83 Must Read Articles for Bloggers

December 7, 2008 by Bapun | Filed under Blogging

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Here are some bare essentials for Bloggers which comprehensively cover all the requirements for becoming a professional blogger. Always remember that, the difference between ‘extraordinary’ and ‘ordinary’ is just an ‘extra’. Professional bloggers do not do different things, but they do things differently. This is really very difficult to make a name in this even increasing blogging field. So, I am providing you 83 articles. And remember that these articles are going to bring a huge difference in your blogging field. Read them all. Highly recommended.

Blogging Basics: Getting Started

1. How to “Announce” a Blog (Blog Traffic School)

2. Five Beginner’s Blogging Tips (John Chow)

3. Can You Make a Living Blogging? (Graywolf SEO)

4. The First 7 Days of Blogging (Pronet Advertising)

5. Put on Your Game Face (Pronet Advertising)

6. The Basics of RSS (Cheatppc)

Building Meaningful Content

7. How to Use Social News Aggregators as a Source for Content Ideas (Dosh Dosh)

8. 5 Ways to Building a Better Blog (Pronet Advertising)

9. Bring Your A-game to Write for Blogs (Freelance Switch)

10. What Are You Learning from Leading Edge SEO Bloggers? (Graywolf SEO)

11. How Great Headlines Score Traffic (Copyblogger)

12. 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas that Work (Copyblogger)

13. Declaring War on Blogger Apathy (ProBlogger)

Increasing Traffic & Retaining Readers

14. How to Market Your Blog in 2007 (ProBlogger)

15. 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (SEOmoz)

16. Five Steps to a Truly Unique Blog That Attracts Readers and Revenue (Copyblogger)

17. 10 Simple Ways to Retain Blog Readership (Matt Huggins)

18. How to Get Traffic for Your Blog (Seth Godin)

19. Commenting, The Lesser Known Secret of Promoting your Blog (Cheatppc)

20. 10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers (Copyblogger)

21. How to Develop “Stickyness” to Your Blog (Blogging Tips)

22. A Very Simple Way to Increase Your RSS Subscribers & MyBlogLog Community Members (Dosh Dosh)

Linkbaiting, SEO, & Social Networks

23. Top 20 contributing Factors of Google SEO (Cheatppc)

24. 12 Different Types of Links and How to Get Them (Stuntdubl)

25. 101 Ways to Build Links in 2006 (SEOBook)

26. 66 Ways to Build Links in 2007 (Brandon Hopkins)

27. Getting Noticed by A-list Bloggers vs. Getting on Digg Front Pages (Digital Inspiration)

28. Do You Digg This Headline? (Copyblogger)

29. Why Too Many Little Icons Can Easily Distract Your Visitors (Pronet Advertising)

30. How to Generate Targeted Site Traffic Without Search Engines (Scoreboard Media Group)

31. Linkbait, Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exagerated (Graywolf SEO)

32. SEP Advice: Linkbait and Linkbaiting (Matt Cutts)

33. Blogging SEO Basics (Matt Huggins)

34. 99 Ways to Promote your blog (Cheatppc)

35. Search Engine Optimization for Blogs (ProBlogger)

36. 8 Simple SEO Tips for Blogs (JohnTP)

37. How to Enhance Your Blog’s SEO and Attract Relevant Traffic in One Easy Step (Technosailor)

38. Is it OK to Write for Digg? (Copyblogger)

39. Get Your Blog Out of the Google Supplemental Index (Not So Boring Life)

40. Google Alerts: Source for backlinks (Cheatppc)

Building a Community

41. 5 Simple Ways to Encourage Blog Participation (Matt Huggins)

42. 10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog (ProBlogger)

43. 10 Quick Methods to Increase Blog Comments (Legal Andrew)

44. Top 5 WordPress Plugins That Help Increase Comments (JohnTP)

Blog Monetization

45. 8 Tips to Optimize AdSense Units (Daily Blog Tips)

46. Google AdSense Tips, Tricks, and Secrets (Graywolf SEO)

47. CPC and CPM Ads Explained (Cheatppc)

48. Why AdSense is Not Suitable for All Blog Topics (ProBlogger)

49. Make Money from Your Blog (Matt Huggins)

50. Six Powerful Blog Strategies that will Rapidly Increase Your Affiliate Referrals (Dosh Dosh)

51. 10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on Your Blog (ProBlogger)

52. 10 Ways to Make Your Blog More Attractive to Advertisers (ProBlogger)

Blog Promotion

53. Mr. Ploppy’s Monday Tool List Weblog Promotion Tools (Stuntdubl)

54. 7 Steps -10 minutes Search Engine Optimization (Cheatppc)

55. The Thinking Blog has an outstanding guide to promotion. (Thinking Blog)

56. 21 Ways to Promote Your Startup Business (Business Credit Card)

57. How to spend $1,000 promoting your established site. (Make you go Hmm)

58. SEO Tips: Increase Page Rank By Revitalizing Your Old Posts (Blog Herald)

59. Best blog promotion techniques (Synerjy).

60. My blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya (Dnwallace)

61. Blog Promotion: What makes sense for you? (Ten Keyboards) [Link not working]

62. Offline Blog Promotion Ideas – It’s All About Branding. (BlogExposure)

63. Using Video to Promote Your Business (ZeppelinMedia).

64. How to use video to promote your small business (Small Biz Survivals)

65. How To Use Community-Driven Blog Promotion For Your Blog (I Help you Blog)

66. 10 Techniques I Used To Go From 0 To 12,000 RSS Subscribers In Seven Months – With No Ads Or Leverage (Problogger)

67. Blog Promotion 101 (Problogger)

68. Webmaster Forum > Blogging (V7N)

69. Blog Archive Promotion To-Do List (Successful Blog)

70. Promotion, self-promotion and [insert ad here] (SethGodin)

71. 42 Methods for Blog Promotion??? (Manojjasra)

72. 5 Surefire Steps To Increase Readership 300% (or more) (Performancing)

73. 7 Great Ways to Connect with Other Bloggers While You’re Out Reading Blogs

Miscellaneous Blogging Advice

74. Ways that Google detects Invalid clicks (Cheatppc)

75. 27 Lessons Learned on the Way to 3000 Visits a Day and 2200 RSS Subscribers (Pick the Brain)

76. 10 Ways to Become a Better Blogger (TechRepublic)

77. 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger (LifeHack.org)

78. The 5 Deadly Sins of Blogging (Pronet Advertising)

79. 10 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid (John Chow)

80. 10 Reasons Why Blogging is Like Dating (Romance Tracker)

81. 6 Lessons Britney Spears Can Teach You About Blogging (Kumiko’s Cash Quest)

82. Why Everything You Think You Know About Blog Architecture is Wrong (Pearsonified)

83. Help! I’m Addicted to Checking My Blog’s Stats! (ProBlogger) (via)

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