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Do you need content for your blog? Try a Guest Blog from a guest author!

Date: 19th May 2010
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InvitationIt's not always easy finding the time or the ideas for new blog posts, and that's where Guest Bloggers come in. A guest blogger will write a post for your blog that is of interest to your readers, but also promotes them or their services. Usually this means that your guest author would have services or products that are complementary to yours, rather than competitive – after all who wants to openly promote their competitors?

With this in mind, I have a number of guest authors available for blogging opportunities – please drop me a line to nikki@nikkipilkington.com if you are interested in guest posts from any of the following:

You’re not blogging for YOU, you’re blogging for THEM!

Date: 18th May 2010
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268/365 - Default StateIt's a common mistake, and a common question:

Nikki, I find it really hard to blog – I'm running out of things to say about my business!

When you start a blog you're usually all gung-ho – you'll blog every couple of days, there's loads to say about your accountancy services / nappy website / building company etc etc. And at first it's easy. You blog about your great products and services, new clients, special offers and more. But then it gets a little harder – every blog seems to be the same, the readership has trailed off, comments have come to a halt and you wonder why you bother.

5 blog headlines from today’s newspapers

Date: 13th May 2010
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News Paper Origami Dragon MonsterOne of the issues that a lot of people have when writing blogs is that they can't think of anything to write about. One way to stimulate the creative juices and come up with ideas is to scan through the news. Just reading a few news stories can give you something to write about, so let's see what headlines we can find for blog posts today, and what sort of blogs could be written:

 

Recommended Wordpress Plugin – Facebook ‘Like’ Button

Date: 23rd April 2010
Comments: 7 Related Categories: Blogging, Freebies, facebook
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Since Facebook announced that they were offering the functionality for website oweners to have 'Like' buttons on their non Facebook content, the race has been on to develop a plugin.

We've found two so far.

  • Facebook Like Wordpress Plugin V1 (link goes directly to zip file) – this puts a Like button at the top or bottom of your posts (we've put it at the bottom( of ours as you can see). You can change the size and a few other options, which makes this one our favourite. You can find out more about this plugin on this blog post written by the creator.

299 Steps to Blogging Heaven – pre order now!

Date: 20th April 2010
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We’re really excited here at NikkiPilkington.com because we’ve finally finalised (!) the content for our newest ebook, 299 Steps to Blogging Heaven.

299 Steps to Website Heaven was a great success, with over 11,000 downloads, and even though it’s now out of date, we still get asked for it every day, and we know it’s helping people promote their websites properly.

299 Steps to Blogging Heaven aims to be just as helpful, with step by step guides, hints and tips to make your blog the best it can be.

Find out:

  • Which blogging platforms work best in search engines