Blogging

Using a Blog to Promote Your Web Store

In essence, having a blog is like having a conversation with your customers if they came through your door in a retail setting. Many store owners use their blogs to discuss new inventory purchases, upcoming [more…]

Boosting Your Blog with Better Content

As you think about ways to generate buzz around your blog, you can also improve the quality of your blog by focusing on your posting techniques. These tips may give you some good promotion ideas: [more…]

Getting through Blogger's Block

One nice thing about blogs is that you can post whenever you want, from wherever you want. It's convenient, but it's no guarantee that you have something to post about. There are times in every blogger's [more…]

Promote Your Blogs by Sending Out an E-Mail Newsletter

Get online communities interested in your blog posts by putting together an e-mailing with your best or most popular blogs. You can feature links to your blog posting, or you can copy and paste the text [more…]

What Elements You Can Expect in All Blogs

Most blogs, no matter what topic they cover, look similar because the elements of one blog are common to all blogs. Look for these characteristics in blogs you come across on the Internet: [more…]

What You Can Find in a Blog Sidebar

Most blogs contain sidebar material. Most blogs are laid out in two or three columns, and the sidebar material typically appears in the second and/or third columns. [more…]

Use Comments to Interact with Blog Readers

Comments are what make blogs different from a Web site. The opportunity to interact and converse with the creator of a Web site and with other readers is almost unique to blogs. Visitors to a blog can [more…]

Use Blogmapping to Show Where You're Blogging From

Blogmapping (or feed mapping) is a service that displays the geographic locations of bloggers on a mapping system, such as Microsoft Live Map or Google Maps. You can map your location based on your ZIP [more…]

Share the Local Weather Report on Your Blog

Let your blog readers know just what kind of weather you’re experiencing today with iBegin Weather. This little widget allows you to choose a Canadian or U.S. city with a simple browsing interface and [more…]

Incorporate Social Bookmarking into Your Blog

When you create a catalog of links you want to bookmark on a social bookmarking site, you can share that list with others on your blog. Social bookmarking systems [more…]

Encourage Your Blog Visitors to Digg Your Content

Digg is a Web service dedicated to user-powered content. Digg specializes in user community rating and voting, which allow users to submit and vote on what content, comments, videos, or images are important [more…]

Create an Avatar to Represent You in Your Blog Profile

An avatar is a visual representation of yourself, often a comic or cartoon. Instead of a photo in your blog profile, you can use an avatar!

You can portray yourself in avatar form on any Web site that lets [more…]

MyBlogLog Builds Community with Blog Visitor Activity Tracking

MyBlogLogis a tracking and community tool that allows bloggers to bookmark and share favorite blogs, display cool widgets, and keep track of what blog visitors find interesting. [more…]

Blog beyond Your Own Site and Invite Guest Bloggers In

If you want to build a community around your blog, participate in others' blogs — and be on the lookout for bloggers who you'd like to invite to make an appearance in your own blogosphere as a guest. [more…]

Stay in Touch with Your Blog Community with E-Mail Options

Offering e-mail delivery of some or all of your blog content to your readership can attract users who aren’t comfortable with some of the fancier technologies, such as RSS. Try these three tactics with [more…]

Where to Find Blogging Help

You're not the only one blogging, whether you're using Whether you’re blogging with Google Blogger or through some other host, you’re not the only one out there sharing thoughts, experiences, graphics, [more…]

Free Blog Templates

Google Blogger helps you with the basics of creating your own blog, but you want your blog to reflect your personality, don’t you? Well, templates that you can use and adapt as your creativity dictates [more…]

How to Promote Your Blog

Once you have a blog, , whether with Google Blogger or other blogging software, you want to promote it and invite people to check it out. The Internet is full of tools to help you spread the news about [more…]

How to Make Money from Your Blog

You’re out there blogging with Google Blogger or some other host, bringing many sets of eyes to your Web site. Where’s the harm in making a little money for your efforts? The Web is full of ways to make [more…]

Google Blogger For Dummies Cheat Sheet

A public diary and so much more, your blog is a statement about you, so whether you use Google Blogger or another host, you want to personalize your blog with templates, have people read it, and maybe [more…]

How to Find and Use Templates in Your Blog

Blog design comes down to one thing: the templates you use to run your blog. In these blog templates, you find all the code — and snazzy bells and whistles — that make a blog look great. A good template [more…]

How to Find a Web Designer to Design Your Blog

You may not want to design your blog yourself — who has time to mess with all that code? Web designers create Web sites and blogs for a living. Of course, because these Web-savvy professionals rely on [more…]

How to Get Help on Your WordPress.com Blog

You can find help with all aspects of your WordPress.com blog from the WordPress Web site. Look for information about how to use WordPress.com, or have your specific questions answered, by checking out [more…]