One of the great things about self-hosted WordPress blogging is the amount of plugins available to help you make your blog just the way you want it. For anyone not on WordPress, plugins are additional solutions that you can install to your site’s admin area, and they then offer extra functionality to your blog and… [Continue Reading]
Of Blog Design Changes and Looking to the Future

Sometimes, I feel as if I should stay away from vacations and personal downtime completely. Case in point – I’m on vacation this week and the thing I did first? Redesigned the blog. But… there is method behind my madness. Here’s the lowdown, for anyone interested in the thought process behind a blog design. I’ve… [Continue Reading]
3 Ways to Repurpose Old Content to Create New Premium Products

One of the biggest questions many bloggers ask is how to monetize their blog. Search for that on Google, for example, and you’ll get over four million results. From having advertisements on your blog to selling affiliate links (or your own product), it’s clear that bloggers want to be able to make money from blogging –… [Continue Reading]
Creating a Corporate Blog People Want to Read

While many of the tips on blog resource sites concentrate on “personal blogging”, many can be transferred to a more business-minded blog. Yet what about corporate blogs, where many of the tips given might not apply, or come up against everyone’s favourite, the Red Tape Roadblock? Can generic tips apply to more organizational blogs? Yes and… [Continue Reading]
12 Bloggers You Really Should Read in 2012

The great thing about blogging is that you get to meet so many smart people. While a post might start the conversation, the comments take it in a whole new direction altogether, and makes a post better for it. As well as blog comments offering the opportunity to read the views of these smart people,… [Continue Reading]
12 Common Mistakes New Bloggers Make

Blogging’s a great way to grow awareness of you and/or your brand and, with bloggers now getting book deals and media contracts, it can also be a lucrative one. Unfortunately, many bloggers shoot themselves in the foot by making some basic errors that holds their blog back from its true potential. Knowing how to avoid… [Continue Reading]
How to Kill Your Blog in 10 Easy Steps

So you’re bored with blogging. You have other things to do – like eat, sleep, go out, work. You know – boring “real life” stuff. Besides, thinking about it, blogging is for computer nerds and failed writers. Not to worry – help is at hand. Here are 10 ways to kill your blog. Let’s begin.… [Continue Reading]
10 Free Blog Topics to Help You Get Your Blog On

This post is part of our free blog topics series over at For Bloggers By Bloggers. For many bloggers, coming up with blog topics can be hard. Keeping your blog fresh and interesting for readers old and new can see you hitting the blog topics wall, and often that leads to you just not blogging… [Continue Reading]





