Blog Basics

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…]

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…]

Public Relations Tips for Promoting Your Blog

Blogs provide news and commentary one to two days ahead of major media. Those two days can make a big difference in the world of public relations. Blogs build buzz, so after you’ve launched your blog, [more…]

How to Write Popular, Successful Blogs

Blogging is one of fastest growing forms of communication. It’s easy, cheap and is a great way to develop your writing skills and get your voice heard. Blogs can take a number of forms – commentaries, [more…]

Blogging Topics for Mom Bloggers

When you're first thinking about starting a blog, it can be hard to think of all the possible directions you can go and to choose a strong niche for your blog topic. This list of over 300 blog topic ideas [more…]

Protecting Your Blog from Copyright Infringement

You can use online tools to find out if any of your content has been copied by another website and to take action if your work has been plagiarized to get the copied content dropped out of Google's search [more…]

How to Install a WordPress Plugin

Many plugins are available to mom bloggers who use WordPress. Plugins can add so many features to your blog that it may be hard to figure out which ones to use. Mostly, you won’t know what you need until [more…]

How to Sign up with Google Blogger

If you don’t already have a Google Blogger blog set up, it only takes a few clicks to get your mom blog up and running. If you already have a free Google account, which you have if you use any of Google’s [more…]