When you use WordPress you're given the choice when publishing between doing it as a "post' or as a "page". Posts go up on your blog while "pages' are static pages that you can publish without it having to go up on your blog.

There's a lot of reasons why you might choose a post over a page or a page over a post (that's for another post) - but today I thought I'd highlight a few "pages' that I have here on ProBlogger as examples of pages that bloggers might want to develop to promote their blog to different groups of people. Some are more essential in my mind than others but all have been helpful in the development of my own blogs.

Blogging for many people, perhaps the majority, is a fun hobby.

Most people also know that you can make money from blogging. Directly through ads, or indirectly through selling products and services. There are also PR benefits from having a business blog.

Are there real impact-the-bottom-line benefits to personal blogging?

I'm busy with some other projects now and instead of leaving the blog alone for several days, I thought I'll do a quick post on a helpful tool that I've been using for more than a year.

It's called Dark Room and its a minimalist fullscreen word processor which forces you to focus on the writing process and nothing else.

Part of the reason so many people beg, borrow, and steal for search engine traffic is because so many people have the same thin business models offering the same stuff. Rather than thinking of ways to differentiate or look within for ways to increase value, we figure just getting a couple more links will be all we need to do well. And it may be in the short term, but that is not enough to stay competitive.

Introducing Answer Sniper

I just came across AnswerSniper, a $147 software product created to help you find open questions to answer on Yahoo! Answers by keeping you up to date with the latest open questions for keywords you select. Can you imagine paying for software for the privilege of finding questions that need answered, and then trying to be the first person to answer each of them?

Recently I have noticed a trend on a number of blogs. It goes something like this...

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Hmmm. Asking random visitors to register an account when they only want to leave a one-off comment is a huge ask. Especially when there is a good chance registration requires email based activation, which takes even more time to deal with.

Over the past year alone, I can't count how many hundreds of people who have told me that they've just decided to make "beginning blogging" be their blog's focus. They wanted me to tell them what I thought of their plan.

I told them they weren't done, yet.

Yes, this news can be crushing, but let's look at the example of creating a blog for beginner bloggers. Most summarize their blog's plan of action with this purpose statement:

If you are struggling for content or want to expand the number of posts your blog has, having regular features that highlight existing content, whether on your blog or elsewhere, is a good approach. Below are some of the most common and popular features that you can implement on your site.

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Posted by randfish

We're just not getting any visitors from the search engines...

I probably hear that line 30X or more each week - over email, in phone calls, in conversation, on forums, etc. and to tell the truth, it would be really handy to have a resource I could point folks for some self-diagnosis. If only there were some type of medium that I could publish on... one that would be accessible on some sort of computerized system... maybe a net of interconnected pages... one the whole world could access... like a... world... wide... oh, hang on a tick.

Filed under: Internet, Office, Web services, Google, web 2.0Google has rolled out two new features for Google Docs, the company's online word processing application. The first is a new improved menu toolbar. Well, improved might be a subject term. To be perfectly honest, it doesn't appear to add a whole lot of new features. But it looks far more like the menu toolbar you'd expect to find in a desktop application, complete with File, Edit, Insert, Format, Tools, and Table options.