How to Jump Start Your Social Media Presence Using Your Blog and Other Tricks

social media bandwagons

Social media is really important… you have to do it… blah, blah, blah. We all know that. I know that and even though I was included in some Twitter power user lists I still struggle with accounts that aren’t related to my Online Income Star blog. The rules are always the same, but it just [...]

Get Your Livefyre Commenting System Walk-through

Livefyre Commenting System

Here at For Bloggers, By Bloggers, we have talked a lot about Livefyre, our preferred commenting system.  And we proudly use it here on this blog. If you compare Livefyre to the WordPress vanilla commenting system, social sharing and realtime conversations are only two of the reasons to use Livefyre to turn your readers and [...]

7 WordPress Plugins You Might Have Missed

WordPress plugins

It’s plugin day again on For Bloggers By Bloggers WordPress Wednesday. With so many to choose from, there is something for everybody. Here are some that come in handy for very specific needs. 1. Pricing Table Have you ever a blog or website with those cool pricing tables that compare multiple packages of similar products [...]

Talk to the Hand: 7 Things You Don’t Want to Do with WordPress

7 Things Not To Do In WordPress

WordPress gives us so many features and options once we are in the dashboard. And if we add some widgets and a theme: presto, there’s even more. But no matter what you are using WordPress for—if you have one site or ten— there are features you might want to understand more clearly. When in WordPress, [...]

Christmas Tips To Make Your Writing Better in 2012

Pieces fitting together

Want to know a secret? There are two simple rules to follow to make sure your writing is applicable and accessible for any audience you’re writing for. Since it’s Christmas, I’m in the giving mood and am going to share with you the rules and their uses. Keep in mind, these will work for any [...]

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 [...]

13 WordPress Blog Design ‘Don’ts’

13 WordPress Blog design don'ts

This is a hectic week for me. I’m headed for the BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Los Angeles, where I’ll be speaking on how to make your blog user-friendly. Doing the final touches on my presentation, and writing a post, “What I Won’t Do at BlogWorld,” got me thinking about things people shouldn’t do [...]

Giving Your Readers What They Want

What do your readers really want?

If you are not giving your blog community what they want they will leave you.  That’s the truth of the matter. I have experienced it first hand on my own blogs and have seen it over and over again on others. It is just human nature. When we are asked to invest time and energy [...]

Four Reasons Your Blog Is Dying

Four Reasons Your Blog Is Dying

Blogs more numerous to count are started each and everyday. A good percentage of those blogs will never make it past 90 days. Many more will fail in the first six months, with a huge number lying dormant in the first year alone. So why is it that so many blogs die, and what can [...]