Monthly Archives: September 2007
Killer Startups for Blog Promotion
Promote your blog One aspect to success online is staying a step ahead of the trends, and a great way to do that is to see what’s just about to get hot. Killer Startups is a site that states its mission is to discover the next YouTube. They do that by allowing visitors to submit sites, which they review and visitors vote on the most promising startups. The cool thing about this site is simply the ability to scour the new startups (about 30 posted daily) for ...
Continue readingBlogRush update
Promote your blog I spoke the other day about how BlogRush was launched way too early. If you log into your control panel you will not see your stats but you will see this message from the owner John Reese. TO: All BlogRush Members FROM: John Reese, Founder of BlogRush Hi, I am sending you this urgent message to give you a special news “update” about several things happening with BlogRush. Firstly, I want to sincerely thank you for joining BlogRush ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – September 18th 2007
Links How to Manage Your Blog for the Long Term – Think like a Gardener – Michael Martine shows you how to manage your blog. You’re NOT a Z-Lister! – Jayne gives tips on how to move from the Z list to the A list. How to Protect Your Blogger Blog From Hackers? – A good post from Blogging Mix which shows you some simply steps to protect your Blogger blog from hackers. How to Set Up a Domino Effect of Traffic – Steven ...
Continue readingUse images to increase the size of your short posts
Blogging, WordPress Plugins Here’s a quick tip for your short blog posts : Use images to buff out your post and increase the size of it This is a technique which I use a lot, if my post is very short I’ll simply add an image or a screenprint to increase the height of the post. There are a few reasons why I do this : Images brighten up your posts I don’t like posts which are just one or two sentences long To make sure the site design is not messed up The ...
Continue readingThe Evolution of Blogging
Blogging I have been blogging since late 2004 and the changes in the blogosphere has been enormous and its very hard to keep track of these changes. Before, words were only the means of communicating that bloggers had alongside images that were supposed to help but free images were hard to obtain and the joy of having a digicam were only for the priviliged ones. Alas! The blogging evolution began which caused the development of blogging which has not ...
Continue readingSimple Ideas to Increase Your Feed Subscribers
Promote your blog Every blogger is on the lookout for different ways to increase their feed subscribers. You should be no exception. A common misconception is that just because you have more traffic you have more subscribers, this is not completely true. What is true is that more traffic gives you more people to promote your feeds to, but if you are not successfully promoting you will not reach potential subscribers as you should be. If you take a look at the ...
Continue readingAnother disgruntled John Chow ReviewMe customer
Around The Blogosphere It seems like controversy follows John Chow around like a bad smell. Andy Beard today posted about another blogger who paid for a review from John Chow and then complained about the cost. The blogger in question is Alvin Phang from Gather Success. Alvin had paid for a review of his site Atomic Blogging on John Chow (see JC’s review here). A day later he raved about the traffic he was getting from the review. 5 days later Alvin did a U-Turn ...
Continue readingBlogRush was rushed
Promote your blog If you’ve been reading any blogging type blog’s this morning then you will probably have already read about a new site called BlogRush. ProBlogger, John Chow and Yaro Starak amongst others have been discussing it. In basic terms, BlogRush is a traffic exchange system brought to you by John Reese which uses a news ticker type widget to display blog post headlines from your blog feed. I’ve added it to BloggingTips to see if it ...
Continue readingSimple Secret to Blogging Productivity
Blogging By the time you have found the mouse pointer, found where you want to click, moved the mouse pointer onto your target, and, finally, clicked, I could've executed several keyboard shortcuts. Time and productivity are precious to a professional blogger. Over the long haul, keyboard shortcuts will save you a tremendous amount of time.
Continue readingWeb Typography
Design & Coding “Web Design is 95% Typography” Oliver Reichenstein Blogs should take heed of Oliver Reichenstein’s words. Good typography in your design is good readability, usability, and balance. Sadly, though, typography is a much ignored aspect of design online and designs fall victim to measure being too long, narrow linespaceing, low contrast, and poor grid structure. But the problem I see most in blogs, especially blogs trying to ...
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