Don’t Fall in the Expert Trap - Strive for Genuine Authority
Being fascinated with experts and preferring them to others when it comes to educating ourselves on something, when we need to consult someone for advice or need to make a decision is perfectly natural. However, at the end of the day no one knows everything about everything. Therefore is it wise to check what those possessing the most knowledge within a particular field know and not least what they can teach us so that we also know more about it before dealing with something within the field ourselves. If you want to start a blog you check the meta bloggers, …
The Carnival of Bloggers Helping Bloggers 1st Edition
Welcome to the first ever edition of the Carnival of Bloggers Helping Bloggers. The posts that made this edition will teach you about everything from promoting your blog to what you should write about as well as how to track your comments, how to get more visitors and how to become a better writer. A great thank you goes out to everyone who sent in his or her post as well as to you reading this. I hope you enjoy the following articles and take away as much from reading them as I did.
The First Months of Blogging May Break or Make You
As I wrote in A Successful Blog Launch and the First Few Days Blogging is starting a new blog an exciting venture that however also has its disenchanting moments. The time following the launch have even more pitfalls and even more serious ones at that since you now have more to lose. The perhaps most serious one is that you lose the orientation. To begin with is everything so exciting and your sense of purpose seems so clear. The more other aspects that come into play and the more you work on carving out your niche the easier is …
Why You Should Want More Subscribers and How to Get Them
Circulation is as vital to blogs as it is for other media like newspapers or magazines. Imagine that you could only get the latest copy at the news stand instead of having it sent home to you on the day of publication. Subscribers are the backbone of any greater magazine or newspaper and they can also become the backbone of your blog. Just think about the consistency and power that lies in having a great subscriber base.
Introducing Content Syndication and Explaining Its Importance
When you publish something you will want alert so many people as you possibly can about it. You also want so many as absolutely possible to read it. By providing a feed are you offering a service that many people value. In essence RSS is about offering people to be alerted when something new is published and an option to read your blog without necessarily having to visit it.
