How to Blog

What is “Blog Branding?” Doesn’t the phrase “Blog Branding” inspire visions of branding irons, big billboards, or people running around in t-shirts with your blog name on them? Of course, it isn’t any of these things, and yet in a way it kinda is. It took me a little while to understand what ‘branding your blog’ meant, so I’m not judging if you don’t get it either. Examples such as …

Did you hear the  one about the blogger who sat down to write about “Writing” and had writer’s block? (What? You think I’m kidding?) I finally realized my dilemma: There’s a gosh-darn huge amount of gosh-darn GOOD information on writing better content, y’all. The cup of knowledge overflows in copious goodness. So why the heck would y’all want to take MY advice? I mean, other than the fact that I …

If you’ve been blogging for any length of time, you know it is NOT true that “if you blog it, they will come.” And yet, many new bloggers often expect just that. So if writing alone isn’t enough to bring in the masses, what is? What are your traffic goals for your blog? It goes without saying that your goals will affect your results, but if you haven’t really hashed …