I haven’t written any articles about how important a domain name is for any website, including a blog. When your site has a domain you have complete control over the site, its identity and its future. Not to mention the search engine benefits you lose from not having your own domain name. I dont wanna go into that too much in this post as most of you already know that a domain name is important to the long term success of your blog.

As i mentioned the other day, i…

In the last week or so it seems everyone is getting their overly concerned about the ‘No Follow’ tag that wordpress adds to commentators website link on comments they leave.

For those who don’t know, the ref=”nofollow” tag is a tag you can add to links to tell google not to follow that link.

I’f im honest im totally baffled why people are so concerned about this. I understand that people want to reward their commentators but surely any benefit from leaving your link to your comments comes from visits from that…

Matt Cutts (a google engineer) posted yesterday about google are looking at ways for people to report paid links on websites.

As it stands just now there are over 100 comments and as you can imagine, most of them are from unhappy webmasters. Basically googles looking at a way to penalise websites who sell text links directly through their websites for SEO purposes. I dont think it spells the end of sites such as text link ads but they will certainly have to change the way they work if google gets what they…

I was a little reluctant to comment at first with my name attached to this website as i wanted to work on content before doing anything along the lines of promotion. With the site slowly approaching its 100th post i now feel more comfortable taking part in some discussions as i think that the site now has enough articles to encourage people to come back.

In the space of a week i have not only got addicted to commentating, i’ve also saw the benefit of taking part in discussions on other…

I was browsing through MyBlogLog today and checked out the latest blogger to join Blogging Tip’s community. The latest blogger was a lady by the name of EJ Cooksey.

The blog is a journal of her journey to become a millionaire from blogging. If you’ve had a nosy at my about page you will know that ive been in web development for 7 years. Most websites which cover the same topics as this blog are also from experienced web developers and IT professionals such as John Chow, Brian Heys etc. I do…