Archive for January, 2012

58 Writing Jobs for Bloggers for the Week of 1/22/12

January 29th, 2012
58 Writing Jobs for Bloggers for the Week of 1/22/12

58 writing jobs for bloggers have been listed in the About.com Blogging forum in the Writing Jobs for Bloggers folder. This week's list includes an opportunity to write for the popular Bleacher Report sports blog! Many writing jobs for bloggers require that bloggers write and submit guest posts to other blogs. Here are some tips for guest blogging to help you boost your knowledge and skills: Introduction to Guest Blogging Top 10 Tips ...[continue]

How to Get People to Stay on Your Blog Longer

January 29th, 2012
How to Get People to Stay on Your Blog Longer

Building your blog and achieving success as a blogger require two things -- getting people to visit your blog and getting them to stay on your blog once they find it. There are many effective ways to increase blog traffic, but are you doing the right things to encourage people to stick around, click some links, and spend more than a few seconds on your blog? Check out my tips for ...[continue]

Breaking Bad Habits for a Happier Blogger and Better Blog

January 26th, 2012
Breaking Bad Habits for a Happier Blogger and Better Blog

Unfortunately, there are several bad habits that many bloggers find themselves falling into which are very hard to break. But break them you must! Check out my tips for breaking bad habits that are keeping you from being a happy blogger with a successful blog. Are you guilty of any of these bad habits? How did you finally kick the habit? Leave a comment and share your tips. About.com Web Logs[continue]

69 Writing Jobs for Bloggers for the Week of 1/15/12

January 23rd, 2012
69 Writing Jobs for Bloggers for the Week of 1/15/12

69 writing jobs for bloggers have been listed in the About.com Blogging Forum in the Writing Jobs for Bloggers folder. This week's list includes opportunities to write for MTV and POLITICO. Have you visited the About.com Blogging Forum lately? Some great blog contests have been listed recently. You can check them out in the Blog Contests folder. About.com Web Logs[continue]

Tax Tips and Help for Bloggers

January 20th, 2012
Tax Tips and Help for Bloggers

It's tax season again, and if you made income from your blog in 2011, that means you might need to claim that income on your tax return. You might also be able to claim extra deductions from your blogging work. Read the articles below to get yourself ready to file your 2011 tax return: Making Sense of Freelance Blogging Taxes Tax Tips for Bloggers Tax Deductions for Bloggers About.com Web Logs[continue]

Tumblr Users Can Now Publish Animated GIFs as Photo Posts

January 18th, 2012
Tumblr Users Can Now Publish Animated GIFs as Photo Posts

In case you missed the news, Tumblr photo posts now support animated GIF files up to 1 MB. Now, Tumblr users can publish animated GIFs quickly and easily! You can see it in action in this photo post of an animated GIF published by the Tumblr team. Check out more Tumblr features for bloggers. About.com Web Logs[continue]

Tumblr Users Can Now Publish Animated GIFs as Photo Posts

January 18th, 2012
Tumblr Users Can Now Publish Animated GIFs as Photo Posts

In case you missed the news, Tumblr photo posts now support animated GIF files up to 1 MB. Now, Tumblr users can publish animated GIFs quickly and easily! You can see it in action in this photo post of an animated GIF published by the Tumblr team. Check out more Tumblr features for bloggers. About.com Web Logs[continue]

78 Writing Jobs for Bloggers for the Week of 1/8/12

January 16th, 2012
78 Writing Jobs for Bloggers for the Week of 1/8/12

78 writing jobs for bloggers have been listed in the About.com Blogging Forum in the Writing Jobs for Bloggers folder. This week's list includes jobs blogging for the Village Voice and working with X17. Many blogging job postings ask writers to submit writing samples. Make sure you send your best blog post by running it against the blog post checklist first to make sure it's as good as it can be! About.com ...[continue]

How to Find Online Influencers for Blog Promotion Help

January 15th, 2012
How to Find Online Influencers for Blog Promotion Help

Finding online influencers who have the eyes and ears of an audience who would be interested in your blog content is an excellent way to indirectly promote your blog and drive traffic to it. As you develop relationships with online influencers, you might even be able to ask them to help you spread the word about one of your blog posts. However, you can't ask them to help you unless you ...[continue]

Blogger Finally Supports Threaded Commenting

January 12th, 2012
Blogger Finally Supports Threaded Commenting

For years, Blogger users have been asking for a feature to be added to the application that allows threaded commenting on blog posts. Finally, the feature has been rolled out! Threaded commenting enables visitors to reply not just in a long list of general comments in response to an original blog post but also to reply to each other. When a visitor replies to a specific comment on a blog post ...[continue]