The most difficult process of blogging – good blogging – is coming up with good ideas for new blog posts. Once you have a good idea, the next hardest thing is brainstorming for good content engineering. And this whole brainstorming thing – we will take a closer look on it today – and we’ll also pay some mind to psychology-at-work. Tip 1 – Have a specific time to brainstorm. I guess you know...

This is the final part of the “Your complete guide to RSS” series. Today we’ll look at some common and un-common mistakes that bloggers make and discuss ways in eliminating it. Do you hide your subscription options? Some bloggers tend to give that AdSense skyscraper all the room in the sidebar and tend to literally hide their subscription options. Although I accept the fact that anyone really...

Again; a million dollar question! Many believe that a blog post should be filed under one category and a lesser number believes that it causes no harm to file it under multiple categories. What’s my stance? Well, if you take a look at my blog, you’ll see that I’m on the middle of the road.Benefits of filing a blog post under single categories. Would not create duplicate entries in your categories When...

Ever wondered how you can do something more about your RSS Feed than just displaying a chickelet in the sidebar? Well, wonder no-more for today’s discussion will be solely based on that. Shoe Show ‘em your chickelet! Yes I know! This is a bit obvious. But the important thing to remember is that it is the stepping stone for your feed. Most people who read blogs are used to look for that orange button...

Since this post is going to be a bit long, I am going to break it into 2 parts; Building your Feed and Promoting your Feed! So, let’s get down and dirty folks… Building your RSS Feed with FeedBurner Ok, technically, you won’t have to build your Feed, as almost all the blogging platforms build a RSS Feed for you by default; Yes, Wordpress, Movable Pad, Blogger and almost everything else. Usually,...

Let’s get straight to the point shall we? When people subscribe to your RSS Feed, they simply get all the things that they need from your blog right to their RSS reader. And they will sometimes never visit your site again. So if subscription costs you a hell a lot of page hits, why do you bother giving out a Feed on your blog? The answer is simple. Would you have a person checking out your blog content...