The best posts for bloggers that I read during the week of November 30 – December 5, 2009, are:

• Actions instead of Predictions — by Amber Naslund
• Why you owe it to the world to be your true awesome self — by Chris Garrett
• ProBlogging: 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started — by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger
• 5 Tips to Prevent Blog Wandering and Traffic Loss — Guest post at DailyBlogTips by Robb Sutton
• 4 Ways to Post Longer Tweets on Twitter — by Charnita France at BloggingTips

• From Blog to Small Business: Tips for Taking Your Blog to a Whole New Level – Guest post by Deb Ng at ProBlogger
• Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog? — by Michael Hyatt
• 10 Things to Be Grateful For — Sonia Simone at Copyblogger
• Google, Give Us Our Rank, Our Daily Bread(crumbs) — SEOBook (on Google adding breadcrumbs to search results)
• Why the New FTC Guidelines Are a HUGE Opportunity for Bloggers — David Risley (The FTC regulations go into effect December 1.)

It’s Potluck Sunday again, and I have five more “posts of the week” to share with you. Remember, you can nominate your favorite blog post in the comments section of each week’s Potluck Sunday post. I’ll pick the best ones nominated and they will be featured in next Sunday’s “Posts of the Week” post.

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This blog is still taking shape, and I’ve decided to do something a little different with the Potluck Sunday category. When I think of Sunday potlucks, I envision long tables laden with the best dishes the church cooks have to offer. So that’s what we’ll be doing at On Blogging Well for our Sunday potlucks. I read a lot of blog posts each week, and today, I’ve picked the best of the week and posted links to them here.

But, I figure there are even more and possibly better posts out there, so I’m asking for your help. If you read a fantastic blog post, please send me an email (onbloggingwell [at] gmail [dot] com) with the link or use the contact form to submit your pick. That will give us a better variety of posts to showcase each week. Any blog about any subject is eligible. And if you wrote a killer piece yourself and want to submit it, go for it! Nothing wrong with patting ourselves on the back from time to time!

And now, without further ado, here are this week’s top 5 picks: Continue reading →

You’ve launched your blog using the step-by-step plan laid out a few posts ago. Now you’re in orbit, circling the blogosphere, when suddenly, something goes wrong. Maybe you’re stuck. Maybe you’re scared. Maybe you feel overwhelmed by the whole process. Relax. Even Apollo 13′ s technical malfunction turned out okay in the end and was dubbed Nasa’s “successful failure.” Let’s go over some things that can cause blog failure, and trust me, these issues are much easier to repair than a ruptured oxygen tank.

Reasons Blogs Fail (and how to avoid them): Continue reading →