Blog Features
Spamtastic Advice for Bloggers!
This is going to be one of my shortest posts, but an important one to all bloggers. I just finished doing regular maintenance on all my blogs and was amazed at the tremendous increase the amount of Spam during the past week. I had over 200 spam comments on this blog alone. [...]
Who’s Number One? How About the Blog Reader!
If in business, the customer is king…then for blogging, the reader is king. Unless you simply don’t give a damn about who reads your blog or if anyone ever visits, then making the reader king is a must strategy. One way to recognize this principle and make it real on your blog is to create [...]
New Changes Coming to Blogging Startup
Since the purpose of this blog is to help new bloggers, I figured I’d do a little self examination of my blog to let you inside the design process. To start with, let me say that I broke one of my own blogging rules when starting this blog. I didn’t have the final [...]
Five Ways to Find Things at Blogging Startup
Hey, if you’re looking for a particular post on Blogging Startup, you can find it a few different ways:
Use the new “Archives” page at the top of this blog. This page lists everything ever posted at BloggingStartup.com. By the way, the page is created with a wonderful plugin called SRG Clean Archives 4.2 [...]
Hi, My name’s Jim and I’m a Blogger…
I started blogging when a friend got me hooked. He said it was just for fun…nothing bad could happen. Well, so I tried it. At first I was nervous, but it felt good so I kept doing it. I only blogged on weekends, hiding my posts when anyone was around. But it wasn’t long before [...]
Blogroll Series: If Someone Lists Me in Their Blogroll, Do I Have to Return the Favor?
I recently read a post by another respected blogger that there is an unwritten rule that bloggers must list a blog in their blogroll if that blog has done the same for them. Well, I would say there is a reason this rule is unwritten…because it makes no sense. Imagine if Darren at [...]