Category: Blog

Bloggers Guide to Creating Interesting New Posts

David Cowling | May 9, 2012 | Comments (0)

As bloggers we are always looking for different ways to show off our articles and ideas. It’s important to vary the structure of your content to continually engage readers. Simply writing news related articles will become a little stale and you can often entice your readership with opinion pieces, how to articles and so on. [...]

5 ways to stuff up your Blog

David Cowling | May 7, 2012 | Comments (0)

Everyone seems to be sharing their tips on how to better their blog, but I don’t come across many articles that describe some of the most typical blogging failures. Some of these I have seen directly with my own eyes so wanted to share them with you. 1. Blog owner that stops caring I have [...]

Do you need a Corporate Blog?

David Cowling | January 23, 2012 | Comments (0)

Many companies are asking themselves – Do we need a Corporate Blog? Blogging has become so mainstream, many small, medium and large companies have corporate blogs – so how do you know if your business needs a blog? In fact many businesses are creating their own blog just because ‘it’s what everyone else is doing’. [...]

How to Build a High Quality Blog Readership

David Cowling | January 17, 2012 | Comments (0)

Are you blogging for business? or personal reasons? Building a high quality readership is important whatever the case – you want your readers to be a valuable asset to your website. In fact many blogs have trouble sustaining a long term reader - so today we will discuss some tips to help build a high [...]

5 Ways to Improve your Blog Writing

David Cowling | December 7, 2011 | Comments (0)

There are now a couple hundred million blogs online today, and this has allowed us to create a huge amount of content effortlessly, I’ll be first to admit the writing quality has certainly depreciated. So how can you improve your blog writing skills? We explain 5 tips below. 1. Write Regularly – Consistency is the [...]

How to Write Popular Blog Posts

David Cowling | December 5, 2011 | Comments (0)

We all want more traffic to our blogs, more subscribers, more Facebook likes, bigger email lists – and so on. Getting more traffic to your blog is no easy task and many bloggers face this challenge every day – struggling to remain relevant and keeping your traffic levels. Blogging and social media go hand in [...]

The Secret to Viral Content

David Cowling | December 1, 2011 | Comments (1)

So what is the secret to Viral Content? Well if there was one hard and fast rule, everyone would be doing it and all content on the internet would be viral – that doesn’t make much sense, and it wouldn’t last long. Firstly, we need to define exactly, What is Viral Content? Lets keep it [...]

How to Blog Faster

David Cowling | November 23, 2011 | Comments (2)

Let’s face it – unless your blog is making thousands of dollars a month, spending an hour to write a blog post is not an efficient use of your valuable time. They key to many successful blogs is being able to produce a lot of useful content, quickly. From my research – over 90% of [...]

Copy Content – Get Penalised!

David Cowling | November 17, 2011 | Comments (0)

One of the frustrations many bloggers face is their content being copied by other blogs and websites, without permission. The internet and its many tools allows for people to share and distribute content very easily, but with this comes several ways for people to steal your content automatically every time you post a new article. [...]

Thank your Blog commenters

David Cowling | November 11, 2011 | Comments (6)

Blog commenting is an important aspect in determining how active your blog is, and how well you are engaging your visitors. Over the past couple of years as blogging has become so popular and with so many blogs now, many have speculated that blog commenting is dead. Whilst I don’t necessarily believe this it is [...]

Blog Monetisation Strategies

David Cowling | November 10, 2011 | Comments (1)

I’ve been looking lately at the best ways to monetise your blogs. Blogging is a great business tool where you can gain a significant following and readership – the hard part is always earning money from your blog. When blogging first start people thought you just create a blog, get readers and slap on some [...]

Michael Arrington launches new Blog – UNCRUNCHED

David Cowling | September 27, 2011 | Comments (0)

TechCrunch founder, Michael Arrington – has launched a new blog: Uncrunched This is sure to ruffle the feathers over at TechCrunch, where he was asked to leave the company last week. This has been widely reported in the media and according to Alexa – on the 24th of September he had a daily Alexa Rank [...]

Social Media News Authors

David Cowling | September 5, 2011 | Comments (0)

I wanted to kick off the week with a post about the other Authors and Guest Bloggers on Social Media News Australia. Believe it or not, it’s not just me writing posts on here There are many other Authors posting articles, who all have expertise in the Social Media space. You can check all the [...]

Ultimate Guide to building your RSS Subscriber List

David Cowling | August 24, 2011 | Comments (0)

As a blogger – building your RSS and Email Subscribers is an important aspect of blog promotion and getting repeat visitors to your site. Having a big list of RSS subscribers can bring constant repeat traffic, and also additional revenue opportunities as a blog owner. On this blog my second largest source referring traffic is [...]