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Should I Start Guest Blogging?

Since Alex has been kind enough to allow me to contribute a guest post on his blog, I thought it would be appropriate to write about, well, guest blogging. I believe guest blogging should be a top priority for anyone who is serious about building their online presence. After all, what better opportunity is there to expose your name to a new audience that to post on someone else’s blog?

Research and Dominate - How to Strategically Plan Your Blog for Success

I am always astounded at the speed I can do research nowadays. What could have taken weeks or a few months suddenly can be accomplished in 30 minutes or less. When it comes to blogging, you can now gather a lot of data for free.
This can help you even before you start a blog around […]

How to Make Your Comments Stand Out

Traffic generation through comments is a thing to look for in the long run. Don’t expect to receive 1000 visits only by posting a comment on a famous blog; that is not going to happen (with some very rare exceptions). Instead, focus on leaving meaningful comments on every post that you read and enjoy, focus on leaving comments that stand out.

The Educational Value of Blogging

In the early stages, blogs were mostly online diaries sharing girlfriend/boyfriend gossips, personal photos and experiences. As times passed, blogging evolved into a mass phenomenon. The more people getting caught into this blogs galore, the more experiences shared by different personalities. New trends emerged, niche blogs appeared and blogging became what we see today, a hard to perfectly define, segmented concept of online information sharing.

Whether people perceive it as an alternative to classic forms of journalism, tools for self-help, an online job or the simple morning coffee reading, nowadays, blogging has a massive educational value.

The Better Blogger, The Good Listener

When it comes to speaking, there are three types of people:
• those who speak so that other people can listen;
• those who speak only to hear their own voice;
• those who speak because they just can’t shut up.
If you’re a blogger, you’d definitely want to be in the first group.
But what does it take to […]

Blogsessive Debate: What makes us loyal readers?

Since this is a community debate, the topic I have in mind is:
What makes you come back every day (or almost) to your favorite blogs/bloggers?
What makes us loyal readers?

20 Reasons Why Your Make Money Online Blog Will Fail

What do Digg, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Reddit and other similar services have in common? Well, many things, but among them, the abundance of newly launched “make money blogging” and “make money online” blogs.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, except for the fact that at least 95% of them are meant to fail. Are you part of those potentially successful 5%? If not, it’s probably due to at least one of the following reasons.

Are Bloggers Hollywood’s Next Big Shots?

Since I can remember I’ve been a huge movie fan. No matter the genre, I’ve watched so many movies that would probably take me more than my hosting space just to list and so I came up with this post’s idea. Are bloggers Hollywood’s next big shots? You never know, but looking back to some of the best movies in Hollywood’s history I can almost see some of them playing the leading characters.

Comments or No Comments - The Big Blogging Question

Why is it that when we hear of blogging we tend to link it almost instantly to post comments? Because the conversation blogs harbor, the ingredient that makes them part of a community, what turns them into a critical part of social media, the instant feedback and interaction, all that makes blogging so wonderful is […]

Blogger in Chief - You Call the Shots

When blogs showed up, it became clear that it was my opportunity to run an online publication. And since it’s a one man show, I like to think of myself as a Blogger in Chief.