Monthly Archives: November 2007
05 Nov 2007
Writing When You Write Your Blog for the Way People Search Out Info on Google, Your Web Site Content Should Reflect Those Keywords YOUR PARAGRAPHS, SUMMARIES AND SENTENCES HAVE TO BE EYE-CATCHING A really great summary that should be placed in your blog content would be defined as the main summation of who your subject is, what exactly took place during the experience you are describing along with when and how the incident occurred. You should never use ...
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05 Nov 2007
WordPress, WordPress Themes There are 1000s of WordPress themes that are freely available to you. Many of these themes are widely used by blogs. The question of which theme you should use is mostly based on how good the theme looks, there are some other factors too which you should consider while choosing a theme.
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05 Nov 2007
Blogging Hi, I’m Elaine and I’m a blogaholic Now that I have introduced myself and admitted that I am a “blogaholic”, I am going to share with you some signs which could determine if you are suffering from the same addiction. The Blogaholic Syndrome: -You don’t talk to friends, you keep them updated by your blogs. -You have a list in your notebook entitled “Things to Blog”. -This list also includes blogging ...
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05 Nov 2007
Blogging Hey tell me honestly, are you scared of Google? You’ve stopped selling and buying links since the last page rank update. You no longer comment on forums selling text links. You even took off your “buy links here” badge off our blog. Hey, you’ve even created a pseudo username just for selling text links. Ahha! Wondering how I found you out? Someone else is doing it – So I just guessed. Well, after the last page ...
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04 Nov 2007
Making Money How many of you have ventured into the world of affiliate marketing? Its really pretty easy, and if you play your cards right you might even make some money. I am a perfect example, yesterday I decided to setup a quick affiliate site and see what it could do. I already have the server space and I also had some quickie templates stored on my computer, so I figured what have I got to lose. I spent maybe an hour configuring and setting everything ...
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04 Nov 2007
Around The Blogosphere I posted in my personal blog this morning about the number of subscribers being significantly lower today at Blogging Tips. The number of subscribers at Blogging Tips was 1079 yesterday and today it’s sitting at 538. My initial thoughts were that either my server was down yesterday or that Feedburner stats are incorrect. Since I know my server was not down yesterday I assumed that it was a glitch and it would be resolved in the next few ...
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04 Nov 2007
Blogging, Writing A couple of days ago, Chris Garrett asked if we should edit or delete old posts. It reminded me I needed to do a little blog maintenance and review old posts, check links and make sure everything is still relevant. Will I edit or delete old posts? Well, it depends. Since one of my blogs, Freelance Writing Jobs, lists leads to gigs, I deleted those that were months or years old when I switched from Blogger to WordPress several months ago. It only ...
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03 Nov 2007
Design & Coding So you need a designer, but don’t know where to start? Well here we go. Step one. Figure out what you need and what you want. Knowing is half the battle as they say. Once you know what you want and need you can better assess potential designers while helping you get a better idea of where the project should head yourself. But keep in mind the difference between need and want. Being able to tell the designer what you need will help him or ...
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03 Nov 2007
Blogging One day or other, almost every blogger have nothing to write on a particular topic on that day. What if you face this when you must write something? If you are a freelance writer, you have to keep up the deadlines and what if you don’t know anything to write? Here are 6 places where you can look for content ideas both for your blog and even for the blog where you freelance: 1. Forums Forums are the best place where you can find many topics ...
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03 Nov 2007
Search Engine Optimisation Ask any SEO if they want a nofollowed link to their site and what do you think their answer will be? Do you think they’ll refuse the link? I wouldn’t. Sure, a link that doesn’t have nofollow wrapped around it passes link juice, which is what every good SEO wants for their backlinks. A nofollow’d link is virtually invisible to the search engines (well, in terms of passing link juice, anyway). So what good is it? Strictly ...
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