Mar
05

Blog Food Series: 4 Tips for whipping up fresh content

food prep

Tuesday we fed your blog with some simple tips that will help you blog with passion. Wednesday, we discussed the importance of creating a remarkable blog personality. Thursday we threw in some tips for adding the unexpected to your posts and today, we’ll combine them all together and stir up the blog mix with some…
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Mar
04

The Official Iron Blogger Contest

A slice of the unexpected to take your blog to a new level Update: This contest is closed Inspired by today’s blog post Secret Blog Ingredient #3 and further encouraged by another great blogger, I’ve decided to make it official and invite all who are brave enough to enter. In the spirit of one of…
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Mar
04

Blog Food Series: Secret Blog Ingredient #3

Chef standing

I love watching challenges on Food Network. I especially enjoy the Iron Chef. Each chef is given some strange ingredient to use to create something new and delicious. This causes them to stretch their imagination.  They have to come up with an impressive dish with ingredients that many people believe are unappetizing and turn it…
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Mar
03

Blog Food Series: Secret Blog Ingredient #2

Food prep

Yesterday’s post Blog Food: A Recipe for a Better Blog I talked about an essential blog ingredient: passion and discussed ways to measure whether or not you have enough for your chosen blog niche and what to do to reignite fizzling passion. Passion is a necessary component, but it won’t matter how much passion you…
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Mar
02

Blog Food: A recipe for a better blog series

chef

Is your blog starving to death? Are you not providing your blog the basic essentials it needs to stay healthy? The rest of this week, I’ll be bringing you tasty morsels of food for your blog. Each day I will reveal a different ingredient that will help you cook up a better blog. This is…
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Mar
01

Blogger must reads – Weekly Link List (20 links)

The Mr. Rogers Guide to Blogging from the Heart 22 Blogs accepting guest posts only the best ones How to take your blog to the next level

Feb
25

5 ideas for an engaging video blog post

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In yesterday’s post I gave you some ideas for blog post alternatives that you can use when you just don’t have time to write.   One of those suggestions included posting a Youtube video,  but what exactly should you make a video about? If you’re already boring people with your written content you certainly don’t…
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Feb
24

How to ensure your blog is never found

Man in a whole

Another tip for your blog Here’s the one and only tip you’ll ever need if you don’t want your blog to be discovered by Google or anyone else for that matter …are you ready? Tip: Stop writing That’s it, that’s all you have to do if you’d prefer to keep your blog hidden under a…
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Feb
23

Original blog content vs. original ideas

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Does it ever seem like almost every other site is discussing the same topic as you are? It’s like the same group of topics are circulating from one blog to another, and we’re just passing them around like hot potatoes. You write something you thought was a light-bulb moment for you, only to discover, another…
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Feb
22

Not-so-big Weekly Link List for Bloggers (30 Links)

Welcome to the weekly edition of all the cool stuff I’ve browsed in the last week related to the blogging and social media niche. What makes the ultimate blog post? The Good Cook Guide To SEO: Baking To Perfection Get Over yourself – Guest Post

Feb
19

1 Tip that will help you blog better

Blog Better

Are you ready for one tip that will help you blog better? Here it is: Stop blogging and create some real world experiences Stop blogging? Did I say that?

Feb
18

5 blogging niche ideas you should run from

no garden niche

You’re a jack of all trades. You’ve got tons of hobbies and plenty information that you’d like to share with the world – so why not start a blog? Of course, it sounds like a brilliant idea. You’re ambitious so you make a list of all the niches you know a little bit about and…
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