To or Not to Ping Your Posts

Is there a point to pinging your own blog posts when referencing them in other posts? Some bloggers say yes and some bloggers say no. To weight in on the idea, here’s my ideas of why you should ping your posts and how to make those pings worthwhile for readers.

Mix It Up with Different Writing Styles

Do you ever feel like you’re writing is the same in every single blog post? Maybe it’s time to mix up that style and give your readers something new to go over. In this post, I’ll suggest 8 different styles you can use to give your writing a fresh new look with same great information you always post.

Creating Scannable Content for Readers

Our readers allow us very little time to get our message, point, or lesson across to them. Writing for ease of scanning will help to grab our reader’s attention, enable them to get through our posts faster, and keep them coming back for more. Here’s a few tips to creating scannable posts for your readers.

Blog Love #6 Top Commentators

I’ve said before that being a regular commentator on the same blog brings rewards. This week, I’ll put that into action with some blog love to this week’s top commentators on I’m Blogging That. Check out these blogs and read the great posts I found while visiting their blogs.

Building Networking Relationships

Building relationships with a new blogger can sometimes feel difficult or intimidating. So let’s break it down together to help you put your best foot forward and create relationships with other bloggers that are valuable to the both of you.

Stop Top Commentator Hijacking

Have you noticed that your Top Commentator’s list might be hijacked? There’s a small flaw in the coding for the plugin that says the only thing unique about a commentator is their name. But, is that really true when you have commentators that share the same name?

How to Market a News Breaking Post

How do you spend your time marketing your own blog posts? Sometimes it’s difficult to make our breaking posts spread like wild fire but I recently had a chance to send one of my posts out into the blogosphere and got great reactions. Here’s how I did it.