blogging tips

The final challenge in finding your blogging tribe is to cultivate your tribe community. Blogging is a powerful way to find support and friendship if you make the effort. Remember to always give back, offer support and provide value to your tribe and you will surely see it grow.

Think about ways you can thank your readers for supporting you. Maybe you can do a weekly round-up of links highlighting some of your tribe/commenters? The idea is to encourage interaction. If certain people comment regularly on your blog, I bet your readers might like to read their blogs, too. Pay it forward and watch your tribe grow.

Keyword usage is confusing to many bloggers. You want to optimize your blog and get some Google juice, but you’re not sure what keywords to use, where to put them, or how often to use them. Today I’ll try to take away some of the mystery for you.

A favicon is that tiny image that shows up in your browser tab next to the web site name, and in the address bar, and next to the blog name in your favorites or bookmarks list. It’s a cool tool that adds a little bling to your blog and lets people know how hip and knowledgeable you are. Here’s how you add one to your site.

There are advantages to posting often, and at regular times. The more you update your blog the more often search engines will send their crawlers to your site to index it. The more often your site is indexed, the faster your new posts will appear in search results.

You decide to start a blog. You think of a name, sign up with Blogger or Wordpress or some other platform, write a few posts and start spreading the word. What else do you need to do? Here are Five Things Every Blog Needs.

As I wrote in a previous Saturday tip: photos in your posts are good. But how do you find photos and properly attribute them? Here’s a list of sites where you can find great photos to use in your posts.

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Welcome to the weekly blogging tip and comment game! This week I’m talking about writing effective links in your posts.
When you want to insert a link in your blog post, it’s important to consider your anchor text — the words people click on to [...]