Monthly Archives: May 2007
Display your RSS feed details in a prominent position
Blogging I posed the question last month ‘When should you display your feedburner rss to your readers?‘. Before you can even think about displaying the number of subscribers on your blog you need to actually encourage readers to subscribe to it. One of the most important ways to do this is to display your rss feed details in a prominent position on your blog. I have the BloggingTips RSS Feed displayed at the top right hand side of every page ...
Continue readingUltimate compressing tool!
Software & Programs I’ve blogged recently about taking better screenshots, now I’m gonna blog about a great tool, 7zip, to help you with compressing needs. This application is a must have in your blogging tools list! Every blogger sooner or later faces problems extracting various kinds of files. The most popular compressing method is zip, you will most probably be able to work with zip files. But how about others? Especially if you are using open source ...
Continue readingGuy who got a negative review going crazy on John Chow
Around The Blogosphere I know that a lot of BloggingTips readers are subscribers to John Chows Blog (including myself) however i thought that i would bring this to everyones attention to those who have missed it John did a review through reviewme recently for a site called Seven Day System. The site’s design is the same as those crappy clickbank marketing sites which promise to make you a millionaire in a short space of time with little or no effort – and ...
Continue readingPayPerPost Direct
Making Money It seems that PayPerPost are trying to steal some of ReviewMe‘s review customers with their new service PPP Direct. The Lowdown They released some details about it through the PPP Blog. Here is what they said about it : Keep more of the money you have earned If you are using ReviewMe or any competitors services you know that they charge between 50-100% markup on your post, while we charge 35% for our self service model. While I still think ...
Continue readingGet in the habit of commenting throughout your design
Design & Coding There are still a lot of blog themes out there with little or no comments in the design. If your simply uploading the theme and changing the logo then this isn’t something that you will not really have problems with. However, anything beyond that i would strongly advise adding comments throughout your design. 2 minutes adding comments to your templates and coding can save you 10-20 minutes trying to get to grips with your design again at a ...
Continue readingBlogger Identity: To Be Me Or Not To Be Me?
Blogging Rich Minx is my fifth blog, but it’s the first blog that I’ve really made an effort to update daily, promote, monetize (ha) and generally take care of with a loving but firm hand. Of those five blogs, I’ve had my picture on four and my real name on three. On Rich Minx I have my picture but not my name, so I’m half-anonymous. You might be surprised to discover that Rich Minx is not my real name. In fact, I’m female ...
Continue readingInvader Stu – Great blog design
Design & Coding I found a great little blog recently and i thought id share it with you all. It’s called Invader Stu. Its written by a man from England who moved to Holland several years ago for a job and the blog is a diary of his adventures. The blog has unique cartoons of himself in all his posts – i think its a great example of a personal blog
Continue readingComment Analysis Plugin
WordPress Plugins This is a great little plugin which displays all sorts of stats for your comments including Total comments Total pingbacks Total trackbacks Last comment Last pingback Last trackback Latest comments Latest commented posts Most commented posts It’s very easy to setup. If you want to display more information about the comments on your blog, id strongly recommend it. Download : here
Continue readingHow to develop stickyness to your blog
Blogging Let’s talk about “stickyness” today. What is it and how can it be created on your blog. A blogs success is in keeping it’s readers come back – everytime! You can buy traffic, run competitions, give away stuff or run a link-give-away offer even to get traffic. But they will never give you loyal readers. Loyal readers come back to you all the time, they love your blog, they love your writing, they love you – as ...
Continue readingDo you wanna review AdGridWork?
Promote your blog Nick Mazza from AdGridWork about me testing out his new text link exchange network and posting a review. As you all know, im still currently travelling and the most i can really do most days is quickly check my emails and the blog etc. However, i want to bring the site to readers attention and more importantly, i want some honest reviews about the network be it good or bad. Therefore what i propose is this : I want BloggingTips readers who have ...
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