Monthly Archives: September 2007
VBulletin Blog Addon
Software & Programs Last month, VBulletin released their first ever official add on, the VBulletin Blog. Retailing at $50 (and $20 every year thereafter), the vbulletin blogging add on is a fantastic addition for forum owners and well worth the price. WordPress & Textpad bloggers might cringe looking at the screenprint below. I’m the first to admit that it isn’t the best looking blogging script available however it offers vbulletin forum owners ...
Continue readingAdvertise on BloggingTips.com for $100 a month
Site News I mentioned at the end of last month that I would be selling advertising here soon. More and more emails have been coming into my inbox asking about advertising rates here but I wanted to delay selling ads here until the new Google PageRank update had taken place because it plays such a big part in the pricing of ads, particularly text links. As most of you know, BloggingTips missed out in the last update because of a change of domain (we went ...
Continue readingSocial Bookmarking to Boost Your Incoming Links
Promote your blog Social bookmarking sites are tremendously popular, and they provide a nice method for new sites to get exposure to target readers, and to get incoming links to increase your search engine ranking. You really don’t want to rush out and submit a ton of your own links to these sites, however. Here are some tactics for doing some social networking without being a pest or, worse yet, getting blacklisted. Submit sparingly, and spread it around ...
Continue readingBe selfish and help someone
Promote your blog Until today, I had yet to write a series of blog posts or take part in one but when Blogging Tips author Steven Snell emailed me last week about taking part in a series of traffic related posts I was very interested. Steven;s idea was simply, he wanted 5 bloggers to write a post about something specific that has helped increased traffic to their blog. Steven got the ball rolling yesterday with a great post entitled ‘Driving Search Engine ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – September 11th 2007
Links Do You Really Only Work Two Hours Per Day? – Does Yaro Starak make $5,000 a month from blogging 2 hours a day? 32 Video and Vlogging Tools – A good list of vlogging tools and resouces from AdScoops. Analysing Your Site Stats with Google Analytics – Danny from Blogs for Money guides you through Google Analytics. What If Google Abandons Page Ranking – Costa from Blog Gigs writes a very good post about Google PageRank ...
Continue readingShylock Adsense Plugin
WordPress Plugins Shylock have recently released version 1.1 of their Shylock Adsense Plugin. If your a wordpress blogger who hates having to edit templates then this plugin could be for you. They say Shylock Adsense is a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. More then that, you can set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then X days (x is the number of days you decide). For example, ...
Continue readingWrite Dynamic Blog Content By Focusing on the Details
Writing The way to conjure up dynamic web content is by keeping your writing tone very informal, such as the way you talk to a good friend or a close neighbor. Always write in a vibrant tone that conjures up explicit images of whatever your subject matter is. Leave the passive and meek writing tones to your competitors who are not ever going to have the amount of website visitors that you will when you develop the skill of bringing dynamic web content ...
Continue readingOverlooked Things in Blogging
Blogging Due to the popularity of blogging, some bloggers are overlooking some important details that are still considered as important factors when blogging. Here are some of the things which I considered as often “overlooked” when blogging: Spell Check – How simple is it to just check the spelling of your blog post? You might not realize it but having several words which are constantly mispelled would reflect badly to you as a blogger ...
Continue readingHow to make your blog rank high on regional search engines?
Search Engine Optimisation Recently, Google had announced that a websites search engine ranking will depend on it’s server location attributes. In our understanding of web content, Google considers both the IP address and the top-level domain (e.g. .com, .co.uk). Because we attempt to serve geographically relevant content, we factor domains that have a regional significance. For example, “.co.uk ” domains are likely very relevant for user queries ...
Continue reading12 Surefire Steps to Make a Big Splash in the Blogging Toilet
Blogging Yeah, you read the title correctly. I have seen many bloggers sharing different ways to improve upon your blogs, build readership, earn money and overall succeed in the blogosphere. With all of this information at our fingertips, it still amazes me how many bloggers seem content on disrupting the natural flow of their blogs, throwing them in a downward spiral to rest in their final place at the bottom of the blog bone yard. If you are one that ...
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