Monthly Archives: September 2007
Giving away an iPod Video Nano
Competitions Success For Your Blog is helping you get your holiday shopping started early by giving one lucky person an iPod Video Nano. To enter simply write a post about Success For Your Blog and include a couple links to blogs that you read. This is my way of helping spread the link love around the blogosphere. So here’s how you enter Post an article about the contest and write a little bit about Success for Your Blog. Include a link in the post to ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.3 – Tag Clouds have arrived
WordPress WordPress mentioned a few days ago that they will be releasing the stable version of 2.3 today. They have not announced the release as yet on their blog however I decided to give the beta release a try. One of the first things I noticed was that Technorati has been dropped from the incoming links tool in the admin panel in favour of Google’s Blog Search. Tag Clouds The biggest difference in 2.3 is the addition of the Tag Cloud feature to ...
Continue readingShould you remove ads through a third party without telling the advertiser?
Making Money I wrote a post 10 days ago called ‘How to manage your blog advertising‘. In the post I mentioned how every blogger should try and do their best to look after their current advertisers but look after their potential advertisers too. It’s something I believe strongly in, bloggers should look to develop a good relationship with all of their advertisers. Yesterday something happened which I guess you could say falls under a grey ...
Continue readingMarket Thy Blog
Promote your blog Readers do not magically stumble upon blogs. Even if you belong in a network which takes care the bulk of the marketing work, bloggers should still find time to market their own blogs. Here are some simple marketing strategies which you could use in order to market your own blog: Use it as an E-mail Signature Not much eh? Just set-up the e-mail singature option in your email address and add the name and the url of your blogs and you are done. In ...
Continue readingWhat Would a Pro Blogger Do?
Blogging Every entrepreneur can learn from those before them, and yes if you are blogging for financial gain you have, knowingly or not, become an entrepreneur. I have spent many hours watching and learning from some of the top blogs on the internet, hoping to find that little secret or trick they all have that has proved successful for them. Everywhere you look people tell you the secret to blogging is writing great content, although that is true for ...
Continue readingWhen do you share the link love?
Blogging Most of you know me through one of several blogs, most notably Freelance Writing Jobs and About Weblogs. Both of these blogs receive great traffic and others see them as a way to bring in traffic to their own blogs. As much as I’d love to link to everyone, I don’t. I believe in sharing the love, but where does one draw the line? Let me explain… “Please link to me” My first working hour of the morning is generally spent reading ...
Continue readingBoost Your Subscriber Count With Two Feedburner Tools
Blogging Many bloggers pay more heed to their daily subscriber count than they do their daily uniques. For them, subscriber numbers are a key indicator of success, yet these numbers are also a variable no blogger can directly control. Often the most we can do is put our feed icon above the fold and hope for the best. This is where Feedburner earns its stripes. The service provides two useful tools we can utilize to boost our subscriber numbers. In this ...
Continue readingWeb Safe Typefaces
Design & Coding There are really not a lot of options to chose from when selecting a typeface for your site. In fact there are 6 fonts that you could consider safe to use, fonts that are installed by default on the majority of computers since the late 90′s. Arial Arial is a good sans-serif typeface, and though it’s no Helvetica, Arial is appropriate for a variety of applications and is designed for screen display. While it might seem dull at times, ...
Continue readingWordPress Plugin which links to those who link to you
WordPress Plugins I came across a fantastic little plugin the other day called Trackbackers. Written by Michael Wales, this plugin will list the top domains which have linked to you. It’s very similar to the top commentators list except this plugin lists all the blogs which have been linking to your articles (generated via the trackback list). You can set the number of sites which are listed in your top list too. Not only is this a fantastic way of ...
Continue readingTargeting The Long Tail Via Answers
Search Engine Optimisation Any good SEO will tell you that keyword research is the first vital step in optimizing a site to rank well in the search engines. If you rank well for terms that no one searches for, you won’t receive any traffic from those rankings. On the other hand, if you can’t rank for any terms in your niche that people are searching for, you once again lose out on valuable search traffic. Proper keyword research ensures that you optimize for ...
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