Monthly Archives: November 2007
Pull Quote Plugin for WordPress
WordPress Plugins Collis from FreelanceSwitch introduced me to this fantastic little plugin. I first noticed it when he let me know my new post had been made live and I saw these really cool pull quotes. After I got a little over-excited I investigated to find the plugin he had used and installed it on my own blog. How the plugin works, and the clever thing that makes this so special, is rather than just being a CSS trick it uses Javascript to style your text ...
Continue readingA Week in blogging Nov 22-29th
Around The Blogosphere Seems like the “Blog for sale” phenomenon has ended and everyone is getting back to serious blogging. The most interesting post in the week past was one from Aaron Wall at Compete.com (guest post). in this post Aaron explains why bloggers have to do a day job to even buy a cup of tea! A little exaggerated that is but it makes sense. He says many bloggers get tons of traffic but they are not “smart” enough to market their ...
Continue reading75 websites you can submit your blog to
Promote your blog Blog directories will never bring you a huge burst of traffic however it’s still worth submitting your blog to a few sites, particularly if you are promoting a new blog. This post lists 75 websites which bloggers can submit their blog to. Whilst researching links for this article I came across a lot of poor and low quality blog directories and decided that submitting your blog to many of these would be a waste of time therefore I have no ...
Continue readingSlow-paying clients
Making Money I’ve written before about what to do when you have a client who doesn’t pay you. The situation I’m in now is a little different: I have a client who does pay me, but it’s invariably late and I always have to send several emails before I get a response. (For the record, it’s not Kevin!) In some ways, constantly late payments are worse than a one-time default on a payment. Every month I get angry and depressed, feeling that my work is ...
Continue readingA typical day in blogging
Blogging Are you a very organized person? Do you think a blogger should be organized? Or should he be an impulsive one? I was wondering how a typical day in blogging would look like for you? Would it be the same as other bloggers or would it be all over the place? Let’s take a deeper look. This is how a typical day in blogging look like for me. START Morning 6.30 am – Email Check 7.00-7.30 am – Publishing article/Blogging 8.00 am ...
Continue readingSubmit your videos to increase backlinks and readership
Promote your blog In today’s post I want to talk to you about submitting your videos to as many sources as possible to increase your blogs exposure. When you create a video for your blog, there is no reason not to distribute the video through as many channels as possible. Rich media is all the rage these days and if your video goes viral you can go from a nobody to a somebody literally overnight. The concept is really simple. You create a video for your ...
Continue readingWinners of the Premium News Theme
Competitions Last week, we ran a competition where 2 lucky winners could win a copy of Adii’s new Premium News Theme for WordPress. Adii got back to me with the names of the winners today. The winners are : Ian for this comment “It’s gorgeous and feature-rich, yet I cannot afford the theme. This is contributing to my already low self-esteem.” Reason : Hope the theme improves Ian’s “supposed” low self-esteem Thomas from ...
Continue readingIs Google Blog Search Broken?
Blogging News Is Google Blog Search broken and full of spam? Google is top dog when it comes to indexing speed but their index is chock full of spam. The above quote is from Bruce Clay’s blog, in a post written by Lisa Barone. I thought I’d give it a quick test for a term I coined, Gateway Blogging. Google Blog Search results for gateway blogging. I just looooove being number one in the SERPS! Ask blog search results for gateway blogging. Not ...
Continue readingTurning RSS Readers into Community Members
Blogging The number of RSS subscribers any particular blog maintains is an extremely important factor in getting your blog noticed and persuading others to take you and your blog seriously. Of course the quality of content you produce should be the #1 factor, but the sad fact is, that little widget that most of us display often provides a better (or worse) impression than anything else. However, even a blog with thousands of RSS subscribers should ...
Continue readingJournalism Resources for Bloggers
Writing Blogging is a form of journalism. I have said that before, but I want to really focus on it in this article. To be sure, there are major differences between being a journalist and being a blogger – most notably the freedom that comes from being your own editor, publisher and critic. However, spending a couple of hours perusing a site designed to create better journalists can only help you become a better blogger. Because, really, becoming ...
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