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 these links - i am referrings to blogs who have dedicated advertising info pages before they have anything to…

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…

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 few years i have travelled…

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 websites outside the ‘accurate range’ who are being hit the hardest as a higher percentage of their…

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 the same person you see every morning in the mirror and…