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 and responding to email. A good chunk of that email is…

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 post, I want to describe how bloggers can make the most of…

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, a little care to the presentation and spacing of Arial can make it…

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 rewarding blogs which have linked to you, it’s also a great way of encouraging…

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 phrases that are being searched. However, you don’t want to…