Monthly Archives: July 2007
What Stops you from Writing?
Writing Most bloggers know the importance of writing, but, to actually write as much as we would like can be difficult. It is not just about writing for our own blog; we should also try to occasionally write for other blogs or ezines. The more we can write, the more we can help our blog to grow. These are some of the common Stumbling blocks to writing and what we can do to overcome them: 1. Procrastination. Procrastination is easy on the internet. We ...
Continue readingThere is no need to display your pagerank on your blog
Design & Coding A common graphic I see on a new bloggers sidebar is the PageRank button, a simple graphic which displays the pagerank of the blog. I’ve even noticed this on blogs who have a pagerank of 0! Here are two examples of these buttons : I don’t think theres any need to display your pagerank on your blog sidebar. The reason is simple, there are only two people who care about your blogs pagerank, you and your blog sponsors. Your readers do ...
Continue readingSocial Networking Is Fun – But There Are Other Ways To Get Traffic
Promote your blog Some will say links are the ultimate currency, others (like me) will say it’s about comments and conversations, but there is another type of blogger who is more into traffic and stats. So let’s try to help those a little. Most of you, who read and visit Blogging Tips on a regular basis, probably already know a lot about social networking and community sites, and how to get traffic from StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg and others. ...
Continue readingFixing the  and †problem in wordpress
WordPress Coding & Design If you recently upgraded to wordpress 2.2+ from earlier versions you may have found your posts have been all messed up with lots of Â, †and ™ characters dotted everywhere. This happened to Blogging Tips posts, I quickly removed them from all of the affected posts but I didn’t spend any time looking into what caused this to happen. Last week I helped out Elina from My Lil Venture by upgrading her blog to wordpress 2.2.1. Elina ...
Continue readingThank you PayPerPost
Promote your blog I posted a few months ago about the trouble I had with PayPerPost. For whatever reason, I was not getting any emails from them so I was unable to verify my account. I don’t know if this was caused by my ISP in New Zealand but now that I’m back in the UK everything seems fine. To make things sweeter I got an email today from PayPerPost entitled ‘Try PayPerPost on us!’. Dear Kevin, I have noticed that you created a ...
Continue readingIs content stealing on the increase?
Around The Blogosphere A week or so ago I posted about my experience with paid reviews. In the post I talked about how much traffic John Chow sent me when I got Blogging Tips reviewed there, I called this traffic jump ‘The John Chow Effect’. I think John liked the term as he posted about it a few days later detailing how websites who have been reviewed on John Chow have received similar traffic jumps. Whilst checking some back links on Technorati a few ...
Continue readingThe importance of spacing your posts out
Blogging I wrote yesterday’s CoComment post directly after my post about product reviews. I published the product reviews post right away however I held the CoComment post back a day. There was a reason for me doing this. The CoComment post was quite long so it would have pushed the product reviews post quite far down the home page. Since that post had only been online an hour and only had one comment, posting a long post would have greatly reduced ...
Continue readingRespecting friend’s privacy
Blogging I posted some pics from my travels last week. All of my friends know what I do for a living and I pre-warned most of them that there would be a chance their pic could end up on my site but posting the pics still made me think a little about the privacy of people I know. Respecting other people’s privacy is not a major concern for me with Blogging Tips because it’s not something I will post about. I have created a personal category so ...
Continue readingCoComment – The new way to track blog comments
Blogging I stumbled upon a new site today which aims to make the process of commentating on blogs quicker and easier. The site is called CoComment and after familiarising myself with it for an hour or so my initial impressions of the service are overwhelmingly positive. In short, CoComment lets you track all of the comments you have made in one place. It essentially removes the need to request updates to a blog post as you can stay updated through them. ...
Continue readingSome common SEO myths cleared
Search Engine Optimisation Some say it is a volatile field, some say it’s vast and ever evolving, some say it’s damn boring! With all these differences in opinion, there are some common myths that i found in the groups. Unanimous they were but interesting. Let’s check! - SEO’s get it done overnight. Many think that SEO is a set of rules if done over night – will get you traffic overnight. No. SEO is an experiment with some predictable results ...
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