Having an active, frequently updated blog is the secret to success in this business. It will attract visitors and advertisers, providing good content on a regular basis. Although there are people who claim that posting 3-5 articles/day (especially if they’re long) might cause your readers to feel “overwhelmed”, posting daily is still an excellent idea. Still, even 1 post a day can become a burden and it takes TIME and EFFORT nevertheless. Read more

I’ve been blogging for the past 3 years. My Romanian blog is pretty well known, with a decent traffic and community. I’ve learned a lot of tricks these years and of course have made the biggest mistakes ever. One of these was to be inconsistent with my writing. I’d write 4-5 articles in one day (well, inspiration was sometimes generous) or keep the blog inactive for 2 weeks. HUGE MISTAKE! For the past 3 months I’ve made myself a new schedule on that blog. I write DAILY. No excuses, just 1 article/day, at least. My traffic DOUBLED. On this blog … Continue reading →

We can refer here to promoting a site, to posting information on the forums or updating our nice blogs. It is important to kick start them with some content and try to keep up the content adding in a REGULAR way. This “regular” should be our main word in here.Having some “content writing sprees” is OK for the first days when we need to create information and post it. Afterwards we get into the so called “maintenance” phase when we need to keep up the posting rhythm and sustain the site’s growth.

I think my fingers got numb for the tens of times I had to write the same thing regarding this ongoing battle: content or theme. In any site’s case, people start realising a good layout is very important, but still many forum owners have a problem understanding the obvious: A GOOD THEME is important too. Why do we have to chose? Chose what? Why do you people think that ONLY content is what you need? You start a forum because you have ideas for content and the forums stays open because of that content. If you’re not able to keep … Continue reading →