Did you participate in the blogging challenge. I sort of missed the opportunity to find all of the blogs in my fields.

If your is relevant to mine, I’ll help you out by linking to yours.
Mines is investing/economy and natural health.

Describe a typical workflow, idea to post to promoting the post.

What wordpress plugins are popular but really a waste of time?

Awesome book thanks. Two questions related to comments on blogs.

Your comments use “no follow”, as there is lots of debate about this, especially since spammers spam anyway, on what basis did you decided to use “follow” vs “no follow” links.

Also you don’t display pings from other blogs. I’m often curious about who links to other blogs and why. How and why did you decide to do this?

Thanks
Stephen

You have been an inspiration for me in creating a fairly popular blog here in Japan.

But here is my question. It seems like after a certain amount of growth in a blog, the amount of newcomers diminishes and one has to reach out to new readers.

I’ve been trying this for the past year by diversifying my post, building a community and using alternative media such as Twitter or FriendFeed, but so far it hasn’t materialized into a substantial growth.

What advice do you have for a blog that successful, but is a step behind from the top notch?

I was inspired by your method of writing a posts series and then turning that into salable material. I’m working on a structured series of lessons suitable for the classroom (plus instructor materials). I’d also want to sell to interested individuals. I want some material to be free to generate interest and trust. What would be a good approach for monetizing this material? Bonus question: how does one set up a subscription-type service with Wordpress? If you have time, you can see the skeleton I’m building at 60lessons.com.

My question: What impact, if any, has your geographical location had on your experience as a problogger? I’m in Ireland, and I’m wondering whether that’s going to be a disadvantage to me. The US seems so dominant in the blogosphere – to the extent that many bloggers don’t even seem to realise that they have a global audience. Is it harder for us peripheral types to make our voices heard?

1. When I started blogging I had no real idea what kind of articles I wanted to share with my visitors. Almost two years later there are some topics I don’t write about anymore because they didn’t give an value to my visitors (some of them are also potential clients). What is your advice about older articles? Can I delete those who don’t fit anymore in my actual vision/strategy? (most have no comments though). I have a personal 404-page where visitors can land when using a link that doesn’t exist anymore. I presume it’s no real danger to delete them?

2. A second question is probably not really related to blogging or writing articles, but I’ll give it a try :-) I’m a photographer and my portfolio and blog are 1 website. I use the Thesis theme which organizes everything very smoothly. My blog page is also the landing page but I’m struggling lately if it won’t be better to have a static and more inviting welcome page for visitors because most of them are possibly potential clients who don’t want to land on my blog but maybe rather on a welcome/info page or my portfolio. What’s your advice on this matter?

http://www.sergevancauwenbergh.be
http://www.sergevancauwenbergh.com

Sorry Faige, I haven’t looked into changing the head. but when you activate the theme you will see a link to the BFA forum where you can get answers to all types of questions fairly quickly. Usually in less than 12 hours.

I am so glad you are awed, this is indeed a fabulous theme and many changes that you might want to make are under ATO and clearly (but sometimes a bit technically) explain what the options are so you know which boxes to check mark.

If we all believed that the way to live well was by helping each other the world would be such a happier place.
Hope that helps.

How do I get it?