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Using bbPress Forums to Community Power Your Wordpress Blog
A couple of weeks ago I had an email from Terry Ng from Kineda (a great fashion site) telling me about how they’d been using WordPress and bbPress together to create an innovative site. I asked Terry if she’d tell us what they’ve done and how they’ve done it. Here is her guest post on […]

How To Promote Other People s Content and Drive Traffic to Your Own Blog
Much has been written on the topic of how to utilize social bookmarking and networking sites to promote your own blog posts. Submitting your posts to sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit - posting about your posts on Twitter and Plurk….All of these techniques can work to drive significant traffic to your blog - […]

Why Being a Better Writer Affects the Performance of your Blog
Amrit Hallan from Content Blog writes today about how improving your writing can improve the performance of your blog - Image by The Trial.Why are writers banned and persecuted in undemocratic countries? Because the written word is stronger than the entire governments and the ruthless forces they wield upon their masses. Effective writing can awaken […]

Do You Suffer from Blogger Imposter Syndrome?
This post on Imposter Syndrome and Bloggers was written by Clarke Scott from Positive Blogger a blog about leveraging Positive Psychology to improve your blog. Image by SteffeDo you suffer from Impostor Syndrome (or IS)?Those who suffer Impostor Syndrome are convinced that friends or colleagues grossly overestimate their abilities. The ‘impostor’ feels they don’t deserve […]

When Should I Put Advertising on My Blog?
In this post Daniel Scocco answers to a question by Warren:I started a blog about Professional Lifestyle a little over a month ago. It already has gotten 16,000 visits, has almost 100 subscribers and has a google page rank of 4 (somehow). Should I put up advertisements at this early stage?Ah, the ever controversial question […]

Excuse Posts - How to Let Your Blog Go #6
Have you ever come across a blog that posts more about why they don’t post than anything else?I hesitate to write about this method of ‘letting your blog go’ because I know that most bloggers do go through stages when they struggle to post to their blog due to legitimate reasons (sickness, death in family […]

Letting Comment Spam Take Over Your Blog - How to Let Your Blog Go #5
One of the saddest things that I see on blogs is where a blogger completely gives up on staying on top of comment spam.You dig into their archives searching for information and expertise on their topic only to find their comments section completely riddled with comments that range from annoying self promotion, to links to […]

Build Your Network Before You Need It
Last week I was speaking to a business owner who was in the process of doing some ‘preliminary research’ (his words) into blogging and social media.The reason that he was thinking about getting into blogging and social networking was that later in the year he was going to be launching a new product with his […]

The Power of Getting Personal on Your Niche Blog
This time last weekend I was sitting in a delivery suite in a Melbourne hospital waiting for the arrival of my second son Henri. It would be another 12 hours til he was actually born but after he’d come along and we’d had a little recovery time I managed to get online and post that […]

How Blogging made me a Better Writer
Karen Andrews is an award winning short story writer coming up to the second year anniversary of her blog www.miscmum.com. Her first book, a children s picture book called Surprise!, will be released in Australia in October. Further details can be found at www.miscpress.com.auI recently spoke at a writers festival about the potential confluence of my […]