Monthly Archives: July 2007
Another self review of BloggingTips.com
Site News 2 weeks after I first launched BloggingTips I posted a self review, a quick post about the direction I wanted the blog to go. It’s been about 4 months since that review so I think it’s as good a time as any to have a look at how the blog has faired and what I hope to achieve in the future One of the biggest problems that I faced when I started this blog was time, or more specifically lack thereof. Since I cut my travels short time is ...
Continue reading30 Day Challenge
Blogging Mark from 45n5 released another video blog yesterday in which he talked about the 30 Day Challenge. You can see the video below (originally posted here) : After watching Mark’s video and the video on the 30 Day Challenge site, I was convinced to try it out. What is the 30 Day Challenge? The aim of the 30 Day Challenge is to help bloggers reach $10 income a day through their blog within 30 days. I do not want to talk too much about that ...
Continue readingWordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin
WordPress Plugins Techie Buzz have recently released a plugin called WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. The plugin was designed to update your blog to the latest version of WordPress automatically through your blog admin area. Here is what WPAU does; 1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it. 2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it. 3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it. ...
Continue readingIf you’re reading this on an RSS reader-you’re a loser !
Blogging All of us provide feeds and all of us subscribe – We are networked. But if you are reading all those blogs from the reader, you are isolated(like an island) and you are a loser. I’m trying to discuss the topic – The benefits of reading blogs outside the reader. I have 76 feeds in my reader,and i know this isn’t any great number – JohnTP reads almost 100 everyday. Darren(actually his kid) has admitted that he reads ...
Continue readingCPA with Google Adsense – A new way to make money with Google Referrals
Making Money Tom LeDree brought this to my attention in the forums. I haven’t seen this publicised elsewhere so I thought I’d give you all a a brief summary of the new options you have with referrals in Google Adsense. In a nutshell In short, Google Adsense now offers CPA affiliate marketing. CPA stands for Cost Per Action which basically means you qualify for a payment if the action is completed. The CPA is different for every site, for example ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – July 24th 2007
Links Another quick post filled to the top with good blogging posts Pick a Niche, Any Niche – North X East looks into why you should pick a niche for your blog. 5 Steps to Writing the Best Blog Posts Possible – A post from a few months ago but all the points are still valid I’m Not A Big Fan Of Blog/Product Reviews – Here’s An Alternative – Joanthan tells us why he isn’t planning on doing paid reviews on his blog. ...
Continue readingLet your readers know who wrote your post
Blogging I’ve noticed that some bloggers do not have any details of the author on their posts. Even if all the blog posts are all written by the same person on a blog I still like to see the name of the author attached to posts. At Blogging Tips I have the name of the author at the top and at the bottom of a post so that everyone knows who wrote the post. I think that it’s important to let people know the name of the author so that they can ...
Continue readingDon’t worry too much if your posting frequency drops
Blogging I used to assume that if a blog which posts daily had no updates for a few weeks then subscribers would start unsubscribing. I now believe that assumption to be completely wrong. To help explain why my view on this has changed please take a look at John TP’s Blog. John has recently had problems with power cuts and has been unable to post as often. Infact he has only posted once in the last month. Has the number of subscribers to ...
Continue readingIncrease the chances of your posts being stumbled
Promote your blog I’ve known about StumbleUpon for a long time but I never used it on a regular basis. Last month I noticed that StumbleUpon is actually sending me a lot of my daily traffic but it was only when my best friend recommended it that I began to realise how useful it is (my friend has nothing to do with web development or blogging, he recommended it as he uses it to find games and clips etc). After stumbling across one of my own posts I asked ...
Continue readingRemove the clutter from your blog
Design & Coding I have been speaking with Elizabeth from Table for Five about her blog the last few days. Elizabeth is hoping to increase her pagerank to 5 in the next few months. One of the first things I noticed about her blog was the amount of clutter in the blog design, infact I’ve noticed this on a number of blogs recently. What is clutter? I define blog clutter as something that : Does not offer any value to your reader (eg. pagerank button) ...
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