Monthly Archives: July 2007
The power of product reviews
Promote your blog One of the most powerful ways to drive traffic to a blog is to write a product review. This is done frequently by technology based blog’s however it can be used by any type of blog. A music blog could review the latest guitar pedal, a parenting blog could review the latest baby toys, a sports blog could review the latest DVD and just about any blog could do a review about a book which covers their topic. Why are product reviews so good at ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – July 17th 2007
Links Hope you enjoy this weeks roundup Page Views – Are they Dead? – Darren brings up some good points here. Are page views relevant for blogs? How can interlinking benefit your blog? – A good post from Mani about interlinking. SEO Guide – A complete guide to search engine optimisation from Chirs Beasley (AKA Aspen). 10 free promotion ideas – Crystal brings you ten ways to promote your site or blog that won’t cost ...
Continue readingGoogle are hypocrites
Around The Blogosphere I’m sure that most readers are aware that John Chow got penalized from Google last month. The number one theory and the one which is probably right is that Google are punishing him for his ‘Make Money Online’ linkback campaign. From the very start of this blog I have been very critical of John using this technique to gain traffic as the only one who seemed to benefit from it was John Chow. Some bloggers seem to be very pleased ...
Continue readingIncreasing your productivity
Blogging I wasn’t online online as much as I usually am at the weekend because I got my new laptop delivered. After installing everything I needed onto my new laptop and transferring all of my files I quickly realised how much my blogging is going to get easier. Before I went travelling last November the motherboard in my desktop pc burned out so since then I have been using my Sony T250, a 1.2GH centrino laptop with a 10.6″ screen. Whilst it ...
Continue readingIs It Possible To OD On Plugins?
WordPress Plugins If you run a WordPress blog then chances are you love plugins. Plugins make life easy. They help organize your blog: the comments, the posts, the sidebar, the SEO. But with thousands of different plugins, is it possible to overdose? Have you caught yourself uploading multiple zip files to your plugins directory, only to forget what you’re adding? You Know You’re ODing on Plugins When… You spend more time with your plugins than ...
Continue readingShould you switch off your blog comments?
Blogging Kumiko from Cash Quests recently turned off her comments for a week to see what difference it made to her blog. She has decided to keep comments switched off for the time being. This is an interesting topic which I have read some posts on recently. Kumiko’s decision to switch off blog comments gives me a good live example of the pros and comments of doing this. Why Kumiko has decided to switch her comments off Kumiko has explained her ...
Continue readingA quick update of the Text Link Ads InLinks Option
Making Money I got an email yesterday from Text Link Ads informing me that the text links were not being displayed on one of my sites. It turned out to be a blank file caused by moving server a few days ago. I fixed it pretty quickly but after 6 or 7 hours my stats were not reflecting the ads being live so I dedicated to give them a call. The stats problem was quickly resolved so I asked a few questions about the Text Link Ads InLinks Option, the inlinking ...
Continue readingThe right way to respond when you mess up
Making Money I have been a text link advertiser on CSS Elite for about 3 months now. I was checking some backlinks yesterday and I quickly realised that my text link had been removed from the site. I checked a cached version of the blog from last week and Blogging Tips was not listed. I contacted Todd about it and expressed my dissapointment in the situation. Todd emailed me back very quickly and apologised for the link being down. His template had a maximum ...
Continue readingTechnorati’s authority value is now worthless
Making Money I spoke in April about why I believe advertising networks should stop using Alexa to determine rates for publishers. Jonathan from SmartWealthyRich got me thinking about the subject again with his post ‘Why I Feel Like Breaking Up With Alexa‘. More recently I talked about my dislike for viralink.It seems that the viralinker’s have won, well perhaps they have not won but they have definately succeeded in making the Technorati ...
Continue readingShould your blogroll links have a no follow tag attached?
Search Engine Optimisation Tejvan from Net Writing commented in my google page predictions post that he noticed some sites having a fall in page rank even though they have been getting more back links. A huge factor in determining page rank is the page rank of the websites that are linking to you so it is possible to increase backlinks to a blog but still get a lower page rank if the page rank of the pages that are linking to you are reduced. However, a more common reason ...
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