Weblogs and Blogging

1. Do an “End of Year” or Winter Event like the auto dealers do. It doesn’t have to be terribly complicated. Just spend an hour or two brainstorming a promo and add a holiday theme.
2. Whip up a few festive graphics using the design program you’re most comfortable with - or pay a professional graphic [...]

When it comes to titles for your Web pages, articles or posts you need to keep in mind this is what it will be remembered as forever. A good headline can be the attention grabber that takes you from being some nobody in your basement to being at the top of del.icio.us, Digg and the [...]

One of those wacky new Internet trends is tumblelogging. I promise you it has nothing to do with turning flips or lumberjacks though. Tumblelogs are just like regular blogs, but you don’t have to spend so much time working out all the details of the navigation and features. Instead you focus on [...]

If there’s one thing that bloggers love more than experimenting with widgets, it’s traffic. No, not traffic on the highway, but traffic to their blogs. When you’re first starting out with this thing called blogging, it’s not always easy to gain qualified incoming traffic to your content, which can be discouraging. However, there are ways [...]

Marketing Sherpa is running their third annual blog awards this week with voting ending next Monday. Categories range from general marketing to PR to search marketing. They’ve added podcasts as a category this year but their nomination process was a bit under the radar unless you subscribe to one of Marketing Sherpa’s newsletters.
Check out [...]

With so many blogs being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out. There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them, so here is a “short” list of tips for marketing [...]

The long awaited Ask.com Blog Search Engine has finally launched. There are two iterations: One for Ask.com in the form of another right side option. The other within Bloglines.com. The Ask.com blogs and feeds search is directed more towards general users. The Bloglines versions offers more advanced options for “prosumers” as Kaushal Kurapati from Ask.com called them [...]

Splogs (or spam blogs) are being created by the millions everyday. There are so many spam blogs being created that some social network sites like tBlog view splogs as their number one enemy.

I know, I rubbed my eyes too. Apparently there’s a blog, not just any blog, but an UGLY blog that makes $10,000 per day on Adsense Ads.

Last month I had a problem with Blogger. This started me looking at other options. For me, Word Press and Movable Type are not options, currently. My web host was a good bargain, has been reliable for half a year now but I did not pay the extra for setting up a blog on my [...]

Within a few hours the word verification was removed from my blog. Possibly this was due to my using the word verification and showing the automated system that I am human, not a spamming machine. However, in that time I had begun looking at other free blog hosts and I will post about those later. [...]

I’m so angry I could begin spewing four letter words. Blogger (where I have had my blog for more than a year) has just put a word verification on my blog. This means I am stuck typing in a code each time I want to make a fresh post or edit an old one.
I [...]

Who knows why we blog, really? For myself, there is some dim idea about fame and fortune. My sensible mind knows that’s a load of laundry. There are too many blogs now for mine to stand out. It’s really nice to know people are reading what I babble on about, but I won’t get world [...]

With more companies adopting blogs, it’s no surprise Jakob Nielsen looks at the top ten blog usability design mistakes. Author biographies and photos should be a given for any business Web site as it lets people know there are humans behind the company. This is not limited to blogs. However, if the blogger doesn’t have [...]

Yesterday I took The Great Canadian Blog Survey If you are Canadian and have ever heard of the word “blog” you can take the survey too. It’s closing at the end of September. Aaron, the surveyor, hopes to get 1,500 responses, at least.
The survey is about keeping blogs and reading blogs, so you don’t [...]

If you’re in San Francisco September 24th and 25th, you could get a ticket for WebZine 2005.
Skimming the site, as I tend to do, I read “Dude, the Web is totally corporate. Why now?” That seemed odd to me. I felt just the opposite. There are more independent zines, personal sites, and [...]

Google has a blog search. It’s in beta. I tried it out on Blogger, just now. It’s like a fun game. You type in something completely random and see all the completely random stuff that comes up from all the blogs. You’re not likely to find a blog about your topic, exactly. Just any [...]

Ever wondered what the typical blog reader looks like? A recent study by comScore (pdf) shows the “Scale, Composition and Activities of Weblog Audiences”. To sum it up, the average blog reader is young, wealthy and spends more time and money online than the average internet user.
Key findings include the following:
· 50 million U.S. [...]

This reBlog is an interesting idea. However, it seems like it holds similarities to other services that have already been out for some time now. Am I nuts here?

When it comes to popularity, MovableType is the most popular blogging software for multiple blogs, hands down. MovableType has a great framework, top developers and a plethora of plugins to enhance your blog. MovableType has carefully built up a reputation as a great blogging utility, especially for multiple blogs. However, the only [...]