Category Archives: Blog ideas

A blog for bloggers

It’s now just 23 days since I established this blog and the feedback has been breathtaking.  It has achieved more in those 23 days than I could possibly have hoped for and now that the dust has settled, it’s time for me to refine the focus of the blog.  As a result, I shall [...]

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Blog idea – Love everyone!

If your blog attracts regular comments, there’s a good chance that those comments are influencing the content of your posts.
Whilst this can be a good thing, it can also cause a blogger to make incorrect changes to how he or she writes or even what they write about.  That’s because those who comment on [...]

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Human powered blog traffic

This blog idea is all about how to develop a great, high quality readership for your blog.
I want to state up front that I’m a supporter of the power of effective search engine optimisation (or SEO).  That said, I also believe that relying exclusively on SEO in order to build a great audience for [...]

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Speed or quality?

If you ever wondered why so many blog posts and newsletters are uninspiring, you only need to examine the mindset of some content writers.
Someone sent me a link to a tweet yesterday.  The tweet went something like this;
“I wonder how many articles and posts I can write before 6 o’clock?”
This gave that person [...]

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Blog Idea – Cheap hosting can be costly!

I was reading post last week, on a search engine optimisation (SEO) blog.  As I’m interested in SEO and there were several other interesting posts, I bookmarked the site and decided to go back later.
When I went back to the site (5 hours later), I found that the blog was ‘down.’  This [...]

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Who benefits from YOUR social media time?

Blogging is an incredibly powerful tool for business development and a great way to share ideas and connect with people.  It’s an excellent way to deliver content and build amazing communities around that content.
However, many bloggers spend just a tiny percentage of their ’social media time’ actually blogging.  Their blogs are seldom updated, yet [...]

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Blog ideas – Full disclosure of hyper-links

When people visit a blog for the first time, there’s a tendency for them to be a little nervous about clicking hyper-links.

Some links provide relevant information to the reader, regarding the subject you are covering.
Some point to affiliate partners.
Some links manage to do both successfully. They send the reader to [...]

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Blog ideas – Keep it real

I was looking at a blog yesterday, which was an affiliate of a certain wordpress theme.  I noticed instantly that the blog wasn’t using the theme itself; which struck me as odd.  I emailed the blog’s owner and asked if he was using that theme on any other sites, so I could take [...]

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Headway: Removing the barriers

If, like me, you are a blogger BUT you are not a coder or CSS expert, life can often be extremely frustrating.  However, thanks to a discovery I made last week, these frustrations are a thing of the past – That’s why I want to share what I have found with you.
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The Twitter widget

After the launch of this blog on Thursday, a number of people asked me how they can get a copy of the Twitter ‘widget’ that I’m currently using.  So, here’s the download link, along with a few ideas on how to use it.
A brief look at The Twitter widget
The widget is a free [...]

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