Archive for: December, 2008
Written on December 31st, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
69 Questions to Ask to Review Your Blog
With the end of 2008 hurtling towards us many bloggers are beginning to cast our minds forward into the new year ahead to set goals, make resolutions and come up with strategies and plans to grow their blogs in 2009.
While looking forward and planning to improve your blog is something well worth putting time aside [...]
Written on December 30th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
How to Write Fast
Alisa Bowman from projecthappilyeverafter.com shares some tips on writing fast.
So you haven’t quite monetized your blog. That means you’re still working 8 or so hours in the non-virtual world for that paycheck. You may also have many other time commitments. They are called marriage, parenthood, friendships and Twitter.
With all of these variables vying for the [...]
Written on December 29th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Get Inspiration from Blog Comments When Writing your Next Post
Today Marko shares a quick tip on how to generate post ideas from the comments left on previous posts.
At the time of writing this, there has been 34 comments to my Create A Media Kit To Attract Advertisers To Your Blog guest post at ProBlogger.net. One of the good things about getting a guest post [...]
Written on December 28th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility
Many bloggers are upgrading versions in WordPress at the moment to 2.7 – so when Hendry Lee offered to write this guide to doing it I thought it’d be useful to many. Enjoy.
WordPress 2.7 codename “Coltrane” has been released earlier in December 2008, with the most significant change being the new Dashboard interface. A lot [...]
Written on December 27th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
How to Restart a Dead or Dormant Blog
Got an old dead blog that you want to restart? In this guest post David Peralty of College Crunch shares some tips on how to get it going again!
Over the course of time, you might have left one of your blogs, or maybe your only blog to die off. You stopped posting, thought you would [...]
Written on December 26th, 2008 at 03:12 am by Darren Rowse
Why Your Blog Should Do Community Service Work
In this guest post Debbie Dubrow from DeliciousBaby.com looks at the idea of using a blog to do community service work.
For most of us, our blogs are a place to share our passions, engage with new people, and hopefully make a little money. I want to share with you why I think it’s also important [...]
Written on December 25th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
Seasons Greetings and Why I’m Thankful
It’s just ticked over to Christmas Day here in Australia and I wanted to take a moment from the normal rhythm of this blog to stop and wish you all a Merry Christmas.
Here in Australia we don’t do ‘Thanksgiving’ as a holiday and so in our house Christmas is a day where we not only [...]
Written on December 24th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse
How to Secure an Advertiser for Your Blog
How do I sell advertising on my blog? It is a question that I’m asked a lot so when Brandon J. Mendelson asked if he could write a post on this topic as someone who has sold a lot of advertising online and in TV I thought it’d make a great guest post.
Putting together a [...]
Written on December 23rd, 2008 at 07:12 am by Darren Rowse
What to Do With Your Blog Over the Holidays
Image by SummachPhoto
Today I had a good discussion with my Twitter followers about what they were doing with their blogs over the Christmas break later this week.
Most of the answers came down to the strategies that I mention in this old post here at ProBlogger – 7 Things to Do with Your Blog when you [...]
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