Archive for Blogging

Linkbait These 40 Big Boys and Girls

Frantic Industries has a post listing the Top 40 Blogs according to their Feedburner reader stats.
I’d venture to say … get linked by ANY of them, especially if they’re in your blog topic, and you’re likely to score some HUGE traffic and launch your blog onto a whole new level.
On my main blog, I found […]

Blogs Can Be a High-Tech Resume

I’m a big Penelop Trunk fan and reading her post Blogging Essential For a Good Career again made me think about the web design work I’m doing — i.e. custom WordPress themes — and how, as she pointed out in that post, blogging can be leveraged to “get a job.”
Speaking from experience, I personally know […]

How to Increase Your Blog’s Email Newsletter and Feeds Subscriptions

I’ve started a new category called “Advice I Give My Clients” and while I might not give everything away through this series of posts … I’m planning on giving some good advice I’ve learned in my blogging experience.
So here’s the first in this series … how to increase your blog’s email newsletter and feed subscriptions […]

Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog

Here’s a great article on finetuning your WordPress blog into an even higher performing web tool …
Also, I wrote a whole series on how to use WordPress as a content management system to run a whole website.
[Found via Performancing]

Getting Linked by Lorelle and Blog Herald

You know you’re doing something worthwhile when you get linked by the Blogging Elite.
Lorelle stopped by my main blog Church Communications Pro, made a comment, then went and wrote a whole post with several links to me at the Blog Herald.
Read it all here.

Why Is This Blog So Stinking Plain?

Yeah, I know … my site is super simple and plain … but really, the word for it is “minimalistic.” That’s the name of the WordPress theme I’m using, which I designed.
Here’s one real simple reason for its, uh, simplicity: It’s too hard to keep up so many blog sites and I want to focus […]

5 Thoughts on Blogging Your Very Own Book

LifeHacker’s editor Gina Trapani has some great advice about blogging a book … that is equally as sharp for writing and maintaining a blog that people actually want to read.
Blogs are perfect for helping you write the book you’ve always wanted to write … but just haven’t.
Here are 5 ways I think blogging your book […]