Build a Blog

Do you recognise the 3 most important steps to building a blog

After writing the post the other day about the ups and downs of blogging, it got me thinking about what I feel are the three most important tips I would give to a beginner blogger about building a blog, if they asked me. What would be the three most important nuggets of information to help [...]

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Looking at a Well Branded Blog

This post is more of my thought process about branding for blogs and what a powerful tool it can be, to help a blog be read by as many people as possible. After writing the post the other day about branding your blog to raise it’s profile I started to wonder if I could find an [...]

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Branding for your blog

Do you have to use branding on your blog No, but it can be useful. At the moment I am working on building the case study blog, I would like it to build a presence in the digital photography niche, although I do know it’s a competitive one. And to get my blog’s face known out there, [...]

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Getting the most out of blog carnivals

Have you heard of blog carnivals? I know I kept reading about them and how they could help your blog to gain traffic but I never knew anything more about them. So I did some digging around and found some information on them. And I have now be using them for some time. Basically they are a [...]

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How to Submit to the Search Engines

What was the first thing I did to promote my case study blog? There are hundreds if not thousands of search engines although you wouldn’t really know it because most people are only concerned with 3, Google, MSN and Yahoo. So the very first thing on my list once I had got a few articles on the [...]

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Promoting Your Blog with Blog Directories, Should You Do It or Not!

This is the first in a series of follow on articles from this one: How I plan to get traffic to my blog. Promoting your blog with blog directories is one of those techniques that can cause a bit of controversy, should I do it or not? It is a tedious job and can take a long, [...]

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How I Plan to get Traffic to my Blog

After writing the 3 month case study review for The Photographer Blog when I said my aim for the blog over the next 3 months was to grow it’s traffic, I thought I would look at how I am going to try and do that. And this really leads on (part 2) from the post [...]

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Top 5 Market Research Tools

Market Research After choosing photography as my blog topic for the blog case study, the next step is to do some market research on the niche. That is easier said than done due to all the different techniques and services that are available for market research. Market research is essential for me to learn about my [...]

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Who Else Wants to Read 4 Great Articles?

4 of the Best! (If you include mine then it’s 5, but that could be me being biased!) I thought I’d just let you know about some interesting articles that I came across while submitting to blog carnivals. I think blog carnivals are the best places to find other blogs in your niche that are full [...]

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It’s All Women Blog Carnival Time Again!

Just a quickie to say that it’s All Women Blogging Carnival time again and this week it is hosted at the RedSultana Blog. I submitted my ‘free report to download’ post. I don’t know about you but I did get caught out a couple of weeks ago by the new format change (I was on holiday [...]

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