I blog about design multiple times a week at GraphicDesignBlender.com. That means I also have the opportunity to meet a lot of graphic and web designers who are working to establish their own design blogs. Sadly, more often than not, I talk to designers who are frustrated with blogging about design. Today, I’d like to explain why your design blog is failing and the success secrets that the big design blogs don’t want you to know. Why Your Design Blog is Failing I’ve worked with a lot of designers to try to help them get their design blog off the ground. And the...

Posted by randfishI've gotten to spend some time recently with folks who run small, personal blogs (including my wife, friend Kim, and a travel blogging dinner meetup SEOmoz sponsored in Seattle this week), and many of them have asked me whether SEO, in particular link building, is an activity they can take on to help grow their online presence. I can certainly empathize with the challenges - from reading many of the guides and posts about link building here on SEOmoz or elsewhere in the industry, you could be forgiven for feeling "in over your head" or that "only real businesses...

Posted by randfishLike many overly-connected web junkies, I find myself increasingly overwhelmed by information, resources and news. Sorting the signal from the noise is essential to staying sane, but missing an important development can be costly. To balance this conflict, I've recently re-arranged my daily reading habits (which I've written about several times before) and my Firefox sidebar (a critical feature that keeps me from switching to Chrome). I'll start by sharing my top 10 sources in the field of search & SEO, then give you a full link list for those interested in seeing all the resources I use. I've...

Inviting other bloggers and writers to become co-authors is one great way to expand one’s blog. Assuming the recruiting of writers part is being taken care of, the next big problem you could be facing is management. Managing multiple authors for a blog is never an easy task. It’s often a challenge to keep co-authors in control, getting them to write quality content on schedule, making sure they did not miss anything before hitting the publish button, etc. Also sometimes you might also want to give different authors different level of accessibility and controls, depending on their performances. Luckily...