Another Friday calls for our second installment of our awesome Wired Weekend series where we bring you our favorite blogging tips from around the web.
The thing that makes this series so great (besides how useful these links are) is that we select articles from our community and feature them in the post. We collect our favorite articles from your web/blogging blog and post them here.
All you need to do is participate in our community throughout the week for us to notice your blog, and if we like your stuff – consider it added to our Wired Weekend series.
Notable Mentions of Blogussion
Check out what blogs are talking about Blogussion this week!
- Creative Bookmarks: Best of the Web October 2009
- 80+ High Quality And useful Resources – Best of the Web October
- Add a Custom Feedburner Count to your Wordpress Blog
- InternetHow’s favorite blog posts of the week
- Talented Thesis Theme Designer For Hire: Live Portfolio Here Now
Tutorial9 featured our article How to prepare a guest post in 5 simple steps in their monthly link roundup post.
Smashing Apps also featured How to prepare a guest post in 5 simple steps in their monthly link roundup post.
Shane Jeffers expands on our tutorial How to display your Twitter and RSS count on your blog with some cool CSS tricks.
A great roundup post where two of our posts (169 marketing tips and how to connect with your community) were featured.
A post that showcases the design of Blogussion and other works by myself. Also, this blog is going to put up a list of 100 Reasons Why Blogussion is an Amazingly Successful Site soon. We cannot wait for this list to come out!
Blogging Tips From the Community
Amazing articles hand picked from our community of commentators.
- Personal Branding with Photos and your name
- My blog’s 2 month journey so far
- 5 Kill WordPress plugins
- Top 5 myths about making money blogging
- Do Unto Others’ Blogs As You Would Have Them Do Unto Yours
- Want to Become a Problogger? Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone
An article that stresses the importance of getting personal with your community and the impacts of not sharing basic info such as your name and photo!
A fun type of post to read, check up on what the Teen Blogger Kid is up to and how his blog is doing after two months. When I read this, it really made me remember starting this blog and how much fun that was!
A list of really great plugins for WordPress. My favorite from the list is called After the Deadline which is the best spell check around right now.
Making money blogging is no easy task for most of us, and with so much advice out there about how to succeed in earning – what’s right and wrong? Well, I’m pretty sure this post is dead on with the myths it exposes.
A great post that explains how important it is to get active on other peoples blogs. Another idea this post makes me think of is the concept of giving more, and hope to get something in return.
A post that shows how unlikely it will be for your blog to find any success if you do not get out there and try new things.
Blogging Tips From Twitter
A collection of great blogging tips that we found on Twitter this week.
- Let Google Tell You What Topics to Write About
A great article by @Dennisyu where he talks about learning what Google already gives you authority for and maximizing it.
- Market It Write
@Laynefisher tells us 4 valuable lessons she’s learned about writing and marketing from trying to write a novel in a month.
- Five Ways to Immediately Enhance Your Online Productivity
@MattChevy is not only a good friend but also an excellent blogger. These tips are invaluable for blogging well.
- 8% of the Internet Account for 80% of the Clicks
Tweeted by @JeffWend This article changes the way I look at the internet for sure.
- Falling Off the Shoulders of a Giant
@Simplicitysqd Talks about the changing landscape of the internet and its effect on bloggers.
Blogussion Weekly Recap
Just in case you missed them, here are the four posts that were published into Blogussion this week.
- Five Points to a Successful Blogging Event
- How Bloggers can prepare for the Future of Journalism
- The Best users are the Biggest Winners
- How to setup a “Favorite” posts section and bring life back to old posts
A guest post by Arie Rich where she talked about how to plan a working blogging event.
Blogging is changing rapidly every day, and Everett Bogue talks about how you can prepare your blog for these changes.
A post that talks about how important it is to get involved with your readers and how you always get back what you give out!
A highly detailed tutorial about how to create a “favorite posts” section just like ours and bring traffic back to older posts.
That’ll do it!
I hope you guys enjoyed this roundup! We found a lot of great articles from around our community this week and are really glad we have such intelligent bloggers participating in our community.
Stick around because Monday we will start publishing new, great content! Then, as soon as you know it – another Friday comes by and it’s another Wired Weekend all over again!
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Great article Alex! I bookmarked about 4 of these sites already that I found from your list to read when I get home. It’s great that you share the awesomeness of these articles around with us!
Rob´s last blog ..5 Killer Wordpress plug-ins
Awesome Rob, glad you found some good stuff!
Alex´s last blog ..8 Funny Things I Learned From Designing That I Apply to Life
thanks alex for this.your 5 deadly wordpress plugins link is awesome,thanks again
Free Mobile Games´s last blog ..SPORE Creatures Multi Language for s60v5 mobiles download
Its a great to get useful plugins isn’t it!
Seth´s last blog ..Wired Weekend #2: The Best Blogging Tips From Around the Web
I love these posts. Not only do I benefit from the links, I learn from your strategy – cool stuff!
Brandon Cox´s last blog ..Subscribe to We Blog Better’s (Future) Mailing List
Yeah we love putting them together! Its something we do together, that way its a fun way to combine what we found for the week and read ourselves.
Seth´s last blog ..Wired Weekend #2: The Best Blogging Tips From Around the Web
Nice interesting compilation, just help me to do some brainstorm as well as able to discover some good site.
Arafat Hossain Piyada´s last blog ..How to make Mafia Wars a Traffic Generating Machine For Your Blog?
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for stopping by!
Alex´s last blog ..8 Funny Things I Learned From Designing That I Apply to Life
I’m relatively new to this site so I’m surprised I got two article links in the Blogging Tips From the Community section. Not complaining…love the plugs!
Thanks again and keep up the great work on this site.
Gabe | freebloghelp.com´s last blog ..A blogger’s three month dilemma: burnout or refuel?
You cheated! Guest posts don’t count!
Jk. Great work Gabe. I read both of those articles right when they were published. You’re work has been getting increasingly better. I remember when we both started and talking about both of our blogs growing up.. It looks like we’ve done pretty well so far.
Keep up the good work!
Blake @ Props Blog Reviews´s last blog ..Let Click Booth Make You An Affiliate Rockstar
You had some good stuff this week Gabe, good work!
Alex´s last blog ..8 Funny Things I Learned From Designing That I Apply to Life
We love our new readers and try to reach out those providing excellent resources for our community. Great posts, hope it helps!
Seth´s last blog ..Wired Weekend #2: The Best Blogging Tips From Around the Web
Thanks for the mention. I like that you chose a guest post from Gabe Young. I’m still uncomfortable promoting myself… but I will promote the heck out of my guest authors! And Gabe is really solid, he knows his business.
Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend´s last blog ..Top 5 Biggest Lies About Blogging for Money
No problem Dave, thanks for stopping by!
Alex´s last blog ..8 Funny Things I Learned From Designing That I Apply to Life
Useful resources Alex, your blog rocks… ”Top 5 myths about making money blogging” was a great post for me!
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I really enjoyed that one too. It’s a post that you see a lot of, but I really like the writers style.
Alex´s last blog ..8 Funny Things I Learned From Designing That I Apply to Life
Thanks for not only your own tips but also sharing tips from others that you personally think is useful.
The more i go through your content, the more i am stunned and shocked that this is still a new blog!
I’ve only just recently launched my blog and really hope that one day soon i can have the same success as you’re having. Blogussion is really inspiring for me and gives me kind of something to use as a goal to work towards in building my blog to a level of quality and design such as yours.
Thank you for continuing to post great helpful content. New kid on the blog like myself really appreciates it!
No problem Lam, that’s what makes this series so awesome – we choose content from our community. It also makes finding links a bit easier too.
I’m really happy that you find this blog so useful, I put a lot into the site and I am glad that people find inspiration from my work here.
Hope to see you around!
Alex´s last blog ..8 Funny Things I Learned From Designing That I Apply to Life
I can see how having a partner REALLY helps!
Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Crisis Averted – Hosting Paid – Please Read!
Thanks for picking up my (guest) post to the list (the one about personal branding using real name and photo)… That was a nice surprise, as I liked the number#1 of this new series last week, and again, enjoyed this one. Many great posts I would’ve otherwise missed. There’s so many great blogs and articles out there that we need each other to keep up with the best of’em, and you do a great job on it with this post.
Antti Kokkonen´s last blog ..Do You Have The Entrepreneurial Spirit?
Excellent recap Alexa, this is your first recap that I have had the chance to check out since I added your site to my reader a few days ago and it’s just as helpful as the Thesis custimzation tips and tricks that I went through the other day.
I think I can get lost on this blog for days and be just fine with it, now Im off to hit some of the posts you mentioned above.
Extreme John´s last blog ..5 Ways Blogging Can Kill You
Thank you for continuing to post great helpful content. New kid on the blog like myself really appreciates it!