It may sound a little odd to say “Know what it is you’re writing about”, but understanding your niche goes much, much further than that.
Your niche goes well beyond the subject matter of your blog. It’s the landscape that surrounds it. It’s encompasses other blogs and bloggers who talk about the same things, readers [...]

A great way to build community and increase your subscriber numbers is to have competitions for your readers. These can take many forms, but the most common one I’ve noticed among top bloggers lately is the “$xxx Give Away”.
Now, as a blogger, you’ll probably want to devise a competition that will increase your readership, [...]