Why Screencast-o-matic is Perfect for Bloggers and Video Screencasts

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A couple of weeks back, I wrote a post asking what you, the  readers, would like to see more of here at For Bloggers By Bloggers. After all, while we’ll (hopefully) continue to provide content that you find useful, getting your needs straight from you makes even more sense! There were some great requests, and [...]

Why We Switched Back to Headway Themes For Our Redesign

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Regular visitors to For Bloggers By Bloggers will notice the redesign we put in place over the weekend. Whereas our previous design was built on the Genesis framework and used the Church child theme, which went for a magazine-style approach, our new design is built on the Headway framework (affiliate link) and goes for a [...]

I’m a Button Dork: Look What I Found!

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Since giving up my Mac to my wife (group awwwww…please) and not using it’s Text Editor, I have been looking for a simple, straightforward, no bloat (thank you @MSchechter for that word) application that I can use for my blogging. Holy Moly Batman, today I discovered just the thing I was looking for and it [...]

Using Google Plus for Inspiration When Your Blog Ideas Run Dry

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If you’re a blogger needing new ideas, Google+ offers some great options for you. From crowdsourcing your group of connections, to setting up keywords to monitor, Google+ offers a cleaner and more efficient way of helping you come up with blog ideas, as this video shows.

Finding Blog Ideas and Growing Blog Traffic with InboxQ

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For most bloggers, finding blog ideas and growing their blog’s traffic is often the hardest part of blogging. Yet as this video shows, this becomes a lot easier with browser add-on InboxQ. Although it’s primarily a platform for answering questions, here’s how you can use InboxQ to find both blog ideas and traffic.

A Quick and Painless Way to Install Google Analytics

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Running Google Analytics on your blog is key for several reasons. Understanding your readers and their behaviour on and off site, as well as keywords and referring sites, helps you define your blog and what it needs to say. Analytics also helps you see potential for monetizing your blog, by showing high-volume searches and the [...]

How to Add a Disclosure Policy to Your Blog

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As blogging and bloggers come under closer scrutiny to disclose professional relationships or sponsored posts, one of the best ways to adhere to this is to have a blanket disclosure policy. While it’s only the U.S. and the U.K. that require disclosure by law at this time, thanks to the FTC and ASA becoming involved [...]

How To Design Your Blog Quick and Easy

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When you are a new blogger it is nice to have at least a few things that come quick and easy. Setting up the look and feel of your your blog should be one of them. In this screencast, I”ll show you a package of framework and child theme that can be used pretty much [...]

How To Use Google Alerts and Twitter Search For Blogging

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If you are anything like me, you love online tools. In my estimation – the blogger with the best tools – wins! There are so many ways to use Google Alerts and Twitter Search. In this screencast, I want to work with you to discover how to use both of these tools in your blogging [...]