“Somewhere in the world, right now, someone is telling a story. A different story. A saga, a romance, a tale of unforeseen death, it doesn’t matter. It’s sustaining the universe. Th...
It’s plugin day again on For Bloggers By Bloggers WordPress Wednesday. With so many to choose from, there is something for everybody. Here are some that come in handy for very specific needs. 1...
A few weeks back Keith made a comment about social media traffic and I replied I’d write something for him. Yep, we now do requests over here, that’s how Joey got his Yacht and I want one...
Despite what my friend Michael Schechter thinks, images are both effective and needed for the majority of bloggers (and site owners in general). While great content may be “King”, how you...
Hi, and welcome to our weekly round up of posts. If you missed anything from this week on For Bloggers by Bloggers, you can catch up with it here. To make sure you never miss a post when it’s publish...
We’ve all seen them, and if you haven’t, you’ve heard of them. They are usually on street corners, we give them our spare change, and they are usually covered in dirt and wearing fu...
The WordPress community is full of free resources, just for the asking. And new stuff is popping up all the time. Today I leave you with just a few. Things you might not know about WordPress If you a...
Copywriting is the art of persuasive writing. Writing in such a gorgeous way that the words sells products, services, ideas and concepts. Depending on which copywriting flavour of the month you speak...
Yes. No. Maybe. It depends. I know – crappy answer, right? But each one can be applied to the question of losing blog subscribers and whether you should care or not. After all, as bloggers, we&...
If you have ever been on a school playground with a bunch of first graders, you noticed something right away. 6-year-olds are social creatures—highly verbal—but they have not yet learned to settle th...
Have you ever been told not to do something? Ever been told that something you really like is bad for you? Isn’t it always fun to break the rules and be rewarded for it? In a recent study, the ...
When you first set up WordPress, you fill in your username and password, or, depending on how you installed it, it might assign a generated login for you. In either case, it ends up on your profile u...
Last week we looked at 5 simple ways of marketing your business blog that you may not be using. I also shared the best headline ever if you read the post last week – and if not, why not?? ̵...
For many bloggers, comments are the currency on which they base their blog’s success. Sure, traffic is key, and selling products – premium or affiliate – may also be a factor they l...
The advice people give on hosting your own domain (www.yourdomain.com, rather than www. yourdomain.wordpress.com) is solid. Using a hosting service means that your blog sits square on your own piece ...
How many spaces do you put after a period when you’re writing? If you said any answer besides “one, of course,” you’re writing incorrectly and I’m about to tell you why....
When you start out business blogging, you start doing things a certain way because it suited you when you started at that moment in time. This post is aimed at business bloggers who have been bloggin...
If you’re a blogger, you may have been asked to write a guest post by another blogger. Or, you might have offered a guest post yourself to a blogger you admire. Either way, writing a guest post opens...
Anyone trying to build income from a website has to track the visitors and their actions on the site. The most popular tools is certainly Google Analytics. People love it for the various features and...
I get this request all the time. Can you recommend a good photo gallery plugin? Well, yes, but there are a ton of them out there, and some work better than others. Also, you will find a lot of themes...
“Wanting people to listen, you can’t just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you’ll notice you’ve got their strict attention....
As a communication and community-building tool, blogging is up there with the best of them as a key social media platform.A place to both offer and share opinions as well as a view at the person behi...
Hi, and welcome to our weekly round up of posts.If you missed anything from this week on For Bloggers by Bloggers, you can catch up with it here.To make sure you never miss a post when it’s published...
I got asked this question so many times. And it is definitely one of my favorites. Because I can advocate for both sides So, do you need a lot of pages to be a successful blogger? Let’s dig in!...
Detective John Kimble: I have a headache. Lowell: It might be a tumor. Detective John Kimble: It’s not a tumor!-Kindergarten CopWho didn’t love kindergarten? The blocks, the milk, the nap...
Even the smallest things that happen in WordPress can suddenly become huge problems—if you don’t know how to fix them. Here they are, some tiny, some big.1. Why is there a double return in my p...
A free report that goes viral can bring in traffic much faster than SEO and PPC combined, making it a powerful weapon in your blogging arsenal.It can be deployed to bring you free targeted visitors, ...
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