Monthly Archives: September 2007
The Challenge of Constant Growth
Blogging Regardless of what type of website, blog, or online business you run there is always a challenge to continually grow. Growth is necessary for any business, online or off. For bloggers, making money is not the only measurement of growth. Any number of things, like number of visitors, subscriber counts, search engine rankings, number of links, and Alexa rankings, can all be used as measuring sticks to judge your success. When growth isn’t ...
Continue readingDaft Hands – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Around The Blogosphere I don’t post many non blogging related posts here but I love this video so much I had to share it with you all. Someone spent god knows how long learning a dance routine with their hands for the amazing Daft Punk Song ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’, it really is fantastic. North Americans should be familar with the song as Kanye West has just used it in his song ‘Stronger’. Daft Punk have been big in Europe for ...
Continue readingCreating and Using an XML Sitemap for WordPress
Search Engine Optimisation XML sitemaps have been standardized and are recognized by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. According to the official sitemap site, sitemaps.org, “Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.” Google, the originator of the xml sitemap protocol, says, “You can use a sitemap file to tell us about all the pages on your site, and optionally, to provide ...
Continue readingHow to manage your blog advertising
Making Money Tara from Graphic Design Blog today emailed me with the following question :- How do you manage your own blog advertising? What I mean by that is when you are selling ads personally (not through Text links) what are the ways you find best for keeping track of when payments are due etc. Whilst Blogging Tips has only recently started selling advertising, I have been selling advertisements on some of my other sites for 4 or 5 years. I don’t ...
Continue readingShowmanship in Vlogging
Video Blogging Back in March, an SEO blogger named Michael Gray urged bloggers to step away from the keyboard. His point was that too many of them didn’t have anything interesting or original to say, so they were better off not saying anything at all. Where Michael went wrong was that, instead of hammering this out on his keyboard, he said it in a vlog post. Now, Michael is a great writer who really knows SEO, but he has a presence that’s probably ...
Continue readingInterview with Kevin Muldoon at CSS Juice
Interviews Wallace from CSS Juice has just published an interview which I took part in for his blog. In total I answered 9 questions for the interview, most of which were related to this site. If you want to know a bit more about this site then I recommend checking it out. Interview with Kevin Muldoon * Another interview I took part in is being published on Blog Ignite next week
Continue readingGrammarians unite
Blogging, Writing if your not hvaing a problem with this sentence than shurely something is wrong. The internet is famously informal. With all these lols, emoticons and pwnings being thrown around, it can be hard to see the point of using full sentences, capital letters, correct spelling, or any of the other basic elements of good grammar. So why bother? One word: clarity. Your writing style is a window that shows people what you’re thinking. If your style is ...
Continue readingUsing Video to Engage Your Readers
Video Blogging Adding video to your blog is a great way to engage your readers. Or, should I say viewers? As Fred R. Barnard once said, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” How many words is a moving, talking picture worth?. Priceless!! There are many ways that you can incorporate videos into your articles. Here are two ways I particularly like: Video Tutorials: Video tutorials are great tools for educating your readers on how to do something. By ...
Continue reading“Whats a Blog?”
Blogging How often are you asked, “what’s a blog?” Most who ask me this, have never seen a blog in their life. For some reason, I get asked this a lot. My response varies person to person. Recently, someone asked me, “why should I start blogging?” Invariably this person was asking me to describe the potential advantages of having a blog. I went on, in my typical sales speech, about how blogging can be used as one of the most ...
Continue readingWhat’s the future of Blogging?
Competitions First of all, I want to apologise for the delay in posting this months competition. I usually try and get the competition up nearer the start of the month but I have been busy with other things so I put it to the side Last months debate was quite popular so I thought I would get another one going. Just like last time, there is $200 up for grabs. The top 4 commentators will receive $50 via paypal. Ashwini made a very valid point last month when ...
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