The following are 96 topic ideas for bloggers that need a little help figuring out what to write about. By resolving a question, a blogger can write more authentically, and create their own thesis. There is no need for attribution or credit if you decide to use one of these questions; again answering the question makes the blog topic your own unique thesis. Practicing with the question-based model empowers bloggers to generate their own ideas without assistance. What’s the right mix of online promotion between email, advertising, social media and SEO? Media. MORE >>

If you are looking for guest blogging or advertising opportunities on other blogs, you will first want to research your options so that you choose the best home for your post or banner ad. First of all, what should you be looking for in another blog? Maybe it will give you an idea of how many sites are linking to the blog, but it doesn’t help determine traffic, engagement or if Google even considers the blog an authority. So when it comes to determining the worth of a blog, I would worry more about traffic and engagement, and less about PageRank. MORE >>

Pushing Social Should you start advertising on your blog? While advertising is the easiest way to start monetizing your blog, it’s also one of the hardest ways to make money in the beginning. Before you dive in to the world of paid advertising, make sure you handle the prerequisites first. Playing the Advertising Numbers Game. Advertising is a numbers game.  Big niches like beauty and health require large audiences to make advertising economically feasible for advertisers.  What About Affiliate Advertising? Make Sense? MORE >>

Pushing Social Should you start advertising on your blog? While advertising is the easiest way to start monetizing your blog, it’s also one of the hardest ways to make money in the beginning. Before you dive in to the world of paid advertising, make sure you handle the prerequisites first. Playing the Advertising Numbers Game. Advertising is a numbers game.  Big niches like beauty and health require large audiences to make advertising economically feasible for advertisers.  What About Affiliate Advertising? Make Sense? MORE >>

Tweet There’s been a lot of debate back and forth around bloggers (generally mommy bloggers , although they’re certainly not the only ones) receiving direct payment for posts over the last little while. The latest post to catch my eye was a controversial piece over at Mom Blog Magazine entitled Why PR People Get Paid And You Don’t. Over that time I’ve built this site up from a static site, that I coded by hand in Notepad, to a blog with 40,000 views each month. Sometimes that will incorporate a blogger outreach program. MORE >>