WordPress User Roles: It’s All About Control, Baby

User Roles in WordPress

If you are using WordPress, or thinking about it, once it’s installed, you are given an administrative role. What does that mean? Well, you can do anything and everything to your site because you have full access. One question I get a lot is, “Why are there different user roles and what are they good [...]

Do You Need Keywords in Blog Posts?

Keys to blogging success

Yesterday I took part in a blogging Q&A session. One of the questions asked related to keywords - Do you need keywords in blog posts? I thought I would write a post about it as it’s something that comes up in conversation often, along with do you really blog every day? Where do you find the [...]

How to Grow Your Blog By Nurturing Your Community

Nurture your blog

There’s been much written about what makes a good blog community. Some of the smartest and best bloggers around have all shared their views, and they all make great points. So I’m not going to talk about that today. Instead, I’d like to offer some ideas on how you can best engage your blog community [...]

For Bloggers By Bloggers Weekly Review

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, or [...]

6 Tips For Beating Writer’s Block

beating writer's block

You’ve sat in front of the white screen and the flashing cursor for hours, days, months and nothing is coming out. You have a post, article, sales copy, book that has to be written. Your mind is buzzing, but nothing flows from the fingers to the screen. We’ve all felt it, encountered it, bitched about [...]

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Turkey

Today is Thanksgiving. The only thing I want to be doing today is spending time with my family and I assume the same is true for you, so I’m not going to spend hundreds of words telling you things about writing and social media. This is a social day and you should be spending it [...]

Come Together Right Now: The Three Circles of WordPress

WordPress developers, designers and casual users

In the world of WordPress, there are three circles. Remember those Venn diagrams in high school geometry, with circles that overlapped with other circles where they shared common things?? Well, these circles are not like that. These circles don’t have a lot in common with each other. It isn’t that one is better than another—just [...]

Fiverr for Bloggers and Why You Should Use It

Fiverr_Thanksgiving

Fiverr – I have to admit to secretly loving Fiverr.com. Fiverr is a site where everything on the site is sold for $5. Now, before you jump on me from a great height, I am not into slave labour. I am into outsourcing fiddly little things that are a pain in the backside – providing it [...]

How to Make Money from Your Blog and Not Piss Off Your Tribe

Money from blogging

Let’s say you amassed a large tribe on your blog (and yes, I stole Seth’s word here). A large tribe doesn’t necessarily mean a large number of subscribers, but it does mean a respectable size that actively shares what you’re doing without your involvement. Your tribe gets bigger and managing it evolves into a full-time job. You need [...]