I spend time every day helping people with their blogs. I work on projects for my clients, sure, but I also answer tons of emails and spend hours switching between multiple chat windows trying to help my friends. Don’t get me wrong - I love to talk blogging, especially when I can help people understand something.

  Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve partnered with Beautiful Giveaways to give someone a complete blog makover, including setup of a brand new blog if needed. The grand prize is worth over $500! If you’d like to enter, visit the giveaway page and tell me why you want to win!.

  Yesterday I came across a new blog and wanted to contact the owner. Imagine my surprise when, after about ten minutes of searching, I realized that there was no possible way to get in touch with him other than leaving a public comment on one of his posts. I tweeted about it, only to find.

  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,.

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.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be an overwhelming topic, even for the most seasoned bloggers. For many of us, it’s confusing to think about things like rankings or search traffic when all you want to do is write posts! However, using basic SEO techniques can greatly increase your exposure and bring in new readers, and.

Those who have been around for awhile have probably noticed the ever-changing comment systems here at CKTB (and my personal finance blog, So Over Debt). I’ve used Disqus for a long time, but I recently tried out LiveFyre. As of today, though, I’ve switched back to native WordPress comments. I’ll be the first to admit.

  Traffic is the livelihood of any blog. If no one is reading, it’s not a blog; it’s a diary. Obviously you won’t have legions of adoring fans in the beginning, but at some point you start staring at your stats page and wondering what you’re doing wrong. (Believe me, I’ve been there!) So you’ve.

Last night, I received a question regarding disclosures and privacy policies: I was checking out this site, and as with other blogs, I see the disclosures page. My question is why are these needed, and how in the heck do you come up with all the information like cookies and all that stuff? I do.

  There are tons of free blogging platforms out there, but Blogger and WordPress are the most popular. Both make it fairly easy to pick a design and start blogging within minutes. After using both, however, I strongly recommend that you start on WordPress. Many people choose Blogger first. Blogger is owned by Google. When you.