Monthly Archives: August 2007
To theme or not to theme?
Blogger, Blogging, Personal, Writing You see the word ‘blog’ a lot these days. It seems like everyone has a blog, from grandmothers to garden supply stores. What started out as a few bored geeks posting online diaries has rapidly grown into a phenomenon that’s difficult to describe. Just what constitutes a blog? Can a series of posts about a company’s product, peppered with links and keywords and SEO terms, really be considered in the same category as a thirteen year ...
Continue readingGain Automatic Links with WP-Backlinks
WordPress Plugins Doing a link exchange with blogs similar to yours is a great way to build backlinks and give your blog a good shot at increasing its PageRank but the problem with a link exchange is it takes a lot of work for what really is a small result. So I was glad to come across a perfect plugin for bloggers serious about SEO, WP-Backlinks. This plugin turns a small area of your sidebar into a powerful link exchange application. And because its a WordPress ...
Continue reading10 Ways to Get More Interaction from Your Readers Today
Blogging Getting your readers actively involved on your blog will have several positive effects. Active readers are much more likely to regularly read your posts rather than skipping over them in their RSS reader. Involved readers will also be more loyal and probably long-term subscribers. Additionally, they will make your posts more interesting to other readers by adding valuable insight and simply showing that you have an interested audience. So how ...
Continue readingHow to apply for a blogging position
Writing In the space of 2 days I have received around 20 emails via my ad on the problogger boards for some new authors on Blogging Tips. One of the things that has astounded me is how little time some bloggers spend on their application email for a blogging position. Your first email to a company is the most important one, they do not know who you are so your first email determines their first impression of you and if that impression isn’t good ...
Continue reading10 things that you shouldn’t assume about your blog
Blogging Many a times, you stumble upon that one appealing blog – while you are surfing through the “virtual blog junk” so to say! The copy seems to be very appealing ,the content – unique and brilliant! “How come i didn’t ever hear about such a guy?” – you think. And then you look at the “stats” – Feedburner stats – less than 60 Comments – Gloriously 0 on majority of the posts ...
Continue readingIt’s not all rosy being a full time blogger
Blogging David Peralty wrote a fantastic post a few days ago entitled ‘Con’s of Being a Problogger‘. I can relate to what he has said much I honestly believe he drugged me and got me to write the post for him! It’s refreshing to see someone cover one of the cons of being full time on the web as all we ever see are posts raving about how great it is. Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do and I don’t think I could ever go ...
Continue readingSecond video blog from Nate & Josh
Video Blogging Nate Whitehill and Josh Mullineaux have released their second video podcast. I like the way Nate & Josh are doing these videos. They are completely honest about who they are and what they do, they haven’t got much experience with video blogging but they are improving with every video and are listening to the feedback from visitors. I’m sure the videos will continue to improve over the next few months. Enjoy!
Continue readingHiring a writer – Cost vs Quality
Writing A few months ago I posted on a forum that I was looking for some authors for BloggingTips. I didn’t find anyone at that time so I put it to the side until Mark from 45n5 posted about how he is hiring a writer for one of his blogs, this inspired me to get off my lazy ass and get something done about it. Most of the writers I contacted were quoting a few hundred dollars a month for posting so I was a bit skeptical at first when Mark assured ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup August 7th 2007
Links A roundup of some of the best blogging related articles in the last week Are You Tired of the Google.com Domain? – Have you checked out xxxdisc.net? Conduct an About Page Audit – Darren Rowse talks about giving your about page an update. Something I need to do!! Q&A Round 2 8-6-2007 – ShoeMoney answers readers questions once again 10 free ways to gain exposure for a young blog – A good list of tips for those who are ...
Continue readingA post about commentating
Blogging There has been a few posts about commentating in the last week from myself and from blogs I subscribe to so I thought it would be best to address all of these in the one post On July 31st I announced that the top commentators list was being removed from Blogging Tips. I made this decision as I noticed that every month since I installed the plugin there has been one or two bloggers who have turbo commentated their way to the top of the list and ...
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