If you were online last week, chances are you saw something about the Internet Blackout Protest. With the participation of major sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Google, It even made prime time TV news across the world. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) are the bills being considered by Congress in the US this month, and for the first time ever, internet users stood up with a singular voice and made themselves heard. Here’s what happened…
BlogEngage is a blogging community which has been mentioned multiple times here on Bloggers Alchemy, and with good reason. Successful blogging rests upon quality content, strong foundations and design, networking, and effective blog post promotion. BlogEngage has a role to play in at least two of those…
I’m not usually one to get political here at Blogger’s Alchemy – in fact, I deliberately keep political opinion off my blog. But this is an exception… The Internet is Under Attack. If you’re a blogger, webmaster, or free user of the internet, turn off all distraction right now and focus on the information I’m going to share here.
Images add so much to a blog post. A picture really does say a thousand words – and it can bring in traffic too. This post shares some excellent resources for finding fantastic images to use in your blog posts, and shares some simple tips for picking the perfect picture for the job every time.
Your blogging future depends on the amount of traffic you receive, which may well depend upon your search engine rankings. If your blog is properly Search Engine Optimized (SEO’d), then you’ll rank higher in the search engines and ultimately the increase your blog traffic significantly…
New Year is transition time. Transition from one year to another, marking another cycle completed in our little blue-green planet’s journey around the sun. The world is changing, the blogosphere is changing, and Blogger’s Alchemy is changing with it (mutating even…) This post aims to round up, sum up, and summarize some key pieces of the Blogger’s Alchemy puzzle from 2011, and share something of the direction it’s moving in as we head into 2012 – the Year (no doubt) of the Blogger…
Blog Post Length is an eternally open debate, there’s no final answer as to exactly how long a blog post should be. Ultimately, each blogger must answer this question for themselves. These guidelines will help you find suitable post length for your blog, and each post you produce.
These blog writing tips are based upon observing the way people read blogs. Use them to deliver more value with more impact in your blog posts. Experiment with them, combine them, play with them and learn to write more effectively for your readership – more people will read your posts, comment, share, subscribe, sign up and return to read your blog again.
Every successful blog is built upon on a consistent flow of good blog topics to keep their content fresh and interesting, readers coming and returning, buzz happening, and income coming in (kerrrching!). Without relevant topics to post about and interesting subjects to tackle, all those elements tend to dry up like a desert wasteland (cue tumbleweed). BUT fear not! Blogger’s Alchemy is here with a fool proof set of questions to help you identify good (even great!) blog topics whenever you run out of ideas.
There’s a world of different avenues to successful blogging. You could go the ‘massive value posts’ direction. Or the ‘regular bite sized blog tips’ way. Or a combo of both. Direct and informative, chatty and entertaining… It’s up to you. But whatever you’re trying to achieve with your blog, there’s a few things which you should diligently avoid at all costs – unless of course you’re keen on trampling your blogging credibility into the dirt (I’m sure you’re not…)
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