Monthly Archives: July 2007
5 Essential CSS Tools for Bloggers
CSS The rise of personal publishing (a.k.a. blogging) in recent years is due, in large part to popular platforms like MovableType (my first love), WordPress, ExpressionEngine, Drupal, etc. and their elimination of the need for a web publisher to have any technical skills. All that is required to start a blog is an account at a hosted service like WordPress.com or TypePad.com. In fact, these are wonderful ways to enter the blogging fray. But Blogging ...
Continue readingReview the reviews
Promote your blog When I wrote about my experience with paid reviews a few days ago I didn’t realise that very few people have actually did such a thing. The post proved very popular and quickly got a lot of pingbacks. It also inspired John Chow to talk about the subject in his post Share Your Experience with Paid Reviews. It appears that up until now, very few people have actually talked about their experience with paid reviews which is kind of surprising ...
Continue readingImproving your writing
Writing Blogging is all about content, it’s all about writing. Yet it’s one of the things that most bloggers neglect and rarely try to improve. Truth being told, I’m more guilty than anyone else when it comes to taking time out to improve my writing. A week or so ago there were a few comments left on some of the posts I wrote asking for me to improve my writing. More specifically, I was using the lowercase i instead of I in most of my ...
Continue reading$200 Forum referral competition
Competitions I thought I would use this months competition to promote the Blogging Tips Forums. The competition is incredibly easy.:) All you need to do is refer new members to the forums using your referral code. The top 4 referrers will each get $50 via paypal. Thats it! Your unique referral link code can be found here (you need to be signed in). The code will look something like http://www.bloggingtips.com/forums/index.php?referrerid=X where X is your ...
Continue readingMy experience with paid reviews
Promote your blog I have no doubt that a good percentage of Blogging Tips readers found the blog because of a paid review on another site. In total I have so far paid for 8 reviews over a period of about 6 weeks and since I don’t plan on getting any more reviews for a while I thought it was as good a time as any to talk about my experience with this advertising medium. Six of the paid reviews were through ReviewMe and 2 of the reviews were paid directly via ...
Continue readingBlogging Tips Authors – A brief update
Site News I haven’t spoke about guest authors for a while at Blogging Tips however it’s something which I hope plays a big part in the success of the blog. Although I am happy to have guest authors write a one-off post, I am looking more towards authors who can commit to writing on a more regular basis. Currently, Mani from Daily SEO Blog is the first person to commit to this. Mani’s blog has been active since September 2006 and has ...
Continue readingText Link Ads InLinks Option
Making Money I decided a few days ago that I would start selling text link ads here a month or so before the blog gets a page rank. Whilst submitting the blog to Text Link Ads I was asked if i wanted to try the inLinks advertising method. This happens at Step 4 of adding a new site to TLA. Here are the screens you will see if choose to use this advertising method with Text Link Ads. I read about this advertising option in May but if im honest, I didn’t ...
Continue readingWordPress Version 2.2 Hack Warning
WordPress I’ve came across a few posts in the last day or so who have spoke about Russian hackers trying to hack into older versions of WordPress. Garry Conn had around 100 of his blogs hacked due to a security hole in WordPress 2.2. I strongly encourage all WordPress users to upgrade to version 2.2.1 if you have not already done so. You might have to be pretty unlucky to get hacked but 15 minutes out of your day to do an upgrade is nothing compared ...
Continue readingAdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System for WordPress
WordPress Plugins I found out about the Adsense sharing plugin for wordpress about a month ago but I haven’t got round to posting about it until today. Basically, the plugin allows you to give a % of google adsense earnings of author’s articles to the author. You can set this right up to 100% if you want. I installed it at the time but i didn’t test it out. Upon checking the website for documentation today i realised that the site was down. ...
Continue readingBad Blogging Practice : Not adding a datestamp to your posts
Blogging I read a post a month or so ago which suggested that removing the datestamp from blog posts was a good idea. I’ve not been able to locate this post so I’m unable to provide you all with a link however I do recall that one of the the author’s main reasons for removing the datestamp was so that blog posts do not become outdated. You may have read some blogs encouraging you to remove the datestamp from your posts but I strongly ...
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