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Eight top blog resources from the Aussie Bloggers Forum

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 8th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips

I saw all of these recently on the Aussie Bloggers Forum. If you haven’t seen them before they are well worth a look.

75 Ways To Increase Your Site’s Traffic: A lot of these are common sense - but sometimes (especially when we’re busy) common sense just isn’t that common.
The Biggest List Of Google Adsense […]



Maintaining different blogging personas

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 2nd, 2008 • Category: Aussie Blogger, Blogging tips

Joh mentioned that she does not reveal some of the blogs that she reads in her blogroll:
My blogroll has blogs I like to read. I have a few hidden that I like to read, that I don’t feel I want to promote. I have no niche on my blog, I do it for my own […]



Favourite Five Meme

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 29th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips, Promoting Australian Blogs

Sue from Blogging Sueblimely tagged me with the Favourite Five meme - to play, I have to:
1. Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts. The posts have to relate to the 5 key words : family, friend, yourself, your love, anything you like.
2. Tag 5 other friends to do this meme. Try […]



Unhiding your blog content

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 28th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips

I asked a question yesterday: is there a good business argument for spending a lot of money on a blog theme before the blog can pay for it?
Lani (from cerebralmum.com) replied:

I don’t think that it’s overly necessary. I agree with Meg that it’s all about the content. Content is the only thing that will guarantee […]



The cost-benefit equation for theme customisation

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 27th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips

Conventional wisdom says that you should always customise your blog’s theme to help differentiate it from others in the same niche. Differentiation (that is, standing out from the crowd) is important. But how important is it?
In response to a comment from Cerebralmum on a post about advertising, I wrote the following:
There is a chicken-and-egg question […]



Blogrolling

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 27th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips

Yesterday afternoon I posted the first linkbait piece over at Intrapreneur Blog and was updating the blogrolls in some of my other blogs - and this got me to thinking about how I applied my personal rules of blogroll maintenance:

Don’t just link for linkings sake.
Only add one of my blogs to the blogroll of another […]



The importance of community: Blogs vs The Mystery Project

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 20th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips

I know that I’ve banged on about this before, but community is important. It is about connecting, being social, and being of service. Community is sexy, and it helps grow your blog. You can build and participate in communities online or offline, and sometimes both.
I’m getting a lesson in the importance of community this week […]



Blogging under the influence…

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 17th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips

Whether you celebrate the religious aspect of Christmas or not, there seems to be no getting away from the social stuff. Like it or not, Australia is smack bang in the middle of Christmas party season.
As the Christmas cheer gets cheerier, and the parties blur into one another as the orgy of indulgence reaches a […]



Weaving the threads…

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 16th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips

If you’re a regular reader of my blogs, you probably noticed that I have two related series going at once over at Facibus On Blogging - Get a real blog and the Flagship Blog Project. I’m using the birth of Intrapreneur Blog as the example for both at the moment. This is partially planned, and […]



Bloggers who work too hard….

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 11th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips, Life

I wrote an article a short time ago on Work/Blog/Life about signs that you’re working too hard (and thanks to Gary Barber for compiling the list).
I found that I had seven out of the ten signs of working too hard - something I’ve often felt - and this list brought the issue into sharp relief […]