25 Must-Read Articles For Bloggers
Posted: February 9th, 2010 | 6 Comments »At the office, I require my team to read blogs on a daily basis. This list of articles is for their benefit and the the benefit of any blogger that is looking for some good reads. Sadly, there are a lot of crappy SEO tips out there, so you need to be careful about what you read. However, this list comes from some of the most reputable professional SEOs, social media experts and pro bloggers out there. Read them all or read a few, either way you’re bound to reap some huge rewards by investing your time.
SEO Basics
If you haven’t started applying SEO tactics to your blog, you may find that even a few tweaks could add up to huge value. Read these basic guides
Meta Titles and Descriptions
Applying the best practices prescribed by SEOmoz can increase both your rankings and click through rate.
SEO Friendly URLs
One of the most foolish mistakes a blogger could make! Friendly URLS are easier on both GoogleBot and the reader.
Duplicate Content
Every blogger fights with the problem of duplicate content. Find out how you can minimize duplicate content problems that minimize the value of each post.
- The Illustrated Guide to Duplicate Content in the Search Engines
- How to Deal with Pagination & Duplicate Content Issues
Pagerank Optimization
A short post I wrote for bloggers to better understand how PageRank works and what it really is.
WordPress
This is by far the best post I’ve seen to date for starting your own wordpress blog.
Blogging Basics
I find myself reading these posts again and again! Great tips.
- Starting Your First Blog – 29 Tips, Tutorials and Resources for New Bloggers
- 9 First Step Goals for New Bloggers
- 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Blogging
- Crawl Before You Walk – 6 Step by Step Instruction for Starting Your First Blog
Increasing Readership / Traffic
The most common question we as bloggers have, “How can I increase my traffic?” Looks like we have quite a bit of help in this department.
- 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
- Starting a Successful Blog is Like Planning an Invasion
- 7 Ways to Turn a Blog Post Upside Down and Get More Comments
- How To Write A Killer Blog Post
- 10 Secrets to More Magnetic Copy
- 9 Proven Headline Formulas That Sell Like Crazy
Common Blogging Mistakes
I find myself guilty, guilty and guilty, again! Very insightful posts.
- Warning: Do You Recognize These 21 Blogging Mistakes
- Seven Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School
- The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging
- Why You’re Too Qualified and Respectful to Produce Great Content
We have added your site to my Google homepage using your RSS feed, does that mean I am going to be up to date once you produce a article?
Thanks for this helpful post. I just created my wordpress blog and the tips cited here are very useful. That’s my first real blogsite and I’m very excited!
I’m the author of “Why You’re Too Qualified and Respectful to Produce Great Content”, and I just wanted to say thanks for including my post in your list!
I’m in very good company; these are some stellar posts you’ve rounded up here.
Thanks Pace! I really enjoyed your article. It’s soooo dead on. Sometimes you just need to punch your reader in the mental crotch to get them interested. Who needs all the formalities and respect? We’re on the internet for Christ’s sake!
@addmen, Yes that is correct.
@annette, Thanks Ann!
Very interesting article list! I’ll make sure I’ll be able to read all of them. Thanks a lot!