If you care about your blog, your readers and creating your ideal future – choose the right blogging strategies for you.

Blogging strategies for your voice, your content, your community and making money online. The competition is tougher than ever. Simply putting up your online shingle is not enough.

Handle your tackle

Blogging is Like Fishing – You Need To Get A Handle On Your Tackle

Using a beautiful WordPress blog theme (like Thesis) is good in the short term, but it is better to learn how to make your own changes to create an absolutely unique blog – in design and function. In the long term, you will be able take care of yourself and become a self-sufficient blogger.

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Blogging Strategies to get your Online Shingle up and keep it up

If you care about your blog, your readers and creating your ideal future – choose the right blogging strategies for you. Blogging strategies for your voice, your content, your community and making money online. The competition is tougher than ever. Simply putting up your online shingle is not enough.

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article writing formula

Scribe has the formula to writing for the web

Scribe is a software program created for bloggers to help you write great articles. It is a professional editor on your computer desktop. It analyses your article and provides you with a report that gives you an overall score, a list of keywords that any search engine would associate the article with and lots of [...]

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A guide for adult minions and children starting their first blog

Teaching kids how to blog is not that different to explaining what the Internet and blogging is all about to an adult starting out. You just have to be more concise, more accurate and focus on particular areas more than others. A guide for adult minions helping their children set up their own website. An article for New Age Bloggers and bloggers of the future – our children.

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Getting started with Thesis without losing the plot and pulling your hair out

If you are new to blogging or WordPress you need to have realistic expectations of what is involved to avoid disappointment and get the most out of your blogging experience.

You don’t need to tear your hair out trying to get your new WordPress site to work.  You also don’t need to give up as soon as you realise you can’t get your newly purchased theme to work the way you want it to.

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12 Ways to Blog like Leonardo Da Vinci

Becoming a successful blogger can be a challenge. There are some truly brilliant minds out there competing with you for visitors and loyal readers.  If Leonardo da Vinci were here today and blogging with the rest of us, he would probably be in the top 100 blogs.  Here are 12 things you can do to be more like Leonardo … and become a better blogger…

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Commenting with the Comment Luv Plugin Increases Traffic to your Site

Do you want more traffic? Better still, do you want more traffic from readers who leave a comment?

Lots of bloggers out there, perhaps even yourself, have spent hours (too many to talk about without feeling a little embarassed) making their blog beautiful, adding great content and ranking well in search engines BUT it looks and feels like a ghost town. If this sounds like your site, then you need more commenters. Here’s how…

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Blogging Tips, Tricks, Diagrams, Lists and Things to Do

Quick Tips and Tricks, Diagrams and Lists When you want to quickly know the  what, why, when, where, who and how about something – a diagram, list or checklist will give you that quick overview that helps you see the big picture – to help you work out whether or not you can do something [...]

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