Emotional Buy-in: How to Engage Your Blog’s Readers with Humor

using humor in blogs

Have you ever noticed that making someone laugh brings them closer to you? That you feel more connected to that person? Humor is one of the best ways to connect emotionally with our readers. We laugh with each other and all of a sudden we have a bond. It’s like laughter becomes a bridge between [...]

Weekly Round Up w/c November 22 2010

For Bloggers By Bloggers weekly round up

Hi, and welcome to our weekly round up of posts. If you missed anything from this week on For Bloggers by Bloggers, you can catch up with it here. To make sure you never miss a post when it’s published, choose your preferred subscription option from the sidebar to the right (email, RSS feed, social [...]

5 Ways to Become a Better Blogger Today

be a better blogger

One of the questions I get asked often is, “How do I become a better blogger?”. It could be from getting more readers to getting more comments, or blogging more regularly to blogging quality content. The first thing I say is – don’t get hung up on what’s viewed as “better blogging”. Someone like Perez [...]

25 Ways to Use the Web to Find Content for Your Blog

25 ways to find blog content

As a blogger, you know that sometimes the hardest thing to do is come up with content for your blog. Finding ideas for your blog (especially if you want to post regularly) can often lead to you not blogging at all, because you start hitting the wall when it comes to what to blog about. [...]

25% Off All StudioPress Themes for Thanksgiving Weekend

25% off StudioPress themes

We’re big fans of the StudioPress guys here at For Bloggers By Bloggers. We use their Genesis framework with the Church child theme for our design, and on my own blog, I’m currently running the Lexicon child theme as a placeholder while my designer codes the new upcoming design. As well as offering a ton [...]

3 Discoveries About Rockmelt, The Social Browser

Review of social browser Rockmelt

Two weeks ago, I had never heard of Rockmelt. Then, at #bnchat, a friend asked me about it and through the course of our conversation sent me an invitation. I spent the next fours days playing around with it and these are my thoughts: Browser Battle At first glance, you can tell that Rockmelt is [...]

10 Secret Fears of Bloggers

frightened baby

Blogging fears. We all have them. And we don’t always want to talk about them. But when we sit down to write, they rear their ugly heads, those nasty trolls with the beady eyes and crazy orange hair: “What makes you think you can write?” “Why would anyone be interested in what you have to [...]

Weekly Round Up w/c November 15 2010

Weekly round up of best blogging tips

Hi, and welcome to our weekly round up of posts. If you missed anything from this week on For Bloggers by Bloggers, you can catch up with it here. To make sure you never miss a post when it’s published, choose your preferred subscription option from the sidebar to the right (email, RSS feed, social [...]

Forget Digg – Stumbleupon is Where It’s At For Blog Traffic

social bookmarking site stumbleupon

One of the most underrated social bookmarking tools – yet deservedly growing in popularity and use – is Stumbleupon. A simple yet effective application, Stumbleupon allows users to find random sites on the Internet either by recommendation from other Stumblers, or by happening across it by accident – all with the click of the Stumble [...]