Yesterday I was on a blog that had a large 350×350 animated banner ad in its sidebar. The animation was so distracting I could barely focus on reading the blog. Clean up your sidebars folks!

Being online when you write can be both a help and a hindrance – find out why getting offline can improve your personal writing style and increase your productivity.

Here’s a tip for a good quality blog: keep a journal, and keep it offline. Don’t let your blog become the record of every mundane and inane thought you have. There’s already a place for that, it’s called Twitter.

If you’re blogging about your journey, be it a health, travel, career, parenting, or some other kind of journey, for goodness sake, please blog about your journey! Sound like a dumb thing to say? If you’ve ever followed blogs that purport to be doing this, you’ll know that it’s not.