Monthly Archives: September 2007
What’s Your Point? How to Write Like You Have One
Writing Do You Have a Point? Each blog post you write should make a single, unified point that stays with the reader afterwards. But sticking to the point is harder than it seems. We easily get distracted by our own thoughts as we write. Too often, the strong point we wanted to make became diluted because of undisciplined writing, and doesn’t have the impact we wish. Working against a checklist of tips can help you narrow your blog posts’ ...
Continue readingDisplay the latest posts from your favourite bloggers on your blog
WordPress Plugins Yes, BloggingTips does not give enough coverage to non WordPress blogging platforms and yes, the last post on BloggingTips was about a WordPress Plugin. However, this is such a useful plugin and it is something which I think many of you will install on your blog so I had to post about it The plugin I am referring to was written by Sarah of Stuff by Sarah and is called ‘What Others Are Saying‘. The plugin allows you to display the ...
Continue readingReplace your keywords with links
WordPress Plugins CashQuests today posted about a great plugin for WordPress called Link a Dink. The plugin is very straight forward. It allows you to replace words in all of your blog posts with links you specify. Obviously this has a lot of benefits. From a money making point of view, you could replace keywords with affiliate links etc. As Kumiko suggested in her post, you could also sell your most popular keywords to advertisers. If I was going to install it I ...
Continue reading‘What’s the future of Blogging’ Competition Winners
Competitions Two weeks ago I asked readers ‘What’s the future of Blogging?‘. The post generated a lot of good comments about what direction blogging will go in the coming years. Here are what I consider to be the 4 best comments and my reason for choosing them. In this debate I was looking more for comments which raised good points rather than looking at the comment as a whole. Each of these bloggers will be getting $50 in their PayPal account ...
Continue readingA few blogging news updates
Blogging News Here is a selection of various blogging news and articles from the last week. Enjoy Nintendo Contractor Fired for Blogging Jessica Zenner, a 33 year old contractor for Nintendo, was sacked last week for having a personal blog. Her blog was essentially just an online diary of her life as a mother, wife and employee of nintendo (visit her blog here). Nintendo’s stance was that ‘Nintendo doesn’t bar employees from having blogs, ...
Continue readingThe Next Google PageRank Update
Search Engine Optimisation It has been quite some time since Google updated its PageRank, which is calculated using various factors but primarily based on the quantity and quality of links to your site. It looks like a PageRank update could be coming very soon, and it is certainly something many bloggers and webmasters have been anticipating. At GetFoundNow.com, Michael Stankard theorizes that the recent changes to the Google Webmaster tools have been the reason for the ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.3 Released
WordPress I gave you all a sneak preview of WordPress 2.3 yesterday. This morning WordPress officially released version 2.3. Here is the official announcement from WordPress (see original post here) I’m thrilled to announce that Version 2.3 “Dexter” of WordPress is now ready for the world. This release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and much more. This release is named for the great tenor ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – September 25th 2007
Links do you offer a full-text feed? then advertise it! – A good tip from Muhammad Saleem, advertise the fact you offer a full rss feed to subscribers. I want the iPod Video Nano Blog Contest – Jason Blanton is offering an iPod nano to anyone who helps promote his blog. Top 23 Contest Blogs on the Web: The Ultimate List – Contest Blogger lists the top contest blogs on the web and puts themselves first Why people stop blogging – ...
Continue readingDMoz could be getting dropped by Google – About frickin time!
Internet News I cam across a post today by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Land regarding the open directory project (aka Dmoz). They realised that Dmoz isn’t listed when you search for dmoz on Google. Fingers crossed that is an indication Dmoz is finally going to go to the website graveyard in the sky. Dmoz has been currupt for as long as I can remember, I once waited more than 2 years for my site submission to be accepted. This sort of timescale was ...
Continue readingThree Main Components of A Great Blog
Writing DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT IS NEEDED TO PULL WEB VIEWERS TO YOUR BLOG SITE What is the best way to generate heightened text to really get every web reader to your site excited by reading your blog? This can be done by using the fundamentals of web writing 101 when you start to begin writing every article or blog in your every day life. It is a known fact that while newspaper and magazine readers tend to read every word in the various articles that they ...
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