Are are some ideas on how to create blog content that will improve traffic and rankings for your blog. High ranking content can be simplified through these simple key points that you may want to keep in mind as you blog.

These important points for high ranking content are:

Know Your Niche
Know Your Keywords
Write To Inform
Watch Your Stats

Know Your Niche
Before you start you should research your niche and know your niche. I recommend grabbing surveys and review statistics on market trends and behaviors happening within your niche and those happening around your niche. This is great info that will be useful in guiding your topics or it can help you understand how to position yourself within your niche when you open your blog for business.

If you've been a player in a particular niche already ...   more »

Hi everyone,

Today I'd would like to post a public apology to Sheila Coggins. For those of you who don't know Sheila, she is the publisher and Weblog Guide at About.com. You can read her here: Sheila Coggins

I published an article entitled How To Blog 102. In the article I cite her work but I did not give proper attribution or link to the article in question regarding blogging styles.

I am issuing this apology publicly because my error was public. This is poor blogging etiquette and is totally my error. Understandably Sheila is upset and has accused me of being a thief posing as a blogger. This is obviously untrue but I take responsibility for my mistake and acknowledge the disservice done to Sheila.

Sheila is an outstanding publisher and does fantastic work at Weblogs@About.com. Sheila, ...   more »