Everyone talks about blog theme and template design. But what’s rarely talked about is the design and styling of the most critical part of a blog… the blog posts themselves. Which is why I’m putting this list together. The following are 14 resources that been very helpful to me in learning how to style my content to keep readers coming back for more.
Blog Content Presentation
Blog content presentation isn’t just about putting together a couple of paragraphs and calling it quits. The best bloggers put way more effort into their posts than that. You can really provide a good mix of content to your readers by using things like lists, quotes, multiple headlines etc.
1. 6 Popular Content Presentation Design Patterns
2. 10 great, content-friendly web designs
3. Spice Up Your Blog With 7 jQuery Goodies
4. Mastering 3 Styles of Blog Lists for More Effective Content Marketing
5. Blog Design Features That Will Earn You More Money
6. 8 Incredibly Simple Ways [...]

I’d be lying to you if I told you that I learned all this blogging stuff on my own by just coming up with ideas on a whim. The fact is that I learn from others… a lot! In fact I spend approximately 20x more time reading other blogs than writing in my own. I consider this worth my time because of the incredible things I learn every time I study other blogs.
Over the past few years I have collected every valuable/helpful article as it relates to becoming a better blogger that I have read. Below are 50 tips for becoming a better blogger from this archive I have created.
Creating Popularity, Authority & Trust
Learning how to create popularity, authority and trust is the holy grail of all blogging. It’s extremely difficult to do and requires time, sacrifice, and an immense amount of passion.
1. How to Create a Popular Blog
2. How [...]

Whether you are just starting a personal blog, managing a website for a business, or are an accomplished writer with a devout online following; the fear of writer’s block never goes far away. Staring at a blank screen can be a very humbling experience that is usually followed by tasks such as pacing, pointless web-surfing, and even complete reorganizations of iTunes. You may think you have nothing to say, but the human brain is a complex organ capable of some incredible things ( just think about the deep fried Coca-Cola for a minute). Here are some tips on how you can break the ten percent brain usage myth and post more content:
Images Speak Louder than Words
If you are staring at a blank page for too long with nothing to show, chances are you’ve hit a creative roadblock. It’s a good bet that you won’t get too much writing out of [...]

Everybody loves to use throw around the buzz word “quality content.” And a simple Google Search query for “quality content” will lead you to even more discussion debating what “quality content” actually is. But forget theory… let’s get down to some nitty gritty numbers shall we?

Below is a ranking/scoring system I created for measuring Quality Content with intelligence. The basis or foundation of this scoring system relies on 3 things. 1) that this content is actually blog content rather than traditional static web content, 2) the goal for this content is to be “remarkable” and 3) the other goal is for this content to be Evergreen Content.
So… let’s get started.
1. How Was the Content Received Socially?
First I like to see how an article performed socially. Was it engaging? Did it catch people’s immediate interest? These answers and more can be answered simply by how well the article performs on a [...]

pdf version coming soon.
Far too many people to this day associate blogging with just being a “fun activity” by some homer in his basement who has no friends and nothing to do on a Saturday evening! But for many of us Blogging is serious stuff. It’s us investing into our future and for many of us… it’s our source of income.
So how do you turn your blog into more than just another blog? How do you turn your blog into a real business?
The answer from 40,000 feet is that you have to build and develop strategies around your blog. Call it a business plan if that helps you understand it better. The act of building out strategies around the content you create, the audience you attract, and the way by which you monetize the blog. All together create a business out of your blog.
The following are 9 articles that I’ve [...]

The following are 5 tests you can run to help you increase your blogs traffic, conversion rate, and SEO rankings. Testing alone will not increase these metrics however. You must record the data and learn from it. That is the key to success.
Test #1 = Increasing Traffic Through Twitter Reposting
I wanted to run a test that involved testing various Tweet Content to promote certain articles that I have had struggles getting more people to see. Sometimes your content can be great but might need a little extra effort to go viral. In this test you want to experiment with the following:

Text before the URL
Text after the URL
The Time and Day of the Tweet

Testing and analyzing your results with this can give you a tremendous amount of information about your Twitter following and will help you leverage Twitter more efficiently for the growth of your blog. I recommend using PostRank.com as a [...]