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Blog Exercises: What is Your Posting Response Assessment?
A few years ago, the US Air Force created the Air Force Web Posting Response Assessment (PDF), a flow chart that takes their Public Affairs Agency and other agencies involved in web publishing and...
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Blog Exercises: Where Are You?
After agreeing to take on a writing assignment regarding Oregon history, I happily settled down to do a little preliminary online research. Because some of the towns I needed to research were located...
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Blog Exercises: How Many Posts Can Your Audience Handle?
In “Blog Exercises: How Many Posts? the exercise asked you to consider how many posts you should publish within a specific time period on your site, such as by day, week, month, or year. The goal was...
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Blog Exercises: Preview Posts
Do you preview a post before publishing? If not, consider adding this extra step to the publishing process. Why? I’m human. So are you. We mess things up. No matter how careful you are, you will make...
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Blog Exercises: How Much Does Your Blog Cost?
How much does your blog cost? It should be a simple question. Do you have an answer? The costs associated with a blog are the costs associated with any website. There is the cost of the domain name, if...
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Blog Exercises: Does Your Site Look Spammy?
Does your site look spammy? How would you know whether or not your site looks spammy? It’s time for a spam check. Web design is hard, especially if you aren’t an expert. Yet, in many ways you are an...
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Are Adsense Ads Sucking On Your Blog?
Thinking about using Adsense for income on your blog? Or frustrated with your lack of adequate income from your Adsense ads? Check out ProBlogger’s article, “Does AdSense Suck for Bloggers?“, for a...
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How Much Will You Accept To Put Ads on Your Blog?
Google Blogoscoped offers “The Paid Links Economy”, an indepth look at how bloggers are using paid links to earn money. The article explores various paid link schemes, but this part jumped out at me:...
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How to Remove WordPress.com Ads From Your WordPress.com Blog
Matt Mullenweg has just announced that you can go “ad-free” on your WordPress.com blog. While you may have never noticed, those who are not logged into WordPress.com will see ads on blogs across the...
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Blog Herald WordPress News: WordPress Scholarship, 800,000 WordPress 2.7...
I just published WordPress News: Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More, this week’s Blog Herald WordPress News report....
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Blog Exercises: The Search for Like Minds
I tat. My 95 year old grandmother-in-law taught me almost 20 years ago. Tatting is 17th century lace making based upon island and coastal women looking for something to do besides fixing fishing nets...
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Blog Exercises: Comments Policy
We started with the Bloggers Code of Ethics in our blog exercises on site policies, starting you off on the right foot by knowing where you will draw your lines in the sand when it comes to your rights...
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Blog Exercises: How Long Are Your Paragraphs?
How long are your paragraphs? Have you measured them lately? One of the telling differences between traditional writing and writing for the web is the length of the paragraph. Look at the example...
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Blog Exercises: Battling the Blue Funk
My mother just sent an email saying she was in a funk. Ten minutes later I got a phone call from a friend asking to visit to help her get over the “winter funk – summer blues” – her words. I just got...
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Blog Exercises: Become Your Own Fan Blogger
Fan blogging is one of the most challenging types of blogging. Fan blogging is blogging about a celebrity, television show, movie, sports team, sports player, criminals, or other groupie subject....
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Blog Exercises: Awesome by Association
In “Two WordPress.com Experts and One Series of Blog Work,” Kinna Reads featured myself and my friend, timethief of one cool site (lowercase intentional). I’m honored and grateful, but more...
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Monetizing WordPress Plugins
There are a lot of ways you can add ads to your WordPress blog. As part of my month long series on WordPress Plugins, I thought I’d take a glimpse into WordPress Plugins that help you monetize your...
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Live Up To The Expectations of Your Readers
In The Perils of Problogging, Stellify makes some very good points in the issue of having ads on your blog and the business of blogging. However, I want to point out a beautiful statement: If you call...
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Who is Making Blogging Bucks and How?
Darren Rowse of Problogger points to an article by Roj Dash on personal branding and the chart Dash created which shows the various sources of income top bloggers reply upon. For example, it shows that...
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The Demographics of Who Clicks on Ads
In Who Clicks on Ads? And What Might This Mean? by Apophenia, there is an interesting discussion going on about ad-generated revenue on blogs and websites. Advertising is the bread and butter of the...
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