Cory Miller

Blogging Tips

  • Compelling Content that Causes Clicks: The Forbes Magazine Model

    For some time now, I’ve been clicking over to check out the delicious “In Pictures” galleries that Forbes Magazine puts up on a continual basis. These content snippets in particular are great examples of compelling content that creates clicks … Here’s two examples in particular that I ate up: 10 Elements of a Business Plan…

  • My Top 25 Favorite Blogs and Feed Reads

    This post started out as The Best Sites on Blogging, but turned into listing all my favorite blog reads. They aren’t listed in order or anything. So here goes: Problogger – Darren sets the bar for class — and content — in the blogosophere Copyblogger – How to write great content Daily Blog Tips –…

  • The Long Tail of Blogging

    I’ve been reading Chris Anderson’s excellent book The Long Tail. (Yes, I know, I’m arriving late to this party!) There are so many implications to what I’m doing online with The Long Tail. But the immediate one that occurred to me was the Long Tail of Blogging. Here’s my personal experience with this … On…

  • The First 5 Essential Tweaks I Do in a WordPress Blog Installation

    Smashing Magazine just asked for reader’s best WordPress tutorial ideas and so I’m going to unveil the first five essential tasks/tweaks I do whenever I set up a WordPress blog … Here goes … Five Essential Tweaks For Your WordPress Blog Install 1. Install the Google Sitemap Plugin — and link to it in my…

  • Following Up with Unverified Email Subscribers

    Darren has a great tip in his post about how to increase RSS subscribers. He suggests following up with those who have subscribed via email to your feed but who have not verified their subscription. This is excellent advice for those who have any kind of email subscription database. With the opt-in requirements for email…