Monthly Archives: October 2007
Creating Content Hubs
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation Content hubs are a great way to direct your visitors to key content, and it’s a nice way to maximize your search-engine optimization efforts. It’s also a great way to drive traffic to older content that is evergreen, but doesn’t show high up on your blog because it’s older. Essentially, a content hub is one page that features links to various posts and articles that fall under one theme. Another bonus is that developing a ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – October 16th 2007
Links How do I get in contact with you? – A reminder to all of you to make contacting you easy! How much should you pay for a freelance blogger – A great post by Invesp on paying bloggers. Group Writing Project – Marco is giving away some prizes to those who come up with the best idea for a WordPress plugin. UniqueBlogDesigns.com Review: The Elephant in the Room – Small Potato isn’t a fan of UBD’s work. An ...
Continue readingBrand Your Blog and Increase Your Blog Site’s Traffic Tenfold
Making Money Many people are spending significant amounts of money to launch their websites on the Internet these days. But how many of these people are taking the right approach when it comes to building a memorable, positive brand image that online consumers will be attracted to over the long haul? The first step when it comes to blog site branding is knowing who exactly will be viewing your blog on a daily basis. You always have to include this knowledge ...
Continue readingWhat Made You Blog?
Blogging If ever I feel so caught up in all the muddle of blogging life, I make myself go back in the beginning. A place where I consider the most important part of my blogging life. My fellow writer here in Blogging Tips, Deborah Ng (which I idolize ) also asked a similar question a week ago: Why do you blog? I decided to alter it a tiny bit for my blog post for this day. What made me blog? Well, there are several reasons why I wanted to blog and some ...
Continue readingBlog Action Day – How can bloggers help the environment?
Around The Blogosphere I posted in August about the Blog Action Day campaign where thousands of blogs agreed to post today about the environment. I am the first to admit that I am not the most concious person in the world when it comes to the environment. I never litter, I try not to buy things that I don’t need and I do my best to switch off my TV and laptop when I’m not using them however I know I can do more. For example, my brother and his fiancee take ...
Continue readingSize Does Matter – When it Comes to Ad Space
Making Money My blog recently underwent a makeover, which was designed to enhance the amount of advertisement space on the pages, much like several of the “A” list bloggers have done lately. I was interested in finding out if maximizing ad space would actually increase revenue, if you don’t have monthly advertisers. If you do have paid advertisers it is pretty much a given. The answer is yes, on Goolge Adsense alone I have more than tripled ...
Continue readingA tale of two blogging contests
Blogging, Competitions, Promote your blog I had a couple of interesting experiences with contests recently. One, was a success while the other was mildly disappointing. Why have a contest? Contests are a great way to create a buzz and send traffic to your blog. They’re great linkbait too. I dabbled a bit with contests a year or so ago, but it’s only recently that I achieved some success. While all experiences are different, it’s my experience that blogs without a lot ...
Continue readingWhitespace is nothing.
Design & Coding White space, despite it’s name, has nothing to do with colour. Whitespace is elegant, whitespace is excess, whitespace is nothing. Whitespace is the space between graphics, margins, space between columns, space between lines of type or figures and objects. But whitespace is not just ‘blank’ space; this balance of negative and positive space is key to design. Content needs room to breath, otherwise it appears crowded, feels ...
Continue readingUse Interactivity To Attract Links
Search Engine Optimisation Got links? Obviously, a large part of SEO involves getting backlinks. We all want and need sites to link to our blogs. Ideally, those backlinks are natural and freely given, and the best way to obtain those types of backlinks is with attractive, highly linkable content. Of course there are lots of ways to create attractive content, but one of the best is with interactive content. Interactive content encourages the reader to do something beyond ...
Continue readingDoes your blog run on steroids?
Blogging I often get confused while writing posts as whether to write for humans or engines? Often..very often, I end up writing for humans but I think that is not the best way to go about it. What does writing for humans mean? What I mean by “writing for humans” is writing in an appealing way, provoking readers, making them think and aligning parallel in the thinking process with them. If you read my blog, many of the posts there are about ...
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