Build a 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 [...]

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, [...]

Yes a proper book with pages!
Yesterday I heard about a new book about blogging, the Problogger book – secrets of blogging your way to a six figure income, now that is quite a claim.
But you couldn’t have two better authors showing you the way, the book has been written by Darren Rowse of Problogger and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Major Update
Wordpress 2.5 has just been released for the Wordpress.org blogging platform. And it looks to be a major upgrade to version 2.3.3 with lots of new features. You can read about them here.
If you would like to watch a 4 minute screencast showing you more then here’s the link. I really like the sound [...]

It is my first blogging birthday, I have been properly blogging now for a year on this blog in one shape or form. Although it’s not Build a Blog’s birthday because this blog didn’t start until July last year. My first serious blog was on the Blogger platform and was called Create Blogs, I just [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I asked the other day in an article if anyone was using social networking sites. Well I have started to use them, in particular StumbleUpon, and here’s what I think about it:
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking site similar to del.icio.us and lets you stumble your favorite content whether it is blog posts, websites, video’s, photos, [...]