In our attempt to become successful bloggers, we rely heavily on the wisdom parted to us by those probloggers who had already gone down the path that we are taking right now. However, there comes a time when some of them contradict each other – One problogger says that sponsored posting is unethical, the other says the opposite. One says that a long post could bore the readers, the other says that a long post is essential. And so on.

With all the conflict in ideas and teachings, who should we believe in? What steps should we follow in order for us to become successful?

A lot of people say that anything that is “too much” is bad. Apparently, blogging is no exception to this especially when it comes to the health of its users.

Most blogging health risks are caused by too much stress due to over-working, some are from spending too much time in front of computer. Whatever the causes are, we could clearly see that in our effort to do more, we unknowingly risk ourselves to dangers that may affect our future in Blogging.

It is already common knowledge to bloggers that any thing that is placed above the fold of your blog has the benefit of getting more exposure because it is the first thing that visitors see when they visit a blog.

With such a precious and limited space, we must know how to use every pixel wisely. It’s like having a bangketa down at Divisoria, you have other products to sell that are in your storeroom but you can only place a limited number of items on your bangketa. (…)

I notice that a lot of blogs I read nowadays are trying to update their blogs frequently than usual. I can see blogs being updated daily, some even post more than one post a day! Though this may seem a good thing, there are times that I couldn’t keep up with the tons of posts that I have to read. I end up being choked up with the posts that are needed to be consumed. *cough*
Too many posts is overwhelming

A ton of unread blog posts are actually not a pretty sight to some people. It’s a psychological effect wherein one feels overwhelmed with the number of posts that needs to be read. Another factor is that not everyone has the time to spare to read a lot of posts, especially if they are very long.

The New Year. We know that it is already near when the number of firework related accidents is increasing exponentially with each passing day or when bloggers from all over the blogosphere are doing the traditional Year Ender Posts on their blogs. Using both indicators above, I’d say we only have three more [...]

        I was checking my blog stats this morning when I noticed that my blog’s visits this past week was generally lower when compared to the average number of visits that I had during the previous weeks. I bet that this coming week won’t be any different because of the holidays. Yep, people are [...]

Ever get frustrated every time your AdSense units display advertisements that are not related to your blog’s theme or content? You know, ads like beaches and resorts showing up on your sidebar when your blog is talking about cooking?
AdSense makes use of a very powerful technology which determines what relevant ads it should display on [...]

I have mentioned on my post, Effects of a Long Blogging Hiatus, that once a blogger stops uploading posts on their blogs, their blogs will eventually deteriorate and end up in a slow and painful death.
Like I said, No new posts = Dead Blog.
But fear not, the effects of our negligence can still be undone. [...]

Scour all the problogging blogs on the blogosphere and you will find out that one of the greatest advices that they give to their readers is to consistently post on a timely basis. Simple enough, if you want your blog to be continuously visited, all you need to do is to make a post from [...]

Note: The final list of nominees for the Pinoy Blog of the Month has already been finalized. Please wait for the official list later tonight tomorrow morning!

Did you know that out of the total amount of first-time visitors that your blog gets everyday, only a percentage of it actually reads your blog and comes back [...]

The recent hullabaloo over the Desperate Housewives racist remark about Filipino medical practitioners has made quite an uproar lately. People began searching the net for news bits about the issue and most of those searches were directed to blogs who were (once again) the first ones to uncover the story.
I bet most of you [...]