Regardless of the size and scope of your blog, you undoubtedly face periodic challenges associated with publishing content frequently enough and keeping readers engaged with topics they enjoy. You can especially relate to that if you have more than one blog or maintain an extremely busy schedule that makes it difficult to devote as much time as you’d like to a blog.

Fortunately, sponsored content and posts written by guest bloggers can fill the void. But then the question arises, how much of that material can you use without annoying readers who prefer original content? You can consider numerous things to reach an answer. Read More

In the late nineties, blogs surfaced as a form of self-expression, and many platforms such as LiveJournal and Blogger allowed young people and mature folks to share their views.

You have probably noticed that many trends of the nineties have come back into popularity, trending on various posts around the blogosphere. Talk about full circle, right?

Blogs stuck around to mature as a vital component of expression, marketing and money making. They generate activity and buzz around a brand. For example, marketers with business blogs boost leads and traffic by 67 percent. With blogging, your brand is present to attract quality leads with continually updated posts.

Still, blogging isn’t a golden ticket to success for all who post. Here are five things every blog post should include to get on the road there. Read More

For every brilliant creative rush, there’s an equally dismal and long rut bloggers fall into without fail — it makes you feel like a lazy failure. You’re not alone. Blogging ruts happen to the best of us.

Six months ago, I fell into a major blogging rut. On days when I wasn’t feeling the rush, I trusted I’d recover, and I made up for it at other moments when the creativity flowed. I’d write an extra post or two and schedule one for later in my editorial calendar — at least I’d attempt to sketch out the idea. Before long, the cursor kept blinking on the blank page. The periods between rushes extended, and I finally accepted that I had a serious case of writer’s block.

Remember the Little Blogging Train That Could? Probably not because it’s a thing I just made up, but the storybook adage applies to your blog: Think you can, and you will. Here’s how to climb your way back out and relaunch your blog more boldly and successfully than before. Read More

Lists exist in your everyday to-dos and everywhere online. Some sites focus on serving up content solely through listicles, while others use lists within small sections of posts.

Lists are versatile, and that’s why they’re popular among bloggers and readers. Even as a small part of a post, lists make your content more impactful, accessible and actionable to a reader. Here’s how to make better lists and use those to your advantage as a blogger. Read More