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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …