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 Snell writes a very good post showing you how he got a massive 34,000…
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 last point I…
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 looked backed since then. Here are some of the “highpoints” in the blogging evolution:
Wordpress and…
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 Technorati Top 100 you will find that even the most successful bloggers…
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 and wrote a post called ‘The Most Painful US$400 I Ever Spend On…
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 does what it says it does.
Here’s their introduction video :
BlogRush isn’t ready
After watching their introduction video I’m…
