Monthly Archives: May 2007
ProBlogger shows BloggingTips some link love
Site News As regular readers will know, im a big fan of Darren Rowse’s posts over at ProBlogger so i was quite chuffed to see Mani Karthik’s great post ‘Top 5 mistakes i did when i started blogging‘ linked in his speedlinking article the other day. It’s a good sign when the ‘Giant of Blogging’ is keeping tabs on your blog. The 45 comments to Mani’s post also highlights the volume of traffic ProBlogger gets. ...
Continue readingSEO check list to help you optimise your blog
Search Engine Optimisation Search Engine Optmization is very deep and wide a topic that any starter can get easily confused/mislead/confused by it’s complexities. From my experience, SE optimization should be done in a very step by step format, otherwise it would be difficult for you to track your returns or find out exactly as to what are the measure ables that helped you get that particular result on the SERP’s. For this reason, for all those young bloggers ...
Continue readingLinking to individual comments in WordPress
WordPress Coding & Design One important link in the comments section of wordpress is the individual comment link. If a post only has a few comments it isn’t really essential however the more comments your posts get the more helpful. The comment link allows you to link to a specific comment on a thread. This can be incredibly helpful if you are referring to the 150th comment of a post! I thought it would be useful to explain how to add this link as there are a lot ...
Continue readingText Link Ads Post Level Marketing
Making Money If you have been browsing Text Link Ads recently you may have noticed the new ‘Post Level’ option mentioned underneath publishers details (advertised as ‘Advertise on Individual Posts ‘). When you browse a blogs posts, it states the name of the post, its link popularity and the cost to advertise per month. The ads tend to be cheaper but other than that they seem to work the same way as the regular system. Most PR ...
Continue readingLink Roundup – 15th May 2007
Links Another week, another week of good links to bring to your attention. Bookmark Bliss: The Massive List of Web Design Resources – Chris Smart writes a list longer than Jake the Snakes favourite pet. Includes loads of great css and web development resources:) How to write great comments – Great post from Mani Karthik in which he tells readers how and why he started writing great comments on blogs. Feeling The Power Of Google PageRank 6 ...
Continue reading$10,000 Copywriting Contest
Competitions, Making Money How’s this for an irresistable offer? CopyBlogger is offering $10,000 in prizes for, you guessed it, creating an irresistable offer. The judges are astounding – Seth Godin, Darren Rowse, and CopyBlogger’s Brian Clark. Who could resist the offer of the notoriety? How much traffic will the winner get as a result of winning? Who could use an extra $10,000? I’m in
Continue readingTop 5 mistakes i did when i started blogging
Blogging Hi All – I have a question. When you compare your early days of blogging to what you are today – Is there anything that you wish, you hadn’t done? I started blogging just an year back and today when i look back, there are certain things that i wish i shouldn’t have done. I won’t call them mistakes – but rather “Experiences”, because those are the things that taught me a lesson or two. 1 – I ...
Continue readingThe best thing I ever did to improve my technorati rank was…
Promote your blog The best thing I ever did to improve my technorati rank on Facibus On Blogging was to enter a writing competition. I know that most of the links are just reciprocal “spreading the love” swaps, but I have more RSS subscribers as a result, and more traffic through to my other blogs. Like guest blogging, entering writing competitions can get you great bang for your effort buck. The hard way to blog is to write a heap of low-quality ...
Continue readingRobots.txt basics
Search Engine Optimisation The Robots.txt file is used to direct search engines to the content you want them to see and block the content you dont want them to see. It can also be used to block search engines you specify from crawling your site altogether. Robots.txt Basics To make a robots.txt file all you need to do is open notepad (or any other text editor) and save the file as robots.txt:) You can place a robots.txt file on any directory in website however the most ...
Continue readingBlogging should be easy
Blogging Whether you run a personal blog or a topic specific blog one thing should be certain : ‘Blogging Should be Easy!‘. There will be the odd time when you are struggling with what to write but generally speaking you should not have any problems with coming up for ideas for your blog. If you are struggling for post ideas or have lost interest in your blog altogether then your either blogging about the wrong thing or blogging just ...
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