10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read at Performancing

I wanted to share this link to Performancing for their article, “10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once).

This little article holds some very very useful information for bloggers that are looking to improve their blogs or their blog effectiveness.  Those are all things we encourage and I hope you will benefit from them.

Here’s a run down of the titles

1. How to Write Magnetic Headlines
2. How Can 10 Simple Articles Change Your Life
3. Scannable Content
4. 10 Killer Post Ideas
5. 7 Steps to Being Recognized as an Expert
6. Converting One off Visitors to your Blog into Regular Readers
7. 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post with a Bang
8. The Art of Linkbaiting
9. Before You Begin Blogging: A few things you should know
10. 5 Surefire Steps to Increase Readership 300% (or more)

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5 Responses to “10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read at Performancing”

1. Elizabeth said on July 19th, 2007 at 9:56 am:

   That might possibly be the best ten articles about blogging I have ever seen. Thank you for the link.

2. brettbum said on July 19th, 2007 at 10:15 am:

   Yes, I agree.

   If any of us can do half of those things, even 2 or 3 per month, we will all be much more successful.

3. Erika said on July 19th, 2007 at 12:14 pm:

   I love the write-up and I find it inspirational. He talks about - and not just he - but other experts talk about a blog having a topic. (What is your blog about?) In other words, you have a blog about photography - that’s all the blog is about. This is probably the best way.

   My problem is, I have so many interests, so many opinions about so many things, I tried to put it all in one blog and it’s not working. My traffic is non-existent.

   Is there help for someone like me? How many blogs should I be running and should I really host them myself? Is it better to have WordPress do the hosting?

4. brettbum said on July 19th, 2007 at 9:07 pm:

   I think it definitely helps your readers if you split some of your interests (not all but the serious ones) into different blogs.

   Its easy for you to understand your own complexity, but not always easy for an existing reader and even tougher for a new reader. Setting up multiple blogs helps people to get in synch with just one side of who you are, get to know you a little bit and then every now and then you can drop a link to one of your other blogs and let them in on the little secret that your are multi-faceted and even more interesting than they originally thought!

   That gives them some more to discover and explore. Makes you a little more mysterious in a good way. Helps you benefit from the natural curiosity in most people without confusing people with a complex undecipherable mystery up front.

   As to hosting, I personally originally started with several blogspot blogs, some of which I keep up today. I later added a couple sub domains on my business site. Then I took the bigger plunge and leased some virtual server space.

   I did this for 2 reasons. 1. I had a couple clients that I did web design work for and I needed to be able to manage their hosting plans for them directly. 2. PayPerPost told all the posties to go out and set up lots of niche blogs on different categories. So I did.

   The trick is to setup enough blogs to keep yourself writing with out getting your writing soul stretched too thin.

   When we write paid ops on a blog, we tend to write a lot of articles within a weeks period of time, but many bloggers and blog readers think that 5 posts a week is ‘a lot’. Well lots of us paid blogger types, write 5 posts or more in a day on a single blog.

   If we spread out and cover more individual sites, we can write the same amount but cover more websites in more niches and pull in more traffic.

   This also makes it possible to earn more with TextLinkAds also.

   There’s no one size fit all solution for everyone at the end of the day, but setting up additional niche blogs is definitely one way to go. Among other things, if you get tired of the blog, you can always sell your the blog and the domain name for a few hundred dollars, maybe even a couple thousand depending on how well developed it is. So you can earn money from week to week blogging, month to month with textlinkads and a little adsense, and a year or two down the road you can sell your blog if you get tired of it or develop interests somewhere else.

   Performancing is a good community for listing blogs, in addition to Sedo, which is much larger.

5. Erika said on August 27th, 2007 at 12:23 pm:

   Wow, you are a wealth of information. I suspected I had to change something.

   Thanks for your input.

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