Although it may seem like an obvious question, do your blog readers know who you are? Do they know what you do, how you do it, and how to ask you to do whatever it is you do for them? While there may be a host of reasons for you to write your blog in the first place, none of it means anything if you don’t offer a clear-cut picture of who you are, what you do and why you…

This post originally appeared on the blogger resource site For Bloggers by Bloggers, one of the new projects from Bonsai Interactive Marketing. I wanted to share this here to show some of the cool stuff happening over there. The site’s already picking up some great traction, due in no small part to the awesome team that’s coming together on there. It’s a multi-platform blog resource, and offers a mix of free resources and some great upcoming offers to help your…

If you were asked to give someone a link to your best work, what link would you share? For me, some spring to mind, but who’s to say they’re my best work? Perhaps my favourites for whatever reason, but best? I don’t know. And what defines our best work? Is it the educational post about using the latest social media tool or application? Is it the blog post about a charity that you’re involved in? Or is it just an…

If you’re a blogger, how easy are you making it for people to subscribe to you? Sure, just having the standard RSS feed is fine, and a lot of blog readers use this and this alone. Yet email subscription – or the option of one – is becoming more popular and offers your readers more choice – always a good thing. My personal preference is email subscription. I do use Google reader but I find I can miss some great…

One of the things I’ve been considering for a while is having an official comment policy. It’s not because I feel I need one, per se – the community here is one of the best on the web. I feel incredibly lucky to have you guys come here and share your views, because you always treat both me and your fellow commenters with respect when discussing something I’ve written. That hasn’t changed. So why a comment policy? Simple – it…

For someone who’s written about guest posting a few times, as well as recommended the benefits of it to clients when talking about Blog 101, I haven’t really done a lot of guest posting myself. I’ve had brilliant guest authors here, but not really written too many myself. Maybe I should revisit my own post… Having said that, I have been fortunate enough to appear on three blogs recently. Each one offers something different, while still within the realms of…

There’s a bit of a debate as to how often you should blog if you want to have a successful blog and grow the community around it. Some folks will say you need to blog every day, or every other day. Others will say once a week. Others will say only blog when you have something useful to say (I’m not too sold on the last one – one person’s definition of useful is another’s definition of crap). To be…

For any blogger (especially if you’re using your blog for your business), Arkayne is a pretty solid platform that you might want to check out. I’ve been using Arkayne on my blog for the last month or so, and I gotta say, I’m enjoying the experience so far. I’ve not used all the features to their full advantage yet, but that’s more to do with me than the tool itself. So what is Arkayne and why should you be bothered?…

First, I just want to say none of the BlogOnCloud9 links in this post are affiliate, in case you thought this was just a blatant sales pitch… About a couple of months ago, I noticed that my site was having loading issues. I ran it through a load time analyzer and was shocked at how long it could take to load. Especially with it being reported that Google would look less favourably on slow-loading sites. My host at the time…

When I first started this blog just under two years ago, I had one clear goal – fostering thought connections. Sure, I’d be using it to offer my views on the still-emerging (at the time) social media platform, as well as ideas and solutions on how you could get the most out of the new networks and tools that seemed to be popping up all over the place. But the overriding factor would be to have my blog as a…