Monthly Archives: April 2007
Don’t Add an Advertising Page until your blog is established
Blogging An advertising information page is essential to any website. You don’t want potential advertisers to have to search high and low on your website to find how they can advertise on your blog. The page should be clearly displayed in your main navigation links. More and more bloggers are placing ‘Advertise here’ links underneath their google adsense and other ad areas before their blog is even established. I am not referring to ...
Continue readingGoogle PageRank Update started
Search Engine Optimisation Google has been updating their servers the last few days. You may have noticed a change in search engine traffic to your blog because of it. I hope you all did well in the new update. As i expected, BloggingTips is still too new to get a pagerank so ill have to bide my time and wait til the next update. Which is fine with me You can see what your blogs PR is on all dataservers here. Bear in mind it might be a few days more before your rank is ...
Continue readingThe Post Timestamp is going to get used to full effect
Site News I haven’t really spoke to much about myself on here but i’ll be travelling for a month soon and will be away from the computer and will have to use the fabulous time stamp feature to post articles here. First off ill explain a little about why i am in this position As some of you already know, Im from the UK but im currently living in New Zealand. Being self employed through the internet allows me a lot of freedom and over the last ...
Continue readingAdvertising Networks – Stop basing our Advertising Rates on Alexa
Promote your blog Im becoming more and more alarmed with the number of advertising networks who are using Alexa to base advertising rates for publishers. For example, Text Link Ads and ReviewMe. As you know, i have never had any faith in Alexa. The top results are pretty accurate (Alexa claim 100,000) however outside that range figures are very inaccurate and can easily be manipulated by website owners to boost their own rankings. The irony is that its the ...
Continue readingStarting a new Blog : Are you talking to yourself?
Blogging The first few months of starting your blog can be hard. You’ve yet to be indexed by the search engines, youve got 0 comments on your posts and your traffic is really low. This can be both frustrating and discouraging. The quick answer to the question ‘Are you talking to yourself?’ in the above title would be a resounding YES! There is a very good chance that your talking to yourself and the only person who reads your blog is ...
Continue readingCustomising the title bar in the head section of WordPress
WordPress Coding & Design The <title> tag in the <head> section of an html based webpage displays the title of the page you are viewing. In this post i will show you how you can display the information you want to display on your wordpress powered page. Title Bar Information The title bar is a very important part of your page. It gives information about the page that is being displayed. The title bar carries a lot of weight in search engines and how your blog ...
Continue readingQuickly check your blogs Search Engine Status on Google
Search Engine Optimisation If your a stats fiend im sure you all check your blogs status on google from time to time. This is just a quick post to highlight some of the ways you can check your blogs stats on googles. You can check Your Page Rank online using Check Page Rank, PRChecker or you can install the Google Toolbar. More information on checking page rank can be found in my post ‘Google Page Rank Tools‘ Here is a short list of commands to check ...
Continue readingDo you believe that posting too much will lose you readers?
Blogging In the last few days ive been reading a lot of posts regarding posting frequency. David Culpepper came across a post called ‘Red Queen Effect: How many blog posts are too many?‘ and wrote about it in his post ‘How Often Do You Blog?‘. Yesterday, Stark from FuzzyFuture wrote a post called ‘Is there such a thing as too much daily content?‘ and a very interested debate has started in the comments. Do you believe ...
Continue readingThis was supposed to be a review of PayPerPost
Making Money I have been eager to do a review on PayPerPost for you guys. It’s a site that has had a lot of attention in the last few months – both good and bad. Unfortunately, i have not been able to. I have signed up with 3 different emails (2 from my own domains and hotmail). I have not yet received the verification email from any of these sign ups. I contacted them with a different email again and once more ive had no reply. In a last attempt ...
Continue reading5 Tips to remember when buying a blog theme
Design & Coding Recently i have noticed a growing trend of designers and ‘would be’ designers selling blog themes through web development forums. I’ve seen a lot of grabage getting sold but i’ve also saw some cracking designs. If you want a unique design for your blog and don’t want to spend between $300-$2000 to get a unique design then buying a blog theme through a community is definately something you should consider. As i said, ...
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