While a custom theme is ideal, Skellie is right - you do at least need to customize your blog theme to include your blog name and tagline, and tweak it a bit to make it stand out from other blogs using the same theme…

$5 buys roughly 300 visitors. If some of those StumbleUpon visitors end up adding more votes to your article, the result could be a traffic snowball much larger than the one you paid for! Before you start, you can…

Optimizing your blog is actually pretty easy - its just a matter of following a few proven steps. Once you get the hang of those steps, they become a natural part of your blogging routine. For today’s task, we’ll walk through some of the basics together…

A guest-poster can inject a bit of freshness into your blog and, most importantly, allow you to focus on tasks other than content creation for a day…

You’ll often find something interesting in your stats that will help you get even more readers to your blog. For example, I found that…

If any of your blogging related passwords are single, Dictionary words or letters only, it would be quite easy for a determined hacker to break into one of your accounts…

Out of date blogging software can be vulnerable to bugs and attacks from hackers. Just make sure to back up your previous install and that you know what you’re doing…

Never take your readers for granted, and always do your best to recognize and appreciate them. One of the best things you can do is interact with your readers on a regular basis. Pay attention to their comments and feedback, and…