Blogging Tips

Don’t Add an Advertising Page until your blog is established

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 29th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Google PageRank Update started

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 29th, 2007 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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The Post Timestamp is going to get used to full effect

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 29th, 2007 and filed under Site News
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Advertising Networks – Stop basing our Advertising Rates on Alexa

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 28th, 2007 and filed under Promote your blog
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Starting a new Blog : Are you talking to yourself?

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 27th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Customising the title bar in the head section of Wordpress

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 27th, 2007 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Quickly check your blogs Search Engine Status on Google

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on April 27th, 2007 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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