Epicenter Design

by Chris Palmer

What is the core purpose of your blog? What is the number one thing you’d like the blog to do for people?
When choosing a design or theme for wordpress, it’s important to keep in mind what the main focus is of our blog.
Typically a design process starts with a bunch of people adding what they [...]

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Try An Upcoming Article Widget

by Eric C

When my co-blogger and I started our blog–www.onviolence.com–nearly eight months ago, we wanted to blog differently. One of the first things we decided to do was to tell our readers what posts they could expect for the coming week. We call it the Upcoming Articles Widget.
On our sidebar underneath our widget buttons, we have a [...]

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Forget The Micro-Niche

by Eric C

There’s a lot of advice out there on how to blog. A lot of it sucks. Specifically, I’m thinking of the advice to specialize, specialize,  specialize. I disagree. I say forget the micro-niche.
Few popular bloggers stay on topic. I read foreign policy blogs that write about hip hop, film blogs that discuss politics, finance blogs [...]

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Don’t Write Bad Headlines

by Eric C

So I wake up this morning, open up Firefox and start scrolling through my RSS feeds. Something catches my eye. It’s a headline that seems too good to be true. I click on it, and guess what? It is.
Whether it is a piece of hyperbole (“40 ways to instantaneously get 2 million readers”) or just [...]

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How Twitter can improve you as a Blogger

by Rob

How to use twitter to effectively improve your skills as a blogger. 140 characters might be an small amount, but play an huge impact on improving your skills as a blogger.

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How Massive List Posts Can Drive High Traffic to Your Blog

by Alex

List posts are by far the easiest type of posts to get viral. They are easy to read, and usually have an enormous amount of information in them. And for whatever reason it is, people like sharing them more than a regular article you do. This is why you need to pump out these giant [...]

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Having Vision is more than Begging for Someone Else’s

by Seth W

Talking with a good blogging friend of mine led me to writing this post.  After reading his excellent article on seizing your vision, we discussed the importance of bloggers really reading his post and applying the principles of vision.  Too many readers, we decided, would most likely read the story get inspired and then leave [...]

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Using Pullquotes to Emphasize an Idea

by Alex

Lists, images, bold, italics are all ways we know to make our ideas stand out in posts. But, a greater method to really make a single idea (or just an intelligent sounding sentence) stand out from the rest of your text is by using something called a pullquote
Surprisingly I do not see many bloggers use [...]

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Fat Footer vs. Slim Footers for Marketing

by Alex

A blog’s footer is a very important part of any blog. There are a lot of great things about what a footer can do you for your blog, not only search engine optimization or design wise – but marketing.
Now it may seem obvious that right off the bat that for marketing reasons, footers that are [...]

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How to build more conversation on your blog

by Rob

Easily build conversation on your blog with the Replyme wordpress plug-in. keeping readers engaged in your community can be easier than you thought.

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