200+ Articles for Bloggers

Writers are embracing blogging in greater and greater numbers. It is a great way to get your voice heard and even make a little money. The beauty of blogging is the low initial investment. That means anyone can give it a try. That is also the problem with blogging. There are plenty of people out there who don’t know what they are doing. If you want to blog well, here is an extensive guide to articles about blogging. If you manage to get through all of these, you might just stand a chance of becoming a successful blogger. Please note, many of these links come from Problogger.net’s recent 31 Days to Building a Better Blog. I sorted them, prettied them up and added more.

Blogging For Beginners

• Blogging as a Publishing Business: What is a blog?
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Who should try it?
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: How Much Money Can You Make?
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Choosing a Service Provider
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Personal Blogs (Diaries)
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Political Blogs
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Business Blogs
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Subject Matter Blogs
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Photo Blogs
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Academic Blogs
• Blogging as a Publishing Business: Hybrid Blogs
• 23 Questions for Prospective Bloggers - Is a Blog Right for You? – Darren Rowse — Problogger
• 2 Things a Blogger should do before launching a Blog by Tyler Michael Jonsson
• 5 Copywriting Tips That Will Make Reading Your Web Site/Blog Easier For Visitors by Melissa Fach
• 7 Encouraging Must-Read Articles For The Blogger Just Starting Out by Rory at Clean Cut Blog
• Beware Of Letting Your Articles Go Cold In The Draft by Clean Cut Blog
• Blog Wrap Ups Made Simple And Easy.. by Snoskred
• Bloggers! If you don’t FIRE UP your HEADLINES, your blog will definitely be a LOSER! by Mark
• Do you ask these questions before writing for your audience by Ashish
• Get Your Own Domain and Web Hosting Now! by Sly from Slyvisions.com
• How to be or become a good Blogger by Kishore Reddy
• Launching a new blog by Simon
• One Week to a Professional Blog by Simon
• Should I start a new Blog? by Tejvan Pettinger
• The First Thing To Do After You Publish Your Blog by Ankesh Kothari
• Top Tips for Beginning Bloggers by SingForHim
• What I’ve learned in my first year of blogging by Ross McKillop
• Where to Start? by Suzanne Atkinson
• What You Can Learn From New Bloggers by Sly from Slyvisions.com
• Why You Should Get Your Own Domain by Mun
• Writing sponsored content -An eye opener! by Ramanujam

Mistakes

• 3 mistakes I WANT to make as a beginner blogger by Blogmunch
• 5 Blogging Mistakes I Keep Doing And Haven’t Fixed Yet by Dennis Bjørn Petersen
• Blogging Mistakes to Avoid by Simon
• Don’t be a Skeptical blogger by Costa
• Don’t be too personal in your blog. by Eklavya
• Don’t Block Firefox! by Matt Harzewski
• Don’t start a blog unless you can be committed to it. by Stephanie Cockerl
• Redirecting with Alexa is a BAD Linking Strategy by RT Cunningham
• Seven Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Business Blog by Krishna De
• Warning: Do not ’steal the lead’ by Glenn Abel

Writing / Content

• 10 Easy Ways To Improve Your Blog Writing. by Snoskred
• 10 Ways to find more writing time by Jo
• 12 First Rules Of Writing by Clean Cut Blog
• 2 Seconds to Convince by Dan Cole
• 5 Easy Ways to Make Your Posts More Interesting by Erik Karey
• 7 Compelling Reasons Why Your Headlines Need To LEAP Off The Page by Clean Cut Blog
• 7 Tips for Good Content by Todd Dow
• Battling Writer’s Block by Jeri Merrell
• Be bold when you blog! by Bob Walsh
• Bloggers Writers Should Read — J.C.
• Connecting Words by RT Cunningham
• Creating Signature Content by Skellie
• Experts Rule The Blogophere by Jon
• Express Blogging by Simon
• Finding blog post ideas by Jo
• First Impressions Lead To a Lasting Loyal Readership by Sly
• Give Your Readers Content They Want! by Adam Dempsey
• How To Make a Better Post by Mon Macutay
• How To Make Your Post Stand Out by PabloPabla
• How to Remember All Those Great Ideas by Matt Wolfe
• How to Scientifically Identify Content that’s Perfect for your Blog by Simon
• How to stay in The Zone and keep wowing your readers with spectacular articles! by Mark
• How To Write 50 Articles Per Week by Tejvan Pettinger
• How To Write A Blog Post Hung-over by Matt Jones
• How to write Advice Posts by Todd Dow
• How to Write an Internal Market Positioning Statement by Mason Hipp
• How To Write Off-Topic Without Losing Readers by Ben Jamin
• How to write Story Posts by Todd Dow
• How To Write When You Can’t by Kathryn
• Improve Your Writing With A Simple Exercise by Steven Bradley
• Idea For Posting by Syiru
• Invigorate your readers with passionate and energetic articles! by Mark
• Is Your Blog Content King? by PabloPabla
• Is your blog good enough? by Andrew Boyd
• Interlink Archived Post Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• My Cure For Bloggers Block by Matt Jones
• Quick Writing Tips to Improve your Blog Posts by Tejvan Pettinger
• Sexy Reviews Bring Readers by The Fair Review Project
• Sharing the Pain: Problems and solutions are ideal content by Andrew Boyd
• That’s one KILLER headline, but don’t leave your readers hanging with a LAME opening paragraph! by Mark
• The Perfect Title: Try these Enticing Titles by Tejvan Pettinger

Promotion

• 10 Tips for Making Your Blog Posts More del.icio.us by Steven Snell
• 10 Tips on How to Start Your Own Blog Contest by Mon Macutay
• 10 Ways to Promote your Blog Site Offline by Ant
• 23 Marketing Tips Online and Offline - Tip #1 by JerkyBeef - TheBeefJerkyBlog.com
• 3 Top Tricks for Driving Readers to Your Blog by Craig Huggart
• A Guide to Promoting Your Blog Through Guest Posts by Steven Snell
• Blog Carnivals, Start to Finish by Jordan (MamaBlogga)
• Blog Hack: Link to New Blogs and Get More Readers by Ben Yoskovitz
• Blog Naming — Give Your Blog a “Reasonable Name” by Ted Demopoulos, The Blogging for Business Guy
• Blog Naming Tips by Ted Demopoulos
• Budget Promotion Part Three: Blogs by Genesis Davies
• Building a Support System via Guest Blogging by Pearl
• Building your brand, one feed at a time by Bob Walsh
• Bumper Sticker Magic (Blog Marketing Tip #2) by JerkyBeef
• Case Study in Internet Marketing: My Accountant by Suzanne Atkinson
• Contests Anyone Can Do - Promoting Blogs & Websites by Rob Malon
• Email and Blog Branding by Jeri Merrell
• Fast Track To Fame: Blogging Big Blogging Double by Rob Malon
• Guest Blogging Strategy - Overcoming the Barriers to Guest Blogging by Ankesh Kothari
• Hansel and Gretel Link-building by Skellie
• How I Generated Over 3,000 Backlinks In 6 Weeks! by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
• How to Attract Readers When Your Customers Don’t Read Blogs by Brad Shorr
• Got Blog? Grow it With Some Special Spice… by Fred Black
• How to get 50x or more the traffic? by Emad Ibrahim
• How to get Repeat Visitors to your Blog by Rose DesRochers
• How to Get to The Top by Dan Cole
• How to have 250,000 blog visitors a day by Trevor Hampel
• How to Increase Alexa Rankings by Sly from Slyvisions.com
• How To Increase Your Blog Traffic With Social Bookmarks by Jason
• How to Increase Your Traffic?? by syiru
• How to market your blog and increase your readership by Rose DesRochers
• How to run a successful blog contest. by Joshua
• How to participate in blog carnivals by Trevor Hampel
• How to quickly get 100+ more readers to your blog by Ted Demopoulos
• Improving popularity of your blog by Anuj Seth
• Increase readership to your blog 20 percent in a month by diversifying your traffic!! by Mark
• Increase Traffic By Fixing Broken Links by Dean Taplin
• Increasing Traffic - Exploring The Archives by Chris Lodge
• How To Use Netvibes To Market Your Blog Or Business by Aaron
• Is Your Blog Receiving All The Traffic It Could? by Don
• Link Train or Link Spam? by Tom Wilson
• Links, Backlinks, Pingbacks and Trackbacks - What Exactly Are They? by pearl
• Market Your Identity / Not Your Product by Jason MoneySpace
• Marketing Is All In The Details by Mason Hipp
• Network Marketing Online Effectively-LOGO by Jason MoneySpace
• Networking In Your Niche: 4 Steps To Breaking The Ice by Matt Jones
• Promote Your Blog Offline Tip #1 by JerkyBeef - TheBeefJerkyBlog.com
• Run a StumbleUpon Campaign for Your Blog Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• So you’re desperate for traffic? You’ll NEVER receive it unless you participate in forums! by Mark
• Social Bookmarking 101 - Increase Traffic Decrease Effort by Rob Malon
• Stumbleupon Brings More Traffic Than Problogger by pablopabla
• Technorati: How to Get Traffic by Lucia
• Use Article Marketing to Attract New Readers to Your Blog by Rich Brooks
• Use business cards to publicize your blog by Jim
• Use your Blog Comment Name for Personal Branding by Ted Demopoulos, The Blogging for Business Guy
• Want a Technorati Boost for your Blog by Jake Rinard
• Ways to Radically Increase Traffic to Your Blog by Wendy Maynard
• Ways to Increase Your Inbound Links by T.Pettinger
• Why one Blog Carnival is Better than the Rest by jim bozs

Search Engines

• 10 Fundamentals Of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by Bryan @ OneMansGoal.Com
• 3 Areas You Cannot Ignore When Optimizing For Local Search by Melissa Fach- SEOAware.com
• 3 ways to Wii Your Way to the Top of Google by Jake
• Ranking in the SERPs - Part 1 - Keyword Selection by Erik Karey
• Ranking in the SERPs - Part 2 - Influential Factors by Erik Karey
• Ranking in the SERPs - Part 3 - Tips & Techniques by Erik Karey
• Read if you don’t want to get penalized by Google by Vijay Shinde
• SEO Tip: Use Dashes To Separate Words In a URL by Sly from Slyvisions.com
• Top 10 basic SEO Tips to build high traffic web site by Vijay Shinde
• Top 10 Ways To Improve Your Google PageRank by Salman Siddiqui
• Use The Power Of The Slug To Increase Search Engine Traffic by Chris Lodge
• Use the Search Function to Look for the Post you want to Interlink. by Costa
• Ways to Increase PageRank: Tip No.1 by Matt Jones
• Ways to Increase PageRank: Tip No.2 by Matt Jones
• Ways To Increase PageRank: Tip No.3 by Matt Jones
• Ways To Increase PageRank: Tip No.4 + 5 by Matt Jones
• Website Traffic and META Tags by Jason MoneySpace with guest author Kyle Watters
• Word Your Article Correctly - S.E.O. Search Engine Optimization by Jason MoneySpace

Software / Tools

• 10 Essential Blogging Tools by John Jantsch
• 10 Must Have Softwares For A Blogger by Karthik Kastury
• 12 Firefox Addons that Make Blogging easy by Karthik Kastury
• 15 Benefits and Limitations of Wordpress.com Blogs by pchere
• 3 Tips to Hack Proof and Hijack Proof your Blog by Ted Demopoulos
• 40+ Firefox Add-ons for High Speed Blogging by ky1008
• 5 Crucial, but Invisible, Wordpress Plugins by Simon
• 5 OSX Automator Actions for Bloggers & Developers by Simon
• A Blogger on Blogging - Chapter 2: Wordpress Plugins for Faster Blogging by Vlad H
• Blogging Quick Tips by Darren Rowse
• CSS Towers Logo by Dan Cole
• daiOptimizing Wordpress for Best Performance by Karthik Kastury
• Greasemonkey scripts to rock GMail by Sumesh
• How to install WordPress manually! by Shawn DesRochers
• How To Install WordPress with Fantastico by Shawn DesRochers
• Is Domination of WordPress and FeedBurner good? by Sumesh
• Is Twitter shifting blogging to a new phase? by Sue Waters
• Most essential plugins for your wordpress blog. by Eklavya
• Robots.txt Files: Fence off Sections of Your Web Site from Search Engines. by Fred Black
• Simple Facebook Adjustements to Get Traffic by Ian Fernando
• Simple fix for Windows Live Writer hangups by Sumesh
• The Business Blogging Toolset: 100 Resources for Entrepreneur-Writers by Bootstrapper
• Top 3 Best Free Blogging Platforms by Ramkarthik
• Top 5 essential WordPress Plugins by David Airey
• Top Wordpress plugins that make your blog smart by Vijay
• Why Does Technorati Mock Me? by Sue Waters
• Wordpress : Turning 404 not found random visitors to blog readers by Fili
• WordPress Bloggers: Fix Your Incoming Pings With WP_PingPreserver by RT Cunningham

Design / Analysis

• 10 Steps to Publishing a Professional Looking Post…first time by Karen
• 10 Ways To Show Your Readers You Hate Them by Wild Bill
• 47 CSS Tutorials, Techniques, and Resources by Matt Harzewski
• 7.5 Reasons I Abandoned You Today by Rich Minx
• Analytics for your Blog by Anuj Seth
• Analyze Your Blog’s Competition Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Blog StartUp: Template Organization by Ian Fernando
• Building Search Engine Friendly Permalinks by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
• Choosing an avatar to represent you by Ryan McFarland
• Create a Heatmap of Where Readers Click on Your Blog
• Create a Sneeze Page and Propel Readers Deep Within Your Blog
• Creating Linked Lists for Traffic and Incoming Links by Jason Bartholme
• Debunking Popular Alexa Myths by James Yeang
• Decide on your Permalink Structure from Day 1 by Suzanne Atkinson
• Declutter Your Sidebar Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Decrease Bounce Rate - Increase Subscribers and Visit Time by Rob Malon
• Dig into Your Blog’s Statistics Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Display Testimonials on Your Blog by Jason MoneySpace
• Do not forget http:// in WordPress posts by Sumesh
• When no one is looking by Bob Walsh
• Full Posts vs. Partial Posts, on the Homepage by Michael Martin
• Get your own Blog Theme! by Anuj Seth
• How to Create a boxes logo by Dan Cole
• How to Customize the Misty Look Wordpress Theme by Ronaldo Camacho
• How to make your own logo by Dan Cole
• Improve my blog navigations by Blogmunch
• Looking for the Right Web Site Design, But Have No Clue Where to Start? by Melissa Fach- SEOAware.com
• Make That Footer Worth Reading by Dan Cole
• Make Your Most Popular Posts Sticky Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Make Your Visitors Feel Like Home by Jonathan-C. Phillips
• Must-Have Tool For Bloggers - WORDWEB: Powerful Dictionary For Windows by Rory at Clean Cut Blog
• My Article Writing Template - Effectivity in Action by Tom O’Leary
• Run a ‘First Time Reader Audit’ on your Blog
• So what’s it all About? by Bob Walsh
• Storytelling your Sneeze Page by Andrew Boyd
• The Advertiser had to Pay for My Visit to His Site - But then He Drove Me Away from his Site! by Mike Goad
• The Best Way To Earn Repeat Business by Derek Semmler
• The Crucial Ingredients of a First Impression by Michael Martin
• Too many toys is too many toys by Bob Walsh
• Track Your Blog’s Stats by Matt Harzewski
• Use a photo to engage your readers. by Bob Walsh
• What makes a Great Logo? by Dan Cole
• What Stats Should you be Interested In? by Simon
• Why Didn’t I install Google Analytics Sooner? by Sue Waters
• Why Adding Pictures Is A Good Thing by Mr. Happy
• Why You Need a Logo by Dan Cole

Revenue

• 101 Ways to Monetize Your Website or Blog by Steven Snell
• 4 EZ Ways to Get Rich by Jake
• Reasons to avoid Paid Reviews by Shrihari
• 5 Great Affiliate Programs For Your Blog by Bryan Clark
• 5 Reasons Why You Should Do Paid Reviews by Ramkarthik
• 5 Simple Tips To Increase Adsense Income by Bryan Clark
• 5 Tips on How to Make Non-Affiliate Money From Your Blog by Melissa Fach- SEOAware.com
• 5 Ways to Make Money from your Blog by Simon
• 7 Tips to Making Money through Niche Blogging by Jake Rinard
• 7 Ways to optimize AuctionAds by Scott Bird
• Adsense for Dummies by Mon Macutay (aka GM Tristan)
• Adsense Optimisation, Straight from the Horse’s Mouth by Simon
• Beat the Summer Doldrums and Make Money Blogging by Jake R
• Blogging & Your Business by Susan Payton
• Blogging for Money? Some Market Research Helps a Lot by ninja
• Earn “6 Times” More With Your AdSense Very Easily by Salman Siddiqui
• Have You Audited Your Ads Placement Within You Blog by Etienne Teo
• How are my Ads performing for my blog? by Blogmunch
• How to embed adsense add unit in left or right corner of post content by Vijay
• How to NOT make money blogging by Ryan McFarland
• Increasing Your Blog Revenue by Ian
• Make More $$$ Per Click on Your Blog Instantly by Jake from MoreMerchant.com
• Publisher Advertising Programs Roundup by Edward Dowd
• Run an Advertising Audit On Your Blog Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Search for an Affiliate Program that Fits Your Blog Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• The Role of Money in Blogging by Ahmed Bilal
• Why You Should Diversify Your Income Stream by gaman

Productivity

• 11 ways to increase your blogging output by Andrew Garrett
• 14 Ways to Come Out of the Blog Lurker Closet by Adino
• 10 Things To Do When You Have Nothing To Blog About by Sly
• 5 Practical Steps to Getting Better at Anything by Mason Hipp
• Five Ways to Increase Your Blogging Productivity by Michael Paul
• Blog Points System by Wild Bill
• 7 days tasks in one day but I am serious by Eklavya
• Blogging While On Vacation by Anne Wayman
• Do You Always Have to Blog on a Schedule? by Revenue Blogging
• Five Ways to Increase Your Blogging Productivity by Michael Paul
• Harness the power of elance.com by Joe @ Escape Job Hell
• No way to live by Bob Walsh
• Plan Your Next Week’s Posting Schedule Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Setting goals for your blog by Jordan (MamaBlogga)
• So how will your week go? by Bob Walsh

Feeds

• 10 Steps to Building a Killer Feed Collection by Skellie
• 7 Techniques that will help increase the number of your RSS Subscribers by Raiber Cristian
• Feedburner on the Page, Regardless of Stats by Michael Martin
• Give readers choice, and let FeedBurner deal with the headaches. by Bob Walsh
• Having Two RSS Feeds: Full Post Feed as well as Summary Feed by Ankesh Kothari
• How Important Are RSS Subscribers? by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
• Make it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog! by Mark
• Seven Ways to Master FeedBurner by Jordan (MamaBlogga)
• What does your blog looks like to your subscribers? by Sue Waters
• What your blog looks like in different Feed Readers by Sue Waters

Tips and Tricks

• 3 Classic Questions That Still Useful in Blogging by Ken Xu
• 31 day blog challenge by Alex Miller
• 31 Days to Build a Better Blog–Days 11-14 by Sue Waters
• 5 Days of… Different Types of Blog Posts by Todd Dow
• 5 Resources to Make YOU a Better Blogger by Simon
• 5 Simple Steps to a Better Blog by Simon
• 7 Sites with Great Blogging Tips by PabloPabla
• 9 Reasons Why I’m Cooler Than John Chow by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
• Achieve the dream - Why I am not a Full Time Blogger by Jake
• A Tip - Think About The Audience That Reads Your Blog by Mike Goad
• Bagging for Bloggers 101: John Winston Howard and Friends by Andrew Boyd
• Blogging Lesson from Tom Glavine and his 300th win by Jake
• Blogsolid - ideas for better blogging by Imar
• Causal Reasoning 101 for Bloggers by Andrew Boyd
• Cheat Sheets: Why Readers (and Social Networks) Love Them by Skellie
• Cheat Your Way to $1000 a Day by Jake Rinard
• Conduct an ‘About Page Audit’ Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Cherry pick a mega list post by Bob Walsh
• Do you have a Privacy Policy? by Suzanne Atkinson
• Everything I need to know about writing blogs I learned in high school; The FAT-P by Jim
• Grow Your Business in 15 Minutes or Less by Mason Hipp
• How blogging affects your personal development by Lola Fayemi
• How keep track of new comments on other bloggers’ posts by Sue Waters
• How to Get 6312 Subscribers to Your Business Blog in One Day by Brian Clark
• How To Be A Passionate Blogger by Wild Bill
• How to breathe new life into a dead blog by Bob Walsh
• How You Can be Just Like the Top Bloggers Today by George Manty
• Is There A Lack Of Quality In Marketing Blogs? by Steven Bradley
• More Lessons Learnt From Blogging That Apply To Other Areas Of Life (And Vice Versa) by ShineWithGrace
• Pillars support your blog success. by Bob Walsh
• Post Folding by Dan Cole
• Read More, Write Less: The Key to Blogging Growth by Chris
• Stop Cramming For A Post! by Wild Bill
• Ten tips on blogging by bharadwaj
• Thirteen Blog Clichés by Jeff Atwood
• Top 7 Features of a good blog by Todd Dow
• Using the Rule of 5 for Blogging Success by Takuin Minamoto
• Want Traffic? Create Something Unique and Valuable! by Lucia Liljegren
• What are Friday afternoons good for? by Bob Walsh
• When the Blogger’s Block Hits, STOP! by Costa
• Why do you blog? by Andrew Boyd
• You ARE A Special And Unique Snowflake: Five Ways To Prove It by Jacqueline Zenn
• You Have a Complicated Blog, And You Want It To Be Popular. Should You Change Anything? by Ashok
• You Should be FIRED … Your blog by Jake

Community

• 5 Old School Ways to Find Blog Readers and Build Community by Maria Palma
• 5 Ways to Get Noticed by A-List Bloggers by Steven Snell
• Bloggers and Readers: What has worked best for you in increasing interactivity in comments? by Mark
  
• A template for boosting subscribers through education by Simon
• Ask your readers and customers what they want! by Bob Walsh
• Be Social by Dan Cole
• Be Yourself in Blog Land: Embrace the Fanboy Within by Samir Bharadwaj
• Be Yourself in Blog Land: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships by Samir Bharadwaj
• Comment for a Review by RT Cunningham
• Comment on a Blog You’ve Never Commented On Before Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Communicating With People You Haven’t Met by Pearl
• Email a New Reader Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Email an Old Timer Reader Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Introduce Yourself to another Blogger Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• Magnetize Your Blog: Always Reply to Comments! by Jeanne Dininni
• Over-delivering to Your Readers by Ken Xu
• Personalise Messages and Stand Out by Michael Martin
• Renew Comments on Blogs Forgotten by Costa
• Search for and Join a Forum Darren Rowse — Problogger.net
• The Etiquette For Leaving Comment Links by Steven Bradley
• The Frustrations of Joining Forums without knowing anyone by Costa
• They comment, you email, they subscribe, life is good! by Bob Walsh
• Use trackbacks to build blog community by Jo Raisovich
• Want more customers? Join a online community. by Bob Walsh
• What Can Stephen Colbert Teach You about Reaching New Viewers? by Edward Dowd
• Who’s Linking to Your Blog? by Rose DesRochers

Podcasting

• 6 reasons your microISV is ready for YouTube by Bob Walsh
• Bryan Takes A Shot At Podcasting by Bryan@OneMansGoal.Com
• Get x-ray vision to see your microISV customers by Bob Walsh
• How to post audio clips to your Blogger blog by Rose DesRochers