Monthly Archives: October 2007
Blogging Firsts
Blogging Do you remember the first time that your first published your blog entry? How about the first time you learned how to incorporate images in your blogs? These instances are just some of the “Blogging firsts” which leaves you giddy whenever you remember it. I’m going to share some of my blogging firsts with you: My first blog posts – My blog posts was full of nonsense and it was at least 400 words or longer. I felt that I ...
Continue readingHave You Been Marketing Yourself to the Fullest?
Promote your blog Well, have you? Here’s a question for you, what do you expect, or hope, to gain from blogging? Every single blogger, has begun blogging for a reason. The reasons may differ, but I guarantee you there was a reason that led to the decision to move forward. Some of us started blogging for money, maybe even financial freedom, some of us started blogging because were lonely and wanted the opportunity to meet new people and blogging beats crying ...
Continue readingWhy I’m a Blogger for Hire
Making Money When I first began blogging for other people, I accepted several jobs at once, which as you can imagine kept me very busy. I had my hands in many pots, some of them rather uninteresting. Still, I wanted to learn as much about blogging as I could and being a blogger for hire allowed me to study traffic building techniques while still being paid. Since I was bringing in a steady income, it also allowed me to take some risks with my own blogs and ...
Continue readingStop with the Tables.
CSS I’ve been working on a project for a jeweller, bringing their online catalog into the 21st century with some help from oscommerance, unfortunately the application still suffers from a 20th century relic. Tables. Tables are for data, not layouts, it should be as simple as that. But I still come across far to many site put together with tables, and not just sites from 5 years ago but sites being constructed today using tables for layout and ...
Continue readingEffective Tips On How To Manage Time As A Part Time Blogger
Blogging Blogging is a one of the best ways to earn money online. Everyone who enters the blogosphere do not make money. There are bloggers who make $10,000 per month and even more. But they are few in number. If you are not earning more than $1000 per month, don’t even think of quitting your day job. To earn $1000, you need to work hard and if you don’t have time, you will not be able to earn that money. So you have to manage time and have separate ...
Continue readingGoogle finally updating PageRank
Search Engine Optimisation After 6 months Google are finally in the process of updating the visible stats of websites PageRank. This is the longest wait between updates since Google started. This is good news for those with new blogs who missed the last update (including this one) as you will probably get a PR today or in the next few days however many of you will be disappointed to see that your PR has dropped. BloggingTips has achieved a PR4 however several of my other ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.3.1 released
WordPress I spoke the other day about the release candidate of WordPress 2.3.1 being released. When I logged in today I noticed that WordPress have now released version 2.3.1 of the blogging platform. As I mentioned the other day, other than twenty odd bug fixes, the only major addition to this version is tagging support for Windows Live Writer. You can see the official announcement about this release here and can download this new version from the ...
Continue readingLet Your Own Frustrations Work For You
Search Engine Optimisation They say that there’s nothing new in this world, and that any idea you could possibly have has already been done. That’s not true, but even if it were, that doesn’t mean that every possible thing has been done enough. Search engine optimization often involves knowing what areas to capitalize on because the competition is low. Think about your own recent searches. Did you ever find yourself getting frustrated because you ...
Continue readingA week in the blogging world
Around The Blogosphere There has been a lot happening in the blogging world this week. I haven’t posted about them as yet so I thought I would do a summary for those who have missed these events. Enjoy Google dishes out PageRank penalties The biggest story of the week is undoubtedly the news about Google dropping the PageRank of some of the most popular blogs and websites on the web. For example, ProBlogger went from a 6 to a 4 as did CopyBlogger and Blog Herald ...
Continue readingWriting for Freelance Blogging Gigs
Writing When a site owner is looking for a blogger to write for them they have the following criteria in mind: Can they write original and interesting articles for the topic? Does their style suit the property and audience? Are they able to write all required types of content? Will I get more value back than what I pay out? The first three points all cover the craft of writing. If you can show ability in your writing samples then the job of getting the ...
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