Bloggers Journal
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What can an NHL pre-season fixture teach bloggers?
Sep 3rd
Pre-season games are common in the NHL to let players get warmed up and back into the swing of things after a few months off-season. This year, the Boston Bruins feature a pre-season game with a difference. Rather than taking on another NHL team, or a top team from one of the super leagues of Europe, they are taking on a select team of the Elite Ice Hockey League of the UK – at the home arena, in Ireland, of the Belfast Giants.
This game is very much the big fish against the little fish. But what can it teach us bloggers?
Before you start – plan, plan, plan some more
Aug 29th
You’re probably reading the title and thinking, “huh?!” Well as you may know, I’ve recently changed my blog in a number of ways – most notably the domain name. I’ve received much praise for doing so, however it’s not all strawberries and cream. Of course one of the most important things to any blogger is having traffic, and traffic comes from search engines and super dooper amounts of backlinks! So what has this new domain name done for me… thrown a lot of my previous work away…
Friday Following and Twips!
Aug 27th
It’s that time of the week again, where I present my top followers, top posts and random twitter tip! As with each week, this week will also be slightly different. For this week, and this week only, I’ve got two lists of people worth following. The first – those who are regularly posting great stuff that I recommend (as per normal), and those who I’m networking particularly closely with. So without further ado *drum roll*
How accessible are you to your readers?
Aug 22nd
Recently I wrote an article about how I make my readers feel valued. In this post I wrote about methods I use to engage with my readers using some free methods. These included blog commenting, twitter, guest posting and Skype. Whilst making your readers feel welcome to your blog is very important, one point I didn’t touch upon is how accessible you are to your readers. By accessible, I mean, are you easy to get in touch with? More >
Friday Following
Aug 20th
Following on from last week, today I post my Tweeters worth following. This week will be a little different however. Rather than having a massive list of 20 or so people, I’m going to narrow it right down to a smaller group of people that I am starting to follow regularly, or that I am in regular contact with. I also feature my next Twitter tip, as well as 5 top posts to check out! More >
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