• Posts bookmarked on: Blog Tips - ProBlogger

  • 20 January 2009

    • 14:01

      How to Redesign a Blog: Redesigning DPS

      In this post (the first of two) Web Designer Matt Brett shares some reflections and tips from the process of redesigning my Digital Photography School blog. When I was approached by Darren to take on the task of not only redesigning, but expanding his Digital Photography Schoolblog, I was thrilled and a little intimidated. I knew [...]

  • 16 January 2009

    • 23:00

      How to Use Facebook to Promote Your Blog

      In this guest post, Steve Schwartz, a professional LSAT tutor, discusses how he has used Facebook to promote his Ace the LSAT blog and create a community of readers. Your blog’s readers probably have Facebook profiles already, and making your own Facebook profile is easy enough. Aside from allowing you to create a profile and connect [...]

  • 27 December 2008

    • 14:23

      How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility

      Many bloggers are upgrading versions in WordPress at the moment to 2.7 - so when Hendry Lee offered to write this guide to doing it I thought it’d be useful to many. Enjoy. WordPress 2.7 codename “Coltrane” has been released earlier in December 2008, with the most significant change being the new Dashboard interface. A lot [...]

  • 18 December 2008

    • 14:01

      Develop a Twitter Landing Page

      Over the weekend I created a landing page for my Twitter account. I got the idea off Laura Fitton (@pistachio) when a guest post on TwiTip highlighted what she’d done with her own Who is @pistachio landing page. What is a Twitter Landing Page? In short - a twitter landing page is a page on your blog or [...]

  • 15 December 2008

    • 20:35

      9 SEO Plugins Every Wordpress Blog Should Have

      Do you want to increase the search engine ranking of your WordPress blog? Check out these 9 SEO WordPress plugins that Shawn Jooste from Elite Blogger has pulled together for us. The best place by far to find traffic is from search engines. The art of Search Engine Optimization is often very daunting for new bloggers. [...]
    • 14:09

      What I learned about Blogging from the U.S. Presidential Election

      In today’s guest post Trisha from Ideas for Women shares some lessons that she learned from the US Presidential Election. I followed this year’s U.S. presidential election pretty closely on T.V. and also volunteered for one of the candidates. Over I time I began to notice some parallels between running a successful campaign and a successful [...]

  • 05 November 2008

    • 14:09

      10 WordPress Plugins for New Blogs

      Over the weekend I set up and launched my new Twitter Tips Blog - TwiTip. Since announcing the launch of TwiTip here on ProBlogger I’ve been asked quite a few times about what WordPress plugins I’ve installed to enhance and add features to the blog. I still need to add a few more but so far I’ve [...]

  • 14 October 2008

    • 20:11

      A Guide to Corporate Blogging

      Today Reem Abeidoh looks at Corporate blogging and shares 13 Steps Fortune 500 companies take to Create a Blog. Image by iDream_in_Infrared In order to maintain a competitive edge, corporations are increasingly looking for opportunities to make them stand out. Although traditional media serves as a solid medium that disperses company messaging to the world, the [...]

  • 11 October 2008

    • 14:21

      Should Blogs Have Comments?

      Should blogs have comments? It is a question that comes up fairly regularly in blogging circles and one that different bloggers take different approaches to. Most bloggers have them - they’re on by default when they set their blog up and they never switch them off. They see the comments as adding a lot to the blog [...]