Here are 5 tips to help you gain readership and engage your audience:
1. Keep it simple. No one wants to read one huge, long paragraph or a book chapter. Instead, take your ideas, simplify them. Another option is to break them up into separate posts, bulleted lists, or short paragraphs.
2. Use photos to your advantage. [...]

It’s time for another Dear BAKERY installment— today we’re discussing the beauty [and ugly] of social networking sites:
Dear BAKERY,
My question is this… I have been blogging seriously for about 5 months and am getting a reasonable amount of traffic, however in order to attract more readers I have been looking into (and joining a few [...]

Now that you’re able to track your site visitors, what about those people who just read your blog directly from an RSS reader? How do you count those as visits? Well, luckily there are a few services out there that are able to help you measure who reads your posts via RSS, what links are [...]

I read a verrrry interesting article on Wall Street the other day entitled “America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers For Hire.” A few interesting stats:
Our nation houses almost 20 million bloggers.
1.7 million of these bloggers make moolah from their blogs [my words, not WSJ's].
452,000 blog as a primary source of income [I'm included here!].
50% are aged 18-34.
44% [...]