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Chris McElroy AKA NameCritic's Articles in Blogging

  • Blogging On Free Hosts Not A Good Idea
    This article is about blogging and why you should never blog on a free host like blogger.com or wordpress.com I am writing this to alert people out there who are building blogs on free blog hosts like blogger.com and wordpress.com

    Installing wordpress is free and gives you full control over your blog. There are other platforms like moveable type to choose from as well. Take a look around and find the platform you like or that best fits your blogging style. I've learned an ...
  • Blogheads
    For those of you who haven't yet started a Blog, you won't understand. You weren't there man! Just trying one Blog will get you hooked. Sure, you say you're just experimenting with blogging.

    Then soon, you are blogging everyday. You wake up trying to search around to see who has commented on your Blog. Then it gets to be a 3 or 4 blogpost a day habit, and you're still saying, "I can quit anytime I want".

    Then you decide to try different types of Blog. You have your pers...
  • Six Quick Ways Your Website Benefits From Blogging
    In this article I’m going to give you six ways that having a blog helps your website. There are a lot more reasons to start a blog, but this article has to do with the benefits to your website.

    1. A blog on the same domain name, (as part of your website like yourdomainname.com/blog) can help you add fresh content to your website without having to know html. Fresh daily or even weekly content can keep the search spiders coming back more often. Writing your blog posts on the...
  • Getting Blog Links
    A lot of time is spent by bloggers trying to get other blogs to link to them. A lot of traffic can be gained by doing this with blogs that are both related to your topic and blogs that have a lot of readers.

    This can sometimes be very difficult for new bloggers because they do not yet have enough readers or page rank to interest the bigger blogs.

    Talk to other bloggers who are in the same position as you right now and develop a lasting relationship. You link to them, th...

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