7 Tips to Increase Your Blog Comments
Does your blog put out a welcome mat for comments? Would you like more interaction on your blog?
There are lots of blogs today, which means that people have many places where they can go to learn new things.
If you don’t make people feel welcome, they may read and dash without leaving a comment.
Here are 7 ways you can encourage your readers to leave comments.
Tip #1: Check your blog comments settings
Do you make it easy for someone to leave a comment? 
Top 7 Reasons Blogs Fail and What to Do About It
Why do some blogs thrive and others fail? Do you blog? Have you been working hard to build a loyal following for your business, but it’s just not happening for you?
The good news is you’re not alone. Most blogs don’t get the traffic or the attention they desire.
What follows are the top mistakes made by bloggers (and how to fix them).
Mistake #1: It’s all about you
When I first started blogging, this discovery surprised me: Nobody gives a hoot about my products, my services or me. This also means most people don’t care about you, your company or your products, either.
21 Dangerous Blogging Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)
Are you struggling to get the results you want from your blog?
Blogging can be complicated, so you want to make sure you’re doing things right.
We asked our Social Media Examiner writers “What’s the single biggest mistake bloggers make and why?” Read their answers carefully to see how you can improve your blogging to get the results you want.
11 Ways to Find New Content for Your Social Strategy
Is your business running out of content ideas?
Content is the fuel for your social media rocket ship and the foundation of any solid presence in the social sphere. Your content cannot be everything to everyone; however, you can be relevant and provide value to your target market.
Generating compelling content that people want to consume can increase your website traffic and help you attract and retain a dedicated following. In order to produce quality content, you’re going to need a good source of raw material to continually draw upon.
Here are 11 proven tactics to help you never run out of content:
How to Grow a Blog Community With Social Media
In this video I interview Darren Rowse, co-author of the best-selling book ProBlogger and founder of the popular blog ProBlogger. You’ll find out how blogging has changed and what you need to know to adapt to these changes.
Darren talks about how he uses social media to build stronger relationships with his blog audience and gives you tips to find which social media platforms work best for your blog.
Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.
17 Ways to Grow Your Blog From Top Bloggers
Do you want to grow your blog? Are you looking for new ways to attract and retain more readers? We asked the finalists of our Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest for their best tips on how to grow your list of blog subscribers.
Here are their best tips. I think you’ll agree there are some excellent ideas here.
#1: Be Active in Other Communities First
Here’s what Mitch Joel, author of Six Pixels of Separation and the blog at Twist Image, recommends:
How to Create Compelling Blog Content
In this video I interview Chris Garrett, co-author of the best-selling book Problogger and the popular blog ChrisG.com.
Chris shares the foundation pieces you need to build a successful business blog and explains how to create killer content to engage your audience and get the results you want from blogging. Chris also talks about the role blogs play within a good social media ecosystem and how this helps you connect with your audience.
Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.
26 Ways to Enhance Your Blog Content
Do you blog? Are you looking for actionable tips to improve your content?
What follows are 26 tips, from A-Z, related to the craft of blog writing and a number of critical factors that will help to ensure the production of high-quality posts.
#1: Attribution
“Links are the currency of the web,” writes Jonathan Bailey. “If you use someone else’s content, whether licensed directly or through fair use, it’s important to be sure to provide a clickable link to the original site if at all possible. This not only helps visitors to your site find the original work, but it also provides SEO benefits for the creator of the content and guards against your site being mistaken by the search engines as the original work.”
8 Keys to Blogging Success
Are you considering starting a blog? Maybe your blog isn’t working for you? Blogging is one of the hottest ways to build business online.
It’s changed considerably from the early days of “dear diary” and “angry conspiracy theorist” blogs. Even Time Magazine has started honoring their “Best Blogs” of the year.
Here are eight questions to ask–keys if you will to blogging success.
#1: Are You Passionate?
In The New Rules of Marketing & PR, David Meerman Scott urges would-be bloggers to “be passionate about and want the world to know about” their subject. If you need copy written for a corporate blog and you don’t have a fire in your belly for the subject matter, delegate to or hire someone who does.
7 Blogging Tips From Top Bloggers
If you’ve been following the boom of social media marketing, you already know blogging is an essential ingredient to any social media strategy. Are you unsure about what to write, when to post, how to grow your subscribers and how to keep them coming back for more? If you’ve had any of these concerns, you’re not alone!
To help you take your blog to an entirely new level, here are 7 tips from the best-of-the-best in the blogging and social media arena. Every expert below has created a thriving blog with tens of thousands of subscribers who engage with their posts on a regular basis. If you want to know how to create and grow a successful blog, make sure to take notes (and take action)!
