Category Archives: Blogging

Blogging advice and tips from Chris Garrett

How to Easily Boost Your Technorati Rank

My Technorati Authority seems to have been stuck for months. Luckily I might have a solution!Now before I tell you the "secret", I have to inform you that this will only work for an established blog. A brand new ...

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41 Blog Success Tips from 10 Years of Blogging You Can Learn Today

photo credit: jurvetson I have been blogging for over 10 years, longer depending on your definition. It seems while there are constant innovations in blogging, some things I ...

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The 3 Ways to Write a Blog

When you create a blog there are three ways you can approach your subject matter. Which approach you choose will have a big impact on how fast you grow awareness and audience, plus will be decisive in how easy you find the actual writing. It ...

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10 Completely Free Guides to Building a Better Blog

Most people will know by now that I offer a free ebook on this blog. Fact is, I am not the only one offering free resources that are useful to bloggers. Here are some of the best.

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Why Not Post LinkBait All the Time?

If bait is so good at delivering traffic, why would you not want to post bait all the time? People love to link it, read it and bookmark it, right? Actually long term, they don't. Bait is great used tactically, but not effective ...

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How to Get Top Blogs to Notice You

How can you get good strong links? What can you do to get big name blogs to take notice of you? Yesterday I got lucky and was linked to by Duncan at Techcrunch which led to Techmeme taking notice of our Google Hijacking 404 Pages story at the Codswallop blog. This all came about from a ...

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How to Grow Your Blog and Stop Going in Circles

A common frustration from bloggers is they get to a certain level of momentum then stall. It's like there is a ceiling that they can not break through. Rather than steaming ahead toward your goal, do you feel like you are going round in circles? How can we keep ...

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Which Post Types Make a Valuable Blog?

Someone on Twitter remarked that they were sick of all the "Why blogging is like ..." posts. To be honest I like them, and I will continue to write posts like that, but I am not surprised this particular person is sick of them. It is like top ten lists and all the other formula ...

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Why a Good Blogger is Like a Top Chef

I know you read at least read one blog. You would be surprised though how many people want to be successful bloggers without bothering to read what it is they are meant to be writing. As you might have guessed ...

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What Bloggers Can Learn from my Favorite TV Shows

Lately I haven't watched a lot of television, for a couple of years actually now I think about it. But, thanks to my handy satellite dish and DVR (Sky+ for the locals) I do keep up with some of the latest geek viewing. This is lucky because Ben over at Blogging Experiment has got a ...

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