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Make them Subscribe: 6 Tips to Build Subscriptions

As much as we all love visitors to our site and watching our Google Analytics tick up, RSS subscribers, for most blogs, are more valuable. Not only are they some of your more frequent visitors, thus helping with your aforementioned traffic, but they ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, Blogging Tips,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

5 Copyright Hazards to Avoid

Most bloggers understand the importance and the value in creating original content. Most would be at least somewhat upset to their own writing used on other sites without permission or attribution and many actively track their work for misuse. However, ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, The Blog Herald,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Creative Commons,  Wordpress

5 Tips for Building Trust on Your Blog

As a blogger, you’re in a very awkward position, especially if you are a relatively new face. You are essentially asking people to trust you and take the things you say seriously even though those who visit your site know almost nothing about ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, Blogging Tips,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Google Inc.,  David Ogilvy

How Things Change: Going from Fun to Pro

I’ve been very fortunate over the past three years or so to be able to make a living off of my blog. Though it has never been directly from the site itself, always from consulting and other services related to it, it is clear that my site has always ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, The Blog Herald,  9 Nov 2009

How to Write a Review

Reviews are one of the most difficult kinds of posts bloggers commonly write. Where most can tell a story, offer instructions or even voice an opinion pretty well, writing a review that is complete, useful and reasonably short is extremely ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, Blogging Tips,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ars Technica

The Capitalization Wars

That is the rule I was taught in high school and again in college where I studied journalism. I didn’t question it at all until, more recently, I’ve begun noticing that the sites I link to don’t seem to obey the rule consistently, including many ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, Blogging Tips,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Wall Street Journal,  TechCrunch

Metrics Metered

When I set up my first Web site in 1995, Web counters were the big thing. Virtually every site had one of those (rather pointless) rolling counters at the bottom that tracked how many “hits” the page got. We were, at that point, obsessed with the idea ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, The Blog Herald,  19 Oct 2009

How a Timer Can Help Your Productivity

It is a very trying time of year for me. Between my haunted house, full-time job and Web site, not to mention the other sites I write for, it is very stressful and I can feel as if I’m pulled in dozens of directions at once. This can make getting ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, Blogging Tips,  15 Oct 2009

5 Smart Legal Steps for Your Blog

Rapidly the “Wild West” days of blogging are coming to an end legally. As blogging becomes more mainstream as a form of media, so does the legal issues that confronts it. No longer an outlier, blogs are actively competing with newspapers and even ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, The Blog Herald,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Creative Commons

My Favorite Writing Assignments

You see, when I was in high school and college, I spent a great deal of time studying journalism and creative writing, my two great passions. I was hoping at the time to get a job for a major newspaper working in their Web division, helping grow and ...

From JONATHAN BAILEY, Blogging Tips,  8 Oct 2009

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