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 tricks for generating content. Read more »

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 into something flavorful that stands out from all of the rest. Read more »

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 have if you don’t actually convey that in your writing.

Your blog is constantly hungry, and while it may be tempting to feed it any old thing, you might want to consider the nutritional value of what you’re putting into it. Especially in the beginning phases. A new blog is like a new baby, it requires a lot of high quality nourishment at regular intervals. Every day or so you’ve got to mix up something new for your growing blog. The good news is, though, as your blog grows and gets older it will require less frequent feedings, but even still if you don’t want to go too long between posts and run the risk of raising a malnourished creature.

So in order to create content with substance, you’ll need to stir in a healthy helping of this next ingredient. Read more »

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 a basic blog recipe that anyone can add to, enhance and personalize. The best chefs are known for taking a basic recipe and adding a twist to make it their own. That’s a lot like what bloggers must do everyday when it comes to the challenge of baking up enough fresh content to sustain a blog. Read more »