 Blogging Mistakes I Keep Doing And Haven’t Fixed Yet by Dennis Bjørn Petersen
- 15 Benefits and Limitations of Wordpress.com Blogs by pchere
- 47 CSS Tutorials, Techniques, and Resources by Matt Harzewski
- Get Your Own Domain and Web Hosting Now! by Sly from Slyvisions.com
- 5 Ways to Make Money from your Blog by Simon
- 10 Easy Ways To Improve Your Blog Writing. by Snoskred
- Blog Wrap Ups Made Simple And Easy.. by Snoskred
- Blog Carnivals, Start to Finish by Jordan (MamaBlogga)
- Adsense for Dummies by Mon Macutay (aka GM Tristan)
- Is There A Lack Of Quality In Marketing Blogs? by Steven Bradley
- The Etiquette For Leaving Comment Links by Steven Bradley
- Increasing Traffic – Exploring The Archives Part 2 by Chris Lodge
- My Cure For Bloggers Block by Matt Jones
- 10 Ways to find more writing time by Jo
- Ranking in the SERPs – Part 2 – Influential Factors by Erik Karey
- Why You Need a Logo by Dan Cole
- What makes a Great Logo? by Dan Cole
- Networking In Your Niche: 4 Steps To Breaking The Ice by Matt Jones
- How to make your own logo by Dan Cole
- CSS Towers Logo by Dan Cole
- Is Domination of WordPress and FeedBurner good? by Sumesh
- Ranking in the SERPs – Part 3 – Tips & Techniques by Erik Karey
- 5 Easy Ways to Make Your Posts More Interesting by Erik Karey
- How to Write an Internal Market Positioning Statement by Mason Hipp
- What Stats Should you be Interested In? by Simon
- What You Can Learn From New Bloggers by Sly from Slyvisions.com
- Get more Visitors, and iPod and Cash by Jake from MoreMerchant.com
- Blog Naming Tips by Ted Demopoulos
- 10 Tips for Making Your Blog Posts More del.icio.us by Steven Snell
- Increase readership to your blog 20 percent in a month by diversifying your traffic!! by Mark
- Why You Should Diversify Your Income Stream by gaman
- 9 Reasons Why I’m Cooler Than John Chow by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
- 2 Things a Blogger should do before launching a Blog by Tyler Michael Jonsson
- WordPress Bloggers: Fix Your Incoming Pings With WP_PingPreserver by RT Cunningham
- Comment for a Review by RT Cunningham
- Beat the Summer Doldrums and Make Money Blogging by Jake R
- Get x-ray vision to see your microISV customers by Bob Walsh
- Ask your readers and customers what they want! by Bob Walsh
- Pillars support your blog success. by Bob Walsh
- Robots.txt Files: Fence off Sections of Your Web Site from Search Engines. by Fred Black
- Stop Cramming For A Post! by Wild Bill
- Increase Traffic By Fixing Broken Links by Dean Taplin
- Why Adding Pictures Is A Good Thing by Mr. Happy
- Simple Facebook Adjustements to Get Traffic by Ian Fernando
- Decide on your Permalink Structure from Day 1 by Suzanne Atkinson
- When the Blogger’s Block Hits, STOP! by Costa
- Using the Rule of 5 for Blogging Success by Takuin Minamoto
- How Important Are RSS Subscribers? by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
- Bryan Takes A Shot At Podcasting by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
- Analytics for your Blog by Anuj Seth
- How To Write A Blog Post Hung-over by Matt Jones
- Full Posts vs. Partial Posts, on the Homepage by Michael Martin
- 3 Classic Questions That Still Useful in Blogging by Ken Xu
- 4 Reasons to avoid Paid Reviews by Shrihari
- Make it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog! by Mark
- Why Didn’t I install Google Analytics Sooner? by Sue Waters
- 31 Days to Build a Better Blog–Days 11-14 by Sue Waters
- You ARE A Special And Unique Snowflake: Five Ways To Prove It by Jacqueline Zenn
- How to quickly get 100+ more readers to your blog by Ted Demopoulos
- Do it on Fridays – cherry pick a mega list post by Bob Walsh
- Take action – join blog action day! by Bob Walsh
- Build readership – ask your readers what they want by Bob Walsh
- Be bold when you blog! by Bob Walsh
- Building a Support System via Guest Blogging by Pearl
- Storytelling your Sneeze Page by Andrew Boyd
- Having Two RSS Feeds: Full Post Feed as well as Summary Feed by Ankesh Kothari
- Read if you don’t want to get penalized by Google by Vijay Shinde
- Why Does Technorati Mock Me? by Sue Waters
- Don’t Block Firefox! by Matt Harzewski
- Seven Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Business Blog by Krishna De
47 Responses to “113 Must Read Blogging Tips” - Add Yours
Steven Snell
August 19th, 2007 12:08 pm
Thanks for the links Darren!
Jake from moremerchant.com
August 19th, 2007 12:09 pm
Thank you Darren for the links and this month has been great. Keep it up!
Tyler Michael Jonsson
August 19th, 2007 12:15 pm
Thanks for the link Darren! Greatly appreciated… and as always, this is a fantastic resource!
Ashish Mohta
August 19th, 2007 12:26 pm
Thanks for accepting the request !!!! Looks like its going to take one complete day to read all those :)
Have a good day!!
Grant
August 19th, 2007 12:41 pm
I think we should all Digg and StumbleUpon this page. For two reasons.
one – because all of us in the list will benefit
two – it’s a great list
Crazykinux
August 19th, 2007 12:50 pm
Wow, talk about an extensive list! Rolling up my sleeves, getting a glass of water and let the reading begging. As always Darren, this is top notch quality info.
Thanks again!
Josh
August 19th, 2007 12:56 pm
Great post, I like the one about turning 404 page visitors into readers.
redwall_hp
August 19th, 2007 1:25 pm
Thanks for the links, Darren! I really enjoy these posts. Besides the fact that I’ve submitted links to most of them, I like sitting down and cruising through all the cool tips.
YouNeed2See
August 19th, 2007 1:29 pm
Darren this is a fantastic list. It will take me hours to get through them all. Thanks for taking the time to do this for us.
Cheers!
Ken Xu
August 19th, 2007 1:32 pm
Thanks Darren! :) This group writing project is really an excellent idea the dig more gold inside the mud! But, oh… I used up to 1.5 hour to read them all! Gosh! :)
I’m having a vacation now. I will surely submit more once I get back! Thanks again for accepting my request.
Have a nice day.
ChinaBlogReview
August 19th, 2007 1:41 pm
Wow, so many usefull posts, thanks :)
Sly from Slyvisions.com
August 19th, 2007 2:04 pm
Darren, thanks again! I really like this little project since it lets us discover new blogs out there on the web.
For those who don’t know me and my site, I’m just letting you know that it’s growing and growing each and every day. If you haven’t been there, you’re missing out on a lot of stuff. Please check it out!
Sly from Slyvisions.com
Vijay
August 19th, 2007 2:16 pm
Darren Thanks for the great list.
I was so surprised by risks involved in independent publisher blogging by reading Robin Good’s blog ban by Google. I was thinking that this is the most risk free business but I was wrong. I was thinking to have a full time blogger by leaving my current software Job in a MNC since I am getting quite good from all of my blogs now. But no! I will not go into this risk of leaving the Full time Job. Will analyze all the risk and all the alternatives for living if in case such disaster happens to me.
I request you to write a single post covering all possible Blogging risks and alternatives for those risks so that we could at least survive in those waves.
Martin
August 19th, 2007 2:51 pm
I just submitted my post. It was actually inspired by a post you wrote, so maybe mine will inspire you in some way.
Thanks!
Online Presence :: Make Money Online
August 19th, 2007 3:00 pm
Thanks for the link Darren. This is my 3rd article you’ve selected for the “31 Days to Building a Better Blog” series. :-)
HighFivez.com
August 19th, 2007 3:27 pm
Very nice list. Pass the coffee.
Wallace
August 19th, 2007 3:39 pm
actually i don’t like bulk list,
it is better that to add your brief comment for each link.
Karthik Kastury
August 19th, 2007 4:26 pm
Hi Darren,
There seems to be an error in my link.. it should be Optimizing Wordpress for Best Performance rather than daiOptimizing Wordpress for best Performance..
Imar
August 19th, 2007 6:10 pm
Cool! That is a BIG list. You might need more than one beverage to get through it… :)
Leon
August 19th, 2007 7:06 pm
All good reads. Gonna take me a while to read them all though.
Dean Taplin
August 19th, 2007 7:37 pm
Thanks for including my tip in the list. Lots of good tips for me to read over the next few days. I may have to take a break from blogging as there are so many to read :-)
Adino
August 19th, 2007 8:00 pm
Thanks for adding my suggestion to the list :) I really enjoy your tips and advice. You’re doing a great job!
Glenn
August 19th, 2007 9:18 pm
Wow – just saw this on the Delicious Popular Page. No wonder I’m getting so much traffic from this!
Chris Lodge
August 19th, 2007 9:37 pm
Many thanks for adding my tips, I’ve had loads of new visitors already :-)
J David
August 20th, 2007 12:30 am
Damn, I really need to comment more on this site if it means possibly being featured in one of these lists. That should be a tip for one of your 31 days.
sc26
August 20th, 2007 4:39 am
Top Quality list – thanks!
Krishna De
August 21st, 2007 12:05 am
Thank you Darren for including my post in your list. There are some terrific suggestions and ideas in the articles you are profiling in the series. Thanks for making it possible to collaborate in this way.
Mike Diesel
August 22nd, 2007 6:40 am
Awesome list!!! I’ll be bookmarking this for sure! Thanks!!
Matej
August 22nd, 2007 9:55 am
311 people saved it on Delicious by now!
Dave
August 22nd, 2007 11:57 am
It took me 3 different reading sessions to finish all the links in this post. Any you know what? It was worth it! Much appreciated!
maying
August 22nd, 2007 5:29 pm
Wow…I think Im gonna reserve my weekend to read all these stuff. Definitely a must read.
Charles Rey
August 23rd, 2007 5:59 pm
Thanks for the tips. This is really helpful stuff!
(FYI:
I believe you meant to type this month’s 31 days… instead you typed this months.)
Dave
August 25th, 2007 6:40 am
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Profitpub
August 28th, 2007 10:18 pm
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Lalit Nagrath
August 28th, 2007 11:36 pm
that s hell lot of articles
thanks for starting this !
Totok Purwanta
August 29th, 2007 3:46 pm
Great post, Thanks for the links Darren!
Nicholas Forrest
August 30th, 2007 8:54 am
awesome post, highly useful
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Allen Taylor
September 10th, 2007 12:37 am
How about read other blogs? I meet bloggers who start blogging but don’t really know who the top bloggers are in their niche because they haven’t read them. That should be the first thing anyone does before they start their own blog.
iliyas patel
September 18th, 2007 9:01 pm
Darren this is a fantastic list. It will take me hours to get through them all. Thanks for taking the time to do this for us.
iliyas patel
College Textbooks
October 3rd, 2007 11:38 am
Hey Darren thanks for the huge list. I will add this to my ever growing list of required reading. I only worry that the list is growing faster than I can read what’s on it.
It’d be nice if someone would go through and condense all of this articles into 1 mammoth post. :)
Max Powers at http://ConsumerFight.com
October 8th, 2007 3:21 pm
Oh my gosh! I keep adding more and more posts to my reading list. I feel that maybe now I should have learned about all this BEFORE I started my website and blog.
Of course by then there would just be more posts to learn from. This is truly a continuing learning experience that never ends.
I love it.
Darren - BlogsOnBlogging.com
October 11th, 2007 10:19 pm
Man I started going through that list, here I am 2 and half hours later…. I learnt a bit! but I will admit it (i was procrastinating….) I hope my time investment comes back to help me later!!! Great post!!!!!
Nick
November 6th, 2007 3:05 am
Hey Darren,
Great post. Read and learnt a lot from the info above and hope to learn more from you in the years to come.
Aaron
November 29th, 2007 12:17 pm
Nice tips. I definitely agree with the one about putting google analytics on your blog…I finally did that after a couple months or running my blog, and it gives a ton on information.
Bollywood -Hollywood
December 9th, 2007 8:08 pm
nice tips , will help a newbie like me a lot
thanks
Ochre Media
December 18th, 2007 6:09 pm
how to decrease the bounce rate of the site.
Suggestions…..
Dave Webb
March 26th, 2009 5:14 pm
Great list. Am about halfway through now and have just implemented my own “Comment for a Review” page on my own site.
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