flyingrose/blogging tips

Although many don't realize it, we are all automatically finding quality information by following links from other quality information.

Each blogger can help by sharing their favorite sites with others, either here and on other social-networking sites or through posts like this one where one blogger reviews some of their favorites.

From the page: " "12 of the most inspiring, helpful, and incredible blogs that you have never heard of, but probably should have."

There are an estimated 15 to 30 million blogs owned in the United States alone. That's roughly one blog for every 20 people - not including blogs that have been discontinued or bloggers who own more than one blog.

Of those millions of blogs, there are only a few hundred that could be considered great, let alone truly helpful. And of that handful of great blogs, only a small amount provide extremely useful content for their niche. But a lot of the time there are great blogs that get overlooked; blogs that provide helpful, useful, and inspirational content, but are lost among the crowd.

Fortunately for you, I've spent the past several days compiling a list of 12 of the most inspiring, helpful, and incredible blogs that you have never heard of, but probably should have.

Take some time to stop by each one, I guarantee you will like what you read."

This blogger is talking about our own stumbler cmiddlebrook.stumbleupon.com [cmiddlebrook.stumbleupon.com] - and providing insights into how to add value to other's blogs through your comments.

From the page: "You might wonder though, does commenting actually work to drive traffic today in the more crowded blogosphere?

I actually argue that most people go about a blog commenting strategy the wrong way and there is a higher leverage technique that most bloggers don't do, but even if you follow the basic advice and just get out there and be a prolific commenter it will build traffic, and here's proof.

Caroline Middlebrook has quit her job and dedicated herself to full time Internet money making. She hasn't made a dime at it yet, but she hasn't actually attempted monetization yet either. What she is doing is totally dedicating herself to growing her blog and so far she's on the right track.

She's posted a fantastic report covering her traffic building activities for October, including breakdowns on where her traffic is coming from, what she is spending her time on and a short podcast to explain what she plans to change this month based on what she learned analyzing last month's data."

Free Blogging Tips, WordPress Tutorials,

Here is an advanced WordPress tip for linking to a series of posts before they've been published. From the page: "WordPress Tip: Finding Future Post Permalinks

In Technical Tips for Publishing a Series of Articles on Your Blog, I offered tips for how to use WordPress to publish a series of articles on your blog, linking manually between the blog posts after they have been published.

One of the benefits of writing articles series as future posts is that you can link between the posts before they are published - but only with links to past posts, not future posts.

When you include a link to a post that hasn't yet published, the reader will click on it and find themselves staring at a Page Not Found 404 Error. Not a polite thing to do, is it.

However, you can play some games with future posts to include links to posts which haven't published on posts which haven't published yet.

Why? Tracking all the links in past posts after the post has published can be time consuming. Why not shorten some of the fuss and link to the posts before they've published. You may still have to edit the posts once they are published to add links to upcoming posts, but let's do a little of it now as we are developing the posts and the thoughts are fresh in our heads.

I've been using this technique to generate links in my article series for a long time, and it helps speed up the process for me. Let's see if I can explain it so you can understand how simple this is and how much time you can save."

The largest debate about the "proper" form of Internet related words is over whether to use "Web site" or "website". Note that Web is capitalized because it is a proper noun.

This survey indicated an even split between the two forms and the belief that eventually website will become formally accepted just as the word "online" is now.

Great post from a live Webinar interview with Neil Patel. Whenever you do a Webinar record it and post it online. It will bring you more and more visitors over time and benefit your regular readers too.

From the page: "Thanks again to Neil Patel for being our special guest today to chat about social media marketing for online retailers. And thank you to all who joined us live and engaged us with some great questions.

In case you missed our live Webinar, here are some highlights of what we covered. Let's keep the discussion going. We'd love to hear your thoughts and further questions in the comments section."

The Webinar covers these points:

1.What is Social Media, Anyway?
2.What's this Link Bait Thing I Keep Hearing About?
3.Linkbait Content
4.How Does Link Bait Help Me?
5.Various Linkbait Angles to use.

There are links to quality articles by well-known bloggers and examples of linkbait angles. Definitely a good reference here.

[NOTE: If you've noticed "inconsistency" in online writing - like my use of both Linkbait and Link Bait above - there is a good reason. Doing this here, in your blogs, and on Web sites allows your text to be found in the organic search engines for both forms of the word.

These tips Mu makes for bloggers on writing for StumbleUpon that are applicable to all your blogging. Here are the points he makes. Read the post for the elaboration and how to make your posts come alive with them.

From the page: "Here are some things to keep in mind when writing specifically for Stumblers:

1. Put serious thought into your title

2. Start with a striking visual cue: A picture is worth a thousand words, and Stumblers really take that to heart.

3. Have substance above the scroll

4. Make an engaging opening splash

This is just a sample of the great list Lyndon provides. Bloggers can use it effectively to get insight into what does and does NOT work.

From the page: "You need to stop blogging right now if you think:

1. Blogging is easy
4. You don't need to study blogging or learn much about the technique
5. Starting a blog in the "How to make money" niche is the way to go
6. Darren Rowse only made it because he was in the right place at the right time
7. You don't have to spend time on crafting your headlines
8. Linking to other blogs means you will leak Google juice
9. You don't need to know anything about your target area (there are exceptions to this, but only for those who know what they are doing)
10. Blogging is only about making money
11. Linkbait is simply about being controversial
12. You can use a blog to simply sell your products
13. I can blog without having to write long, informative posts