If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Former international model turned celebrity chef and author, Maria Liberati will be leaving her mark on the World Wide Web with the upcoming launch of her virtual book tour for her bestseller, The Basic Art of Italian Cooking, beginning […]

You know how you’ve got all that stuff sitting in your garage that you know would be great on eBay? Do you have spare computer parts sitting around? What about a gift you got recently that you have no use for?
Why not try holding a contest on your blog to give it away to […]

When you’ve found yourself writing a particularly juicy post about a celebrity, or some news item, you should always include links at the bottom of the post to other blogs that cover the topic.
You can easily find other posts by searching through Technorati or using Google’s Blogsearch. Posting a link to those other blogs […]

Have you heard any good jokes lately? Get a particularly funny email that made you laugh? Post it! Your readers could use a good laugh on occasion, especially if you write about deeply personal or emotional subjects that aren’t exactly light hearted.

Offer your favorite bloggers (and commentors) the opportunity to write a post for your blog. You’ll get a day off from posting, and the guest blogger is likely to link to your site on their own blogs.

When faced with a decision, do you ever sit around and make lists of the pros and cons? Why not try posting those lists to your blog?
It could be anything from weighing two different new cars that you are interested in purchasing, deciding between houses when investing, to whether or not you should eat […]

Josh Dorkin has posted a great list of the top 77 mistakes that new bloggers make.
Several of the things he listed are major pet peeves of mine, including:
#6. Using Background Music
- I like my own music that I’m playing, thank you very much. Also, I don’t need everyone in the office/room with […]

For those of you who are bloggers, you have probably heard of Technorati, one of the leading social blog networking sites on the internet.
It’s the in-vogue thing to do lately to host a Favorites Exchange on your blog. It’s simple to do and can have a significant impact on the amount of traffic that […]

It may sound crazy, but the best way to get past writer’s block is to just write everything that comes to your mind, even if it’s completely crappy. Write through it and press on until the juices start flowing again. You don’t have to use everything you write, but often just the act of writing […]

Here’s a great way to generate a post: Write from the point of view from another character. Decide that today’s post will be written by an expert in archeology who has just discovered your blog in the future. Or maybe you could relay a conversation that happened to you today from the other person’s […]