HOW TO: Build a More Beautiful Blog
This series is supported by Webdesigner Depot, a popular web design blog covering tutorials, design trends, blogging and inspirational posts. You can visit WDD at webdesignerdepot.com and follow WDD on Twitter @designerdepot. Whether you're blogging for business or pleasure, now is the time to take your little corner of the web to the next level. Social media makes your blog more visible and valuable than ever, and the amount of resources available to beautify and streamline your blog is enormous, and ever growing. The best part is, you don't have to be a designer or a programmer to create a great looking blog, but you should know where to find the right resources, and how to align your blog's design with its purpose. Learn Some HTML We all wish the web was 100% drag and drop, but we're not quite there yet. A basic understanding of the web's nuts and bolts will allow you to make custom design tweaks, fix template problems, and format your posts more precisely. Find the Right Template Tumblr
Top 20 Ways to Share a Great Blog Post
One of the best things about the web and social media is how much great information is written and produced every single day. If you're a regular reader of blogs, you probably come across great articles that you just want everyone to know about. But what's the best way to share these posts? Luckily, there's no shortage of ways to spread the word. Blogs, social networks, instant messenger, and mobile phones are some of the many ways to let others know about the best content on the web. Sharing Via Social Media: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Sharing Via Blogs: 10. 11. 12. Useful Tools for Sharing 13. 14. 15. Other Ways to Share: 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. How Do You Share Blog Posts? This post only scratches the surface of sharing in social media.
30+ WordPress Plugins To Get More Blog Readers
Gaining blog readers is hard; Wordpress makes it much easier. Here are 30+ WordPress plugins to help you garner some of that attention, and then retain readers once they visit. Crossposting DJ-Email-Publish - Once you publish on your WordPress blog, this sends the post as an email to your other blogs such as MSN Spaces. Live Space Sync - Allows you to import all your posts to your Microsoft Live Spaces so you can advertise your blog to your contacts. LiveJournal Crossposter - Automatically posts your latest entries to your LiveJournal account, or any other LJ software based site. Vox Crossposter - Makes it so your posts also appear on your Vox account. Xanga Crosspost - Allows you to have your posts appear on your Xanga account also. RSS Feed Tools ©Feed - Adds copyright info to your feed and puts a digital fingerprint on it so you can search the web for content theft. Add to Any Subscribe Button - Allows your readers to subscribe via just about any reader out there. Social Bookmarking See also:
HOW TO: Rescue Your Blog From Social Isolation
Let's face it: You never really leave high school. The Internet realm is no different. It can be hard to get your freshman blog noticed among the teeming masses of digital domains. Why? Last year the total tally of blogs hit 126 million, according to BlogPulse. That's a big class to climb to the top of. So if the only IP address StatCounter has to report is your own, and your comments section features a chorus of crickets rivaling that field behind the cabin you visited last weekend (and posted about in painful detail), face it: Your blog is that pathetic, friendless kid who skulks under the jungle gym at recess and reads Lois Lowry books in the bathroom during lunchtime. Consider this your letter home to the parents — no blog deserves that kind of social exclusion. And so begins my Netiquette column on CNN, which I write with my Stuff Hipsters Hate co-founder, Andrea Bartz. image courtesy of iStockphoto, sdominick
How To Create A Successful Blog
Do you have a great idea for a blog that you are itching to get off the ground? Not sure where you should start? Don’t worry – that is a common situation to be in. And it’s why you should focus on planning ahead, so your blog gets started on the right foot and has a strong base from which to develop in the future. The first point to consider is the basic idea. Once you have decided on your idea, it’s a good idea to plan how you will develop it. Think about whether you want to monetize your blog as well. But the most important part of creating a successful blog is TIME. The good news however is that once you have set everything up and your blog has gone live, you can devote perhaps just a few hours a week to promoting it, adding to it and getting fresh streams of traffic. And after a while, it will take on a life of its own.
8 Ways to Make a Successful Blog
A constant for me in the previous two or three years are emails of a common theme. People from around the world have often emailed me asking how they can get more people watching their You Tube videos or reading their blog. I have spent about 6 years regularly, and more often irregularly, blogging and vlogging about life in Korea and Japan, about being an educator, about my views on a wide range of other topics. I have spent more time than I can count chatting and discussing strategies with other bloggers. How can we get more traffic coming to our sites? I think I have learned a great deal in my years of blogging. How can I become a successful blogger? 1. Although I know that I myself should be more narrow and focused, I tend not to be. 2. I personally have a great deal of trouble producing regular content. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. These are all very good pieces of advice. You mustn’t only produce good regular content; you must also spend a great deal of time promoting yourself.
How To Start A Wordpess Blog and Make It Successful? | Articles
Starting a blog is useful for expressing your ideas and making extra income. Below I’ve outlined the steps to creating your own blog. Step 1: Go to WordPress.com and sign-up for a blog Some people like to use Blogger because it’s owned by Google but I believe that WordPress is a far superior blogging system. WordPress and Blogger are free so you don’t have to worry about paying for hosting fees and domain registration. Step 2: Choose The Subject Of Your Blog If you want your blog to be successful it has to be grounded by a solid subject, it can’t just ramble all over the place unless your creating a blog strictly for entertainment purposes. You can start as many blogs as you want so if you come up with a new subject/idea you can just start a new blog to cater to it. Step 3: Choose A Blog Template Or Design Your Own WordPress offers a lot of templates to choose from. After you’ve followed all of those steps you’ll have a blog ready to go.
