Monthly Archives: May 2007
Links Roundup – May 22nd 2007
Links How to Select the Best Keywords for SEO and PPC – Rob Wood writes a nice little post to help you understand the keywords you should be targeting for your blog. Profit From A Niche Right Now – A Step By Step Guide – A fantastic post from Jane May which shows you how to target niche keywords and popular terms. How to make a Sure-Shot Link exchange request? – Mani gives some very good tips on finding the right blog to ...
Continue readingPing without the Pong – How to ping your blog to the top
Promote your blog When you publish one of your posts your blogging software should notify some ping services that you have added more content to your blog. There are numerous pinging services on the web. Basically pinging works like this : You publish a new post on your blog Your blog notifies one or more pinging services the pinging service then lets blog search engines know that there is new content on your blog By default, WordPress only uses one service to ...
Continue readingFinding the right balance between Blogging, Design & Promotion
Blogging It’s only a week til i set off on my travels for a month. The last week has been hectic for me to say the least and this week is gonna be more crazy:) As well as blog posts i have published this week, i have also written about a dozen more to be posted when im travelling (Infact, im writing this on May 7th and im timstamping it to publish on the 21st!). First and foremost, the main success of any blog is the content however it’s a ...
Continue readingUnderstanding the WordPress Sidebar
WordPress Coding & Design The sidebar is a very important part of your blog. It appears on every page of your blog and is usually the main method visitors use to navigate around your blog. The sidebar code may seem quite daunting at first but when you take the time to break it down, its very easy to understand. I hope this guide will help you understand the sidebar more and will help you modify it to your needs. A look at the basic code of the Sidebar Some themes use a ...
Continue readingFrappr – See where your visitors come from
Blogging Frappr! is a useful tool which can be added to your blog, myspace or website. Its a very simple idea. You place the code on your website and you and your readers can see where all your readers are from. You can see this information in Google Analytics but it isn’t just a dot marking where visitors are from – your visitors can join and can add a picture of themselves and a link to their blog too. The site is still in beta stage but i ...
Continue readingVote for my Spicy Fuelled Blog
Promote your blog There are loads of blog communities where you can vote for your favourite blogs. I thought i would bring attention to two of the most popular sites – FuelMyBlog and Spicy Page. Both of these sites work very in a similar way to Digg. You place an image on your blog to vote for your blog like the image to the right. Fuel My Blog FuelMyBlog reminds me of those million dollar websites that sprung up a year or so ago – you know the ones ...
Continue readingWP Text Ads Plugin For WordPress
WordPress Plugins I found a new plugin via Jakel called WP Text Ads. In brief, the plugin lets you sell text ads directly on your blog posts and pages. You can download a limited version of the plugin for free however the full commercial version is $127 (how did they come up with that figure?). Clearly, this plugin is aimed at blogs with good traffic so in that respect $127 is pretty good value – i dont think it would take too long to recoup the cost of ...
Continue readingResponding to a post on another site through your own blog
Blogging I really enjoy reading blogs and comment frequently on them as well. Most of my comments are a paragraph or too long however i have found myself reducing the number of very long comments i write. The main reason is that i post them here! Take this post for example. I read a really good post on Brian Heys blog the other day about sponsored reviews. I started to write a long comment in reply but i found myself writing more and more and his post ...
Continue readingTake better screenshots!
Software & Programs While blogging we come across many nice and useful websites and softwares, being bloggers we want to write about them. Most of us still using Print Screen and then going to either Paintbrush or Photoshop to copy the screenshot, edit it and save it. Using Photoshop is good, the images come out the quality you want but you must be willing to deal with the slow response of the applications, since Photoshop requires a lot of resources. It also takes ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.2 is released
WordPress Just a quick post to let all wordpress blog owners know that WordPress 2.2 has been released. You can download the new release here. Since im still on the road i wont be able to upgrade for a few weeks however this might not be too bad a thing. The evil genius John Chow has had a chance to upgrade though and posted about the release two days ago. Unfortunately, John ran into a few minor problems with his sidebar widgets so it might be worthwhile ...
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