Monthly Archives: May 2007
BloggingTips.com Review
Design & Coding Criticize the site you’re guest-blogging on. Yea, that’s smart (not really). What better way to help the main author, the blog, and the readers than a review? (I’m sure there are better ways, not to mention less lazy ways.) The following review of BloggingTips.com will help you make more money…somehow. Advertisements Kevin is pretty slick with the 728×15 Google Adsense ad unit. It’s right next to the main ...
Continue readingWP Designer launches a new design
WordPress Themes Future BloggingTips author Small Potato has finally updated WPDesigner with the sites new look. It really is an impressive design and is another good example of what u can do with wordpress. If your looking for some hints on making your own theme there is a great tutorial on the site here.
Continue readingDoing Sponsored Reviews the right way
Making Money Sponsored review sites like PayPerPost, ReviewMe and Sponsored Reviews are becoming part of the blogosphere and are proving popular with both advertisers and bloggers. Brian Heys gave his thoughts on sponsored posts yesterday and made some very good points. He has decided to stick with adwords and stumbleupon for now but i reckon that he would have some success with it if he chose the right blog to advertise on. Kumiko is going to review ...
Continue readingBumpZee – A MyBlogLog Alternative
Promote your blog I’m a big fan of MyBlogLog. It allows me to see who has been reading the blog and allows me to interact with them in a lot of ways. I can contact them through MyBlogLog, i can see what communties they like and i can see what other bloggers like their blog. MyBlogLog isn’t the only site out there which allows you to interact and promote your blog in this way. The alternative service which a lot of bloggers are using is called BumpZee. ...
Continue readingFlip Your Blog To Stand Out From The Crowd
Blogging As I sat down at my desk ready to write an article entitled “How To Write Quality Content†for my blog, a shocking revelation hit me and I let out an ear-piercing scream that vibrated my walls, sent stray dogs barking, and brought my neighbors knocking on my door! After taking a few deep breaths to gather my strength, I somehow managed to crawl over to the door, open it, and feebly greet my two elderly neighbors. ...
Continue readingOh No, say it isn’t so…Pop Ups are back!!!
Blogging More and more bloggers are using in-text advertising services such as Kontera to earn extra revenue on their blog. It’s something that is frustrating me more and more. Daniel from DailyBlogTips posted today that bloggers should Stay Away from In-Text Advertising. Leroy from Green Lama then posted about it and said that In-Text Advertising is Not Evil. I’m not sure where you all stand on this one but i for one agree with daniel 100% ...
Continue readingGangway Theme for WordPress
WordPress Themes Performancing have released a new clean wordpress theme called Gangway. It’s a very well designed theme which im sure would suit a lot of blogs out there (though i recommend modifying it a little to suit your blog). Name of Theme : Gangway Download : here Demo : here
Continue readingSkype Widget Plugin
WordPress Plugins This plugin was released the other week. It’s a plugin which allows you to add your skype status to your blog. There are various buttons you can display Show Call - Show the call me button. Show Add - Show the add me to skype button. Show Chat - Show the chat with me button. Show Info - Show the view my profile button. Show Voicemail - Show the leave me a voicemail button. Show Sendfile - Show the send me a file button. I use skype all the ...
Continue readingDigg have shot themselves in the foot
Blogging Just about every blog is covering this but incase you haven’t read it i thought id cover it HD DVD, a sponsor of Digg, asked Digg to remove a story which had a HD DVD key noted on it. Digg replied through their blog. Hey all, I just wanted to explain what some of you have been noticing around some stories that have been submitted to Digg on the HD DVD encryption key being cracked. This has all come up in the past 24 hours, mostly connected ...
Continue readingMaking sure good posts dont get lost in your archives
Blogging Due to the nature of blogging, there is a tendency for posts to get lost in the blogs archives. It can be incredibly frustrating when informatitve high quality posts you spend a long time writing get lost in your blogs archives. This is particularly true for posts in the first few months of a blog. Some blog genres tend to get low traffic at the weekends too, something Brian Heys brought up in his ‘Do you blog at weekends?‘ post the ...
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