Blogging Tips

Should you switch off your blog comments?

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 15th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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A quick update of the Text Link Ads InLinks Option

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 14th, 2007 and filed under Making Money
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The right way to respond when you mess up

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 13th, 2007 and filed under Making Money
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Technorati’s authority value is now worthless

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 13th, 2007 and filed under Making Money
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Should your blogroll links have a no follow tag attached?

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 12th, 2007 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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SoloStream Free Wordpress Themes

I am a big fan of the designs from SoloStream. When I was redesigning BloggingTips I contacted Michael Pollack from Solostream for a quote for a new design. In the end I decided to change the design myself however I am planning on using one of his free themes soon for one of my blogs.

In addition to the Bosco theme I talked about last month, you can now also download …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 12th, 2007 and filed under WordPress Themes
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The Miami Affiliate Summit

The Affilliate Summit in Miami has came to a close. Unfortunately, I did not attend the event however top blogger Zac Johnson did manage to go.

Zac’s been writing recaps the last few days in his blog. At the summit he managed to meet two of my favourite bloggers, Jeremy from ShoeMoney and Jim Kukral.

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on July 11th, 2007 and filed under Making Money
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