In the second part of a seven-day, seven-part series, Michael Martine briefly discusses the second key to better blogging: Blog Design. Find out what’s so important about your blog’s design.
Chris Lodge over at Blog Op has brought to my attention a new site called Fechr (pronouced feature), that uses a frame to display your site and expose it to new people. Sites are displayed on the Fechr start page for an entire 24 hours, and they are chosen randomly. Eventually, this is going to [...]
The first key in Michael Martine’s seven keys to better blogging is content production. This article provides a brief overview of points regarding creating killer content for your blog.
The best posts and links here on Better Blogging with Michael Martine for July 2007.
Better blogging with Michael Martine’s Comment and Trackback policy.
Another big list of blogging links for the pro blogger and for beginning bloggers!
How do you decide what blog software or service to use? Take a look at some requirements and restrictions.
I present a simple exercise in three steps to help you strengthen your blog’s brand and help you present your own personal brand or brand you to the world via your blog.
Do you know what’s so great about your blog? You’d better!
I tell the story of how one of my blogs made money, but then I jumped the shark and began to lose money and traffic. Learn from my mistakes.
Michael Martine explains the practical benefits of having a blog in addition to or even instead of a regular website.
Better blogging links for the week ending July 20th, 2007. Includes links about Firefox add-ons for blogging, SEO tips, AdSense tips, Microsoft AdCenter, and more!
A new publishing and ad revenue sharing service called LaunchTags has launched!
WordPress SEO techniques to avoid duplicate content in a video by SEO expert Michael Gray from Graywolf.
Today I had a chance to see how the blog looked in Internet Explorer 6, and it ain’t pretty. Apologies to IE6 users! I’ll see what I can do to get things working properly as soon as I can.
UPDATE: Did this do anything? Someone using Internet Explorer 6 please leave a comment and let me [...]
Basic information about what a blog is for beginners.
UPDATE: So far, so good. I’ll need to make a few more small changes, but otherwise it looks alright.
Bear with me for a few moments as I switch to a better version of my blog’s theme. The old one had some sidebar layout problems. The new one should fix that, and also look bit [...]
A shady service is about to launch that pays people to game the StumbleUpon social bookmarking service.
Links about whether social bookmarking buttons are useful to bloggers, what we wish we had known when we started blogging, strategies for AdSense, and how backlinks really work.
When it comes to building traffic and creating backlinks, directory submission is a good idea, but it is also one of the most dreadfully tedious tasks a blogger could ever undertake. Does it work? It’s been my experience that it does. A friend of mine sent me an email the other day saying his visitors [...]
13 pure SEO-only Firefox extensions for you improve your SEO game.
A review of the paid-to-blog service Smorty. Smorty is a good service because you can pick topics and your reviews don’t have to be positive, only honest and in line with the terms of service. Overall, it’s a good way to supplement your AdSense income.
Blog news about Blog Catalog, a blogger community site, has redesigned but also suffered some data loss that might have caused recent accounts to be lost.
Video presentation on SEO myths and how to do SEO followed by written list of main points with useful links to resources mentioned in the video.
Note: This used to be a page, but I decided to make it a post instead. Sorry for any confusion.
Wait a minute! Shouldn’t that headline read How to Choose a Niche for your Blog in 5 Easy Steps? Well, I suppose we could all agree that it should say that, but unfortunately, this is not [...]
A friend of mine, Greg Balanko-Dickson, is a well-established business coach and published author. The man not only gets the connection between business and blogging, he knows about the one thing a lot of web-based endeavors need help with: business models.
Greg is starting a Sizzlin’ Summer Mentor program. This is a very choice opportunity, as [...]
The 7th key of better blogging, productivity, as addressed on 07/07/07.
I made some changes to the layout and moved some pages into posts. There may be the odd broken link because of this, but I’ll try to clean things up as best I can. If you find something that doesn’t work, please leave a comment and let me know, thanks!
Weekly link roundup: links to AdSense preview tools, how to manage your blog, how to do your About Me page, and more!
