Blogging Tips

Top 10 mistakes new bloggers make

I’ve started to notice the same mistakes recurring by new bloggers. Infact, most of these mistakes are applicable to everyone who starts a website for the first time. Unfortunately, there is a learning curve with this kind of thing and the majority of new bloggers will only learn from making these mistakes. Very few will realise that they are actually making mistakes until further down the line.

I have decided to list what …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 30th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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The importance of having keywords in your domain name

This blog has been online since March 2007 but since i changed the domain from bloggingtips.org to bloggingtips.com the blog had a little setback with regards to page rank and getting a good placing in the search engines. This didn’t really bother me too much as the site wasn’t online too long before the last PR update and the extra few months has given me more time to build up backlinks …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 29th, 2007 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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How to deal with bloggers who are trying to sneak onto the top commenators list

The top commentators list is a great way to reward those who contribute to your blog. However, it can easily be abused and before you know it you are rewarding terrible commentators instead of those who are taking the time to write good comments to your posts.

In the last two months i have noticed this happening on Blogging Tips around the second week of the month. Someone turns up around this …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 28th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Display the total number of comments your readers have left

The eagle eyed amongst you will notice that in the comment area on Blogging Tips i have added a small line of text which displays the total number of comments that the commentator has left. I actually believe that this is a very useful plugin. It shows you and other readers how often someone comments on your site. This is an easy way to remind you which bloggers are commentating frequently on …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 27th, 2007 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Links Roundup – June 26th 2007

Another week of links from the crazy world of blogging

Opinion Blogs vs Discussion Blogs – A great post from Daniel from Daily Blog Tips. At the moment i would say Blogging Tips is an opinion blog but i have written posts that are discussion based.

Faddys money earned Report – A roundup from a new blog i found called Fingers Dont Fing. The owner covers a range of subjects and …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 26th, 2007 and filed under Links
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When is the best time to post?

The best time to publish your post is something a lot of bloggers don’t spend too much thinking about however it can be a factor of a blogs success. Not a huge factor in my opinion however it certainly does make a difference.

Take tech sites like Engadget and Gizomodo for example. They tend to post a few posts in the morning and then a few more before lunchtime, with some …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 26th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Are you happy to cut out the middle man?

An advertising network is simply a middle man between someone who wants to sell advertising and someone who wants to advertise. In return the middle man gets a fee for providing this service. This fee is normally a percentage of the advertising cost however it depends on the site.

Sites such as ReviewMe, Text Link Ads, Sponsored Reviews and Pay Per Post are hugely popular amongst bloggers. Unlike Google …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 25th, 2007 and filed under Making Money
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