April 26

How to Handle Gaps Between Blog Posts

  When you have a blog, it’s a good idea to post on a fairly regular schedule. If you go too long without new content, people might assume that you’ve fallen off the earth. Also, if people know when your posts are coming, they’ll be able to time their visits accordingly. Despite our best intentions,.

April 11

What Are All These Blog Rankings, and What do They Mean?

How do you know if your blog is successful? Do you judge by traffic? The number of Twitter followers or Facebook fans you have? The number of comments? I’ll be the first to admit that I’m obsessed with stats. After starting another blog this week (you know, because I have so much time for a new.

April 8

Quick Tip: How to Fix Double Titles in Feedburner

Every now and then, Feedburner acts crazy when you set up a new RSS/email feed. I’ve gone through the setup process dozens of times, yet earlier today I encountered the dreaded double title and could NOT get it fixed for the life of me. Basically, when someone clicked the blog’s RSS subscription button, they got.

April 4

How Does AdSense Work?

Whether you’ve been blogging for five minutes or five years, monetizing is one of those topics that almost always comes up. Should I try to make money from blogging? Can people really make a living online? How should I try to make money from my blog? Google AdSense is one of the most common ways.

April 2

Quick Tip: Publish Full Posts via RSS

One thing I harp on constantly is the importance of publishing your full blog posts for readers who subscribe via email or RSS. If you don’t publish the whole post to your feed, people will only see the first sentence or two, and as a reader, that’s horribly frustrating. The whole point of subscribing is.