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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

Blogger Blogger is Google’s blogging platform and one of the most widely used free blogging services. It does not have options, widgets and plugins, but it is stylish and you can add your own domain for free. I will go through to most widely used blogging services.

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Why Bloggers Need to Build a Subscriber List

Kikolani

As bloggers, your focus is much like mine – creating great content to share with our readers, staying active on social media, connecting and promoting your blog. Some don’t even have a blog or a Twitter account, but they have a subscriber list that they care for and nurture. Your Twitter account can go away. Just Do It!

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Why Bloggers Need a Personal Landing Page

Kikolani

As a blogger you’ve got an ultimate goal: stand out of the crowd of fellow bloggers and -writers and get your words read by a large ammount of enthusiastic, engaged readers. Let’s see some of the most important advantages for bloggers of having a personal landing page. This is a guest post by Per Schmitz.

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As one widget goes, another appears

The Way of the Web

Following the decision by Google to shutter Google Friend Connect , that widget will have disappeared, along with the 82 lovely people who chose to support the site via that method. But it’s reinforced my perception of how Google views social connections, and how that differs from Facebook and Twitter.

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Social Media Informer

Sherrilynne Starkie

Some of social media’s top bloggers are featured on Social Media Former and it gives readers a great one-stop-shop to read their favourite blogs. Regular readers of this blog may notice a new widget featured in the right margin. Social Media Informer is now featuring content from sherrilynnestarkie.com.

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

Socialized

If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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5 Tips to Highlight the Best Content on Your Blog

Kikolani

So, what’s a blogger to do when your most valuable articles get buried under newer posts? Use a popular post widget. You can display this widget in your sidebar or a widget box in your theme. One favorite of many bloggers is “ WordPress Popular Posts ” with over 300,000 downloads.

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