Blogging Teacher

Three Easy Ways to Instantly Improve Your Blogging Score

In this post I give you three killer tips for immediately improving the quality of your blog posts, and tell you how to get 60 more tips just like them.

How to Get to the Next Level (for Bloggers Who Didn’t Know There Was a Next Level)

This is a guest post by Treacle of The Lingerie Addict, who writes about the five critical things that took her blog to the next level.

Regaining Your Balance

Like many of you I constantly struggle to find the time to develop my blogs and my business amongst all of my other commitments such as my day job and family life. I can’t think of a time in the last few years that I have really felt like I had the balance right.

WordPress Backup Plugin Review: Backup Buddy

My blogs are an important part of my business, and the recent spate of WordPress site hacks has made me thing hard about what it would mean to lose one of my own blogs in that way.

Reader Q&A: How Can I Improve My Blog?

A reader emailed me to ask how they can make their blog better.

Podcast: Deeper, Not Faster

July 22, 2010

In this podcast I talk about the difference between depth and speed for blogging, and how you can use a strategy of depth to stand out in highly competitive niches.

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The Value of Setting Blogging Goals

July 21, 2010

Your goals can be broad or they can be very specific. They can be long or short term, or a combination of both. But you definitely need to have goals. In this post I talk about the different ways that goal setting can bring value to your blogging.

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The Arrows in My Butt

July 17, 2010

I try out a lot of new things with my blogs and every now and then one of them goes wrong.

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Podcast: Deliberate Blogging

July 13, 2010

I’ve been thinking for a while now about starting a podcast, or at least doing more audio for my blogs, so yesterday on the spur of the moment I decided to record a podcast as I drove home from work. In this brief audio I talk about “deliberate blogging”, which to me means doing things with your blog in a deliberate way to maximise your effectiveness, rather than just doing things at random and hoping for the best.

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How to Remove The Date from WordPress Posts

July 8, 2010

By removing the date from my blog posts I found that the bounce rate on older blog posts improved. A couple of people asked me how to go about doing this themselves, so here are the steps you can use to remove dates from blog posts.

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Don’t Freak Out About Your Bounce Rate

July 5, 2010

A high bounce rate makes you failure as a blogger. If your bounce rate isn’t low then it means nobody is enjoying your blog. They don’t like what they see and they are leaving in boredom and disgust. A high bounce rate is basically telling you that your blog sucks.

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How to Make Art Blogs Profitable

July 3, 2010

In this guest post Cory Huff explains that making your art blog profitable is about looking at it as a platform to springboard your art sales, not as a way to directly derive money.

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Blogger Interview: Bob Bessette of Totally Unique Life

July 1, 2010

A blogger interview with Bob Bessette of Totally Unique Life, a blog about solutions for people in their everyday lives.

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Are You a Single or a Double? (The Opt-In Debate)

June 28, 2010

I’ve always been a proponent of double opt-in for building mailing lists. But a recent experience made me think a bit deeper about the pros and cons of single opt-in.

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