I promised myself a while ago that I would never blog about blogging – I hate reading posts about how I should or shouldn’t blog and being told what I can and can’t say or do but when I saw the theme Kate has set for this week’s Listography, I couldn’t resist sharing my top 5 blogging tips with you….
1. Add your Blog to the Kindle Store – It’s really quick and easy to do and you earn 30% on any sales. Most blog subscriptions sell for about 99p a month so you will make around 30p a month from each subscription.
I added mine about a year ago and then forgot all about it until I got a nice little cheque through the post a few months ago. If you want to put a bit more effort into it than me, you could get fellow bloggers to rate your blog on the Amazon Kindle Store to tempt more people to try it and a small badge on your blog letting people know they can subscribe on their Kindle is bound to get more people signing up. Kindle’s are getting more popular all the time so it can only be a good thing to get your blog on there now.
2. Make it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog feed- Now that Google Friend Connect is on it’s way out, you need to make it as easy as possible for people to subscribe to follow you. I have an icon for my RSS feed as well as one for my Twitter and Facebook pages and I think if you were looking to follow this blog, I’ve made it as clear as I can how to do it.
3. Install something like Google Analytics or Statcounter and then completely ignore it unless you absolutely have to look at it! I’m pretty sure all bloggers go though a bit of a stat obsessed phase and really, it’s completely natural for you to want to know if people are reading what you’re writing but it’s very easy to get a bit too obsessed with it all (speaking from experience). I’ve learnt now that the best measure of how much people are reading (and more importantly enjoying what they’re reading) is by the comments left on each post or by the tweets and e mails I get about it.
4. Make yourself a media kit to attach to your replies to e mails that any PR’s or companies send you about sponsored posts and advertising. There’s a great guide for this over at Blogger.Ed. My media pack details things like my monthly unique visitors and page views, my page rank and also details of my Twitter and Facebook followers along with my charges for advertising. While you’re over at Blogger.Ed you should have a look at the other blog posts as there’s some really good ones with lots of ideas on how to grow your blog. There’s also a forum for bloggers and I’ve found that to be invaluable, I’ve had some great advice and some great opportunities from there.
5. Remember why you started to blog – I started to make sure that I had a record of the children growing up and decided to combine this with sharing frugal and moneysaving tips as this is a big focus for us as a family.
6. Bonus tip! Photos – I love blogs with photos! I use Picnik which is a free photo editing program that’s really simple to use for my photos and I also love Instagram on my iPhone. I do have an all singing, all dancing DSLR camera but to be honest the iPhone camera does the job most of the time.
So there you go my top 5 blogging tips 
What’s your top blogging tip?
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It’s nice that there is someone who writes about these things. There are very useful.
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Good luck x x
Excellent suggestion to put our blogs on Kindle!! I;ve just done it. Clever you. Thanks for that–and the rest!!
Thanks very much – fingers crossed you make lots of pennies x
I'm a massive fan of Picnik, so quick and easy to use! And the most important one, remember why you blog. Great selection
Thanks very much, I tell everyone about Picnik – you'd think I was on commission lol
had never heard of the kindle one… enjoying setting it up and youre right its really quick and easy. THANKS FOR SHARING
Hi Liz, I'm glad you found it helpful – was it your hubby I was talking to today? I've just added your link to my blog roll under thrifty blogs x
I came across your blog via the BritMums blog carnival. Very useful tips. Thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you found me, hope you stick around x x
No one has ever subscribved to me on kindle well I have never had a penny
Ah if I had a Kindle I'd subscribe x
Love all these ideas. I really need to start posting more photos on my blog.
Thanks very much x
Fab tips Cassie
Wish I could get someone to subscribe to my blog on Kindle though…
Well if you let me have your kindle I'll subscribe to you x
Good tips – going to check out Kindle now
Yes, agree on the kindle idea! I didn't know about this one.
It's definitely worth doing – it only takes a few minutes x
This is an awesome list! And blogs on Kindle – who knew?! (None of us obviously!)
Thanks very much – hope you got yours on there now x
Kindle Blogs?? Never heard of that. Why would people pay for it when they can just subscribe for free? I must investigate. Thanks for the tip – and the other great advice. Fantastic value.
I completely agree about why would people pay to subscribe on Kindle when they can read for free but lots do so I'm al for it lol
Ooooo … like the Kindle Blogs idea!
It's worth a try for the few minutes it takes you x
When blogging seems like a chore to you already, take a break! Long or short, take all the time you need to recharge.
That's a good one x
Brilliant tips, thanks for these! I was completely unaware that you could add your blog to KIndle, (with not having one myself!) so will have to read up on that as it sounds a great idea and something I'd like to know more about!
It's definitely worth doing – for the little effort it takes you might make some extra pennies x