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Blogging Expertise

Blogging Expertise is a really useful blog about blogging, writing and WordPress. Start by browsing categories such as “Best Practices” and “Tips”.

Top 5 Group Writing Project part 3

Here comes my third (and last) selection of blog posts from “Top 5 - Group Writing Project - Full Submission List”:
Five essential skills for blogging success
Five Things I Hate About Blogging
My Blogging Swiss Army Knife: Top 5 Essential Sites For Bloggers
Top 5 Blogging Myths
Top 5 Ways To Stop Being a Perfectionist
Top 5 Tips for Achieving [...]

Top 5 Group Writing Project part 2

I have continued browsing “Top 5 - Group Writing Project - Full Submission List” and found more blog posts that I like. Here is a second batch:
5 things I wish all bloggers did
Top 5 Tips Writing for Blogs
Top 5 tips for beating blogger’s block
Top 5 Reasons for Multiple Blogs Under a Single Domain
Five things to [...]

Top 5 Group Writing Project

The Top 5 - Group Writing Project got an impressive 893 submissions. My own post got number 701.
I just picked some random posts whose title sounded interesting and found these ones, all well worth reading:
Top 5 Ways To Identify a Bad Listener
Five ways Shiatsu has changed my life
Five Hard Truths of Freelance Writing
5 Top [...]

Top 5 things I look for in a blog

These are the top 5 things I look for in a blog.
1. Looks and style.
I prefer a clean look where content is king. Too much clutter drives me away. Ads can bring home money to the site but if the ads are all over the place and are more prominent than the content then something [...]

Writer’s block

You sit there and just can not get started, nothing pops up that feels worth writing about…. then remember you are not alone. Wikipedia defines it like this:
Writer’s block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity.
Calvin Innes has a cartoon that shows [...]

Recommendations to a blogger, part 2

Part one is Top three things I recommend a blogger.
Daniel Sweet from FRACAT gives his best blogging tips:

I believe personality is vitally important. There are a *lot* of places to get information on the web. Being who people *want* to get that information from is a vital differentiator.
Plug-ins are great (and I [...]

Top three things I recommend a blogger

There is an interesting discussion over at LinkedinBloggers about the top three things you recommend a blogger. I got good recommendations and it made me think about what is important for me in a blog.
Jason Alba from JibberJobber started out with this list:

keeping it clean - don’t make the readers search for your content, one [...]

Copyblogger

Copyblogger has copywriting tips for blog, email, and RSS marketing.
I have added Copyblogger to my blogroll, that is blogs I like a lot and follow. The easiest way to explain why is to take a piece from the About page:
Content drives the Internet, and the quality of your writing will determine not only how well [...]

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