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Take Control with Twitter Lists
Not long after I first joined Twitter, I followed an author I really like, and she immediately followed me back. I did not assume that because she followed me back, she’d actually be reading my tweets....
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Should You Start a Newsletter?
The web flows, each and every day, with or without you: a constant stream of news, status updates, and posts to bookmark and read. Alexis Madrigal once described the internet-as-stream beautifully in...
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Is One the Loneliest Number? Starting a Second Blog
Blogging is addictive — “I’ll take a minute to finish this post” hurtles down the slippery slope past “I’ll skim the Reader for an hour ” before skidding to a halt in front of “I’ll spend two hours...
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Perennial Favorites: Post Titles that Boost Your Traffic
It’s the meat of your post that counts, but, more often than not, it’s your post title that first signals to potential visitors they should hop over to your blog. In this post from our archives, Krista...
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Finding Your People: Forums and Niche Networks
We spend a lot of time discussing ways to use social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram to grow your blog’s audience. Forums are another effective tool for increasing your...
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Perennial Favorites: Should You Connect Your Blog to Your LinkedIn Account?
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to separate our personal and professional lives — in real life and online. In this post from last year, Ben points out some of the potential benefits — and...
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Revisiting Your UVP: Why Should We Read *You*?
Every story has already been told. Once you’ve read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to...
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Perennial Favorites: Traffic Dos and Don’ts
One of the most frequent questions bloggers ask us — and themselves — is how to get more readers. In this post I wrote a year ago, I went over some of the basic things you should consider when trying...
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All About Slugs (Not the Slimy Kind)
When we start writing a new post, WordPress automatically creates a URL for the post using our blog’s address, the date, and post title. Great, now you don’t have to worry about your post’s URL, right?...
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What the Heck is Bloglovin’, and Do I Need It?
Have you noticed images like this in the sidebars of blogs you read and felt like you were missing something? Now you know what they’re about. While catching up with your favorite bloggers, you’ve...
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Great, you have followers. Now what?
For most of us, the thrill of clicking “publish” on a blog post has a less-pleasant side effect: the dread that it will fall alone in the online forest, unread and unheard. Eventually, though, someone...
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Recommended Reading: “Platforms Are Overrated”
When you have to make a choice about how to spend your writing time, choose your book first. Every. Single. Time. To approach your writing career any other way is a mistake. – Stephanie Bane,...
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Three Ideas for Serial Posts
Interested in more ideas on serializing? Check out some of Ben‘s posts from our archives. Serial posts are one way to encourage your audience to return to your blog and make your site a part of their...
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Perennial Favorites: The Benefits of Strategic Listening
In this piece from our archives, Michelle lays out the benefits of thinking strategically about your online presence — and becoming more attuned to the nuances of the blogging community. Our blogs are...
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Drawing Insight From Your Annual Report
Note: Annual Reports weren’t sent automatically to all users. You had to publish at least one post for the year and get over five-hundred views in 2014 in order to generate a report. At the end of...
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Finding Inspiration for Your Blog Name
Bloggers on Choosing Their Names: Q&As with WordPress.com users on how they selected their blog names. Where’s My Toothbrush? and Raising My Rainbow Talking Covers Museum in a Bottle The Goat That...
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Don’t Go It Alone: Four Great Blogging Events
Part of what makes your blog a “blog” instead of a personal diary is the way it connects you to other people: when you’re blogging, you’re part of a global network. Hopefully, you’re already making the...
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Recommended Reading: Why I Abandoned My Social Media Presence
Have you ever stopped to think about why you are on social media? For me, it has always been about connecting with people, learning from my community, and contributing to that community. Page views,...
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The Dark Side of Freshly Pressed: Handling the Highs and Lows
A roundtable of bloggers and editors: Paula Reed Nancarrow, Paula Reed Nancarrow Peg Schulte, Peg-o-Leg’s Ramblings Stephanie Summar, Listful Thinking Krista Stevens, editor Michelle Weber, editor...
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An Introduction to Insights, Your Newest Stats
This post focuses on your new Insights panel, which you can access from wordpress.com/stats. If you prefer, you can access your original stats page with this link format:...
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