headlines – For Bloggers By Bloggers

Headlines are important. You’re working on a very limited budget of mindspace when you send a blog post out into the world. Most blog readers spend their time skimming articles in their Google Reader or Facebook streams and won’t read more than your title and first paragraph, so you better have something to rope them [...]

The Anatomy of a Great Blog Post

Blogging, like any other form of the written word, has a certain anatomy to it. While I have never come across a standardized “rule book” for how a blog post should flow, I believe every great blog post include a few basic elements. You may have others (and please discuss them in the comments below), [...]