Jamie Harrop goes in depth with 1,800 words, video and audio to give you six tips for better "About Us" pages on your blog. The about page is your chance to sell yourself and your blog, and should therefore be the best page on your site. His six entertaining tips ensure this will be the case. In the ever growing need to stand

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I share my six step formula for BloggingZoom success. What should you write about? When should you submit your article? Which articles should you submit? How can you increase the chances of people Zooming your work? This article sets out to answer those questions.

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A 180 degree U turn in blog topic and niche saw my subscriber count increase by 300%, the average comments per post increase 300% and the average number of visitors per month increase 200%. I share my methods for monitoring your readers needs and wants to allow your blog to adapt to the present.

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Last month I emailed Court, the BloggingZoom founder. I asked a question. At what time of the day does the BloggingZoom script reset and a new 24 hour period start? Obviously the best time to submit content is as soon as the BloggingZoom clock has reset, to allow your article a full 24 hours to gain Zooms. Today, I've published Court's answ

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In the Internet marketing niche of the blogosphere, we're increasingly seeing guest bloggers and co-authors taking advantage of the reader-base that the original author has established. But how do you manage guest blogging on your own blog? This post by Jamie Harrop tries find out.

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Scouting gives life skills. Leadership. Friendship. Confidence and organisational skills just to name a few. In this post I identify five things we, as bloggers, can learn from the average Scout to help us build and improve our blog.

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Should blogging be proactive or reactive? The term 'Web Log' suggests a log of events over time. But this isn't what a proactive blog provides. With many blogs being proactive, should we really be calling them blogs? Or has the definition of 'blog' changed from its initial source of 'Web log'?

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In this post, I share six of the best features of Google Analytics, which also happen to be overlooked by many users. Through screenshots and examples, I have provided a ranking of my best kept Analytics features.

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During the time I have been active in the blogosphere, I have realised that there are some small, albeit very important features that immediately turn me away from a blog if they are not present. In this post, I share those features with my readers, as well as some statistical facts that show how important the features are. To build a success

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After receiving nearly 700 visitors from StumbleUpon, mainly due to my comprehensive analysis of the quality of StumbleUpon traffic, I decided to write a time line of the events that have occurred over this week that have led to me receiving more vi

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Compared to an average Sunday, I had a 500% increase in traffic to my blog. How? You ask. StumbleUpon, I answer. Was it good? No, it sucked! Here is the story of a first date with StumbleUpon that didn't quite go to plan.

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