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 www.successforyourblog.com and a link to the contest rules…

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 wordpress. It works in much the same way as the Ultimate Tag…

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 area in this topic.

I was advertising Blogging Tips via Text Link Ads on 45n5 for $15 a month. 2…

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 this way, you would be able to inform…

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 the long term, great content alone may not guarantee you a spot…