Blogging Tutorials

Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.

AWeber Tutorial: How to Use the Broadcast Email Editor for Your Newsletter

When most bloggers think about building an email list, the first email service that comes to mind is AWeber. Of course there are other options available, but it’s not my intention to debate the pros and cons of other popular email delivery services in this post. AWeber was an obvious choice for me, or anyone who wants to sell affiliate products while they are in the early stages of list building. One of the reasons Aweber has become so popular with many bloggers and small business owners has to do with the flexibility of the platform and list segmentation features.…continue reading…

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Blog Writing Checklist

Blog Writing Checklist: Have You Covered These 8 Blogging Essentials?

Readers love to read list posts — for example, “5 Ways To Win a Negotiation”. The advantage for you is that they’re easy to outline, to research, and to write. In the example below, we’ll follow a wedding photographer as she thinks through a blog post that she can write for her business blog. I recommend that you get out a pen and paper or open your favorite word processing document. Read the post once all the way through. Then come back and fill in your own ideas step-by-step until you’ve outlined your post.…continue reading…

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Joost De Valk

Blogger Interview: Joost de Valk aka Yoast

In this installment of the blogger interviews series, I have the chance to introduce to you to Joost De Valk aka Yoast. We chat about WordPress, plugin development, SEO, blogging conferences, social media and more. He also give us an insider tip about what might be coming to the next version of WordPress.…continue reading…

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Impressive Brand Image for your Blog

How to Create an Impressive Brand Image Around Your Blog

Today, every successful blog thrives on the brand image online. Many bloggers have the perception that only blogs with good money to spend on amazing designs and featured authors can create a brand image. It is completely untrue. The best things about a blog is that helps a person become a one-man army – depending on how well he/she expresses their opinions on a topic or issue. Creating a brand image is all about influencing your reader in such a way that it leaves a lasting impression on their minds about your blog…continue reading…

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Blog maintenance

My Routine for Blog Maintenance on Basic Blog Tips

My blog maintenance routine is basically a proactive approach to avoid problems with my blog before they ever happen. As most of the community here knows, Basic Blog Tips is a very active blog with loads of fresh content, attractive high-quality images and plenty of social sharing options to choose from. I always try to limit the number of plugins that I install on the blog but there’s always a new one that comes along that it seems like I can’t live without. When the blog seems to lag and perform poorly or if something isn’t working as it should, I can usually hone in on the problem. Here’s what I’m doing to keep things running as smoothly as possible.…continue reading…

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Comment on your blog

What Are You Getting From Your Blog Comments?

Comments are an integral part of a successful blog and it’s also one of the tools which can add a lot of dimension to your blog. So what are you getting from your comments? What, you are not sure…Ok, let’s see what all you can get from the comments. It all depends on commenting strategy, first you need to decide what do you want to get from your comments. Since the first step is to decide what you want to gain from your comments. Your strategy can be based on any of the following commenting strategies

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Marketing Your Blog

5 Simple Ways To Keep In Touch With Your Blog Readers

Our blog readers are one of the biggest and most valuable assets to our blog. I don’t know about you but I highly value my blog readers. In order to have returning traffic to your blog then these type of people must be readers of your blog. Our blog readers are the persons that normally subscribe to our blog via rss or subscribe via email. They sign up to newsletters and also make comments on articles that you work so hard to write at times. Here are 5 tips on how to keep in touch with your blog readers.

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