#blogging tips

Chances are, you either have a blog, or have thought about creating one.  Maybe you even had one years ago and it simply died a slow, quiet death.  In any case, because maintaining a blog takes time and your time is quite valuable, you’ve realized that you want a profitable blog, not just an online

About 18 months ago I made the discovery that I was seriously squandering blog traffic in a way I didn't even know about.Yet now it's one of the biggest - and most important - ways I generate traffic to my blog. This realisation came about because a fellow blogger asked me how I'd set... [This

Over the four years that I've been blogging full-time I've been contacted by quite a few bloggers to ask how I managed to give up the day job and go full-time with my blog.There's no secret formula - I'm as surprised as anyone that I'm managing to make a living out of this... [This is a content

Last week I talked about things bloggers must do when accepting freebies, and it touched on the subject of using nofollow links. However I know it remains a very confusing subject for many of us, so I thought I'd dedicate a whole blog post to the, er, joys(!) of nofollow links in a handy... [This

This week I was contacted by a blogging friend who asked for some advice where a gifted item was concerned. She had been offered some freebies in exchange for this, and this, and this, and this, and this...In fact the list was so long, I couldn't quite believe what I was reading. The PR had...