Monthly Archives: December 2007
Three Types Of Advertising Users Don’t Like To See On Your Blogs
Blogging Making money out of blogging is a hot topic. Eventually you will also land up on topics on how to make money online and the different advertising options you can use to make money online. I am not a blogger who talks about making money online, I am someone who talks about making your technology life better. So why am I talking about making money online? Well I am trying to confuse you like many of the blogs that confuse me with advertisements I ...
Continue readingIn 2008, Do all that you missed in 2007
Blogging Hey, what’s your new year resolution? Nothing yet? Guess what? I have a few suggestions. Think of all the things that you wanted to do on your blog last year. List them down. Here’s what I found interesting. - Make it big on StumbleUpon, Digg, etc - Make $20,000 on AdSense - Get a custom made premium template - Create a reader base of 10,000 - Get 1000 incoming links - Get a PageRank of 6 or above - Get an Alexa rank of 10,000 or ...
Continue readingDugg, Stumbled,Reddited ……What’s Next?
Blogging “Hey I just wrote a cool post. Can u stumble, digg and reddit for me? “Sure. No Problem! Dugg,Stumbled,Reddited …..What’s Next? The conversation above might be new for some and for some it’s a tried and proven method to get some social media juice. With the rise of social media sites, we as bloggers have become more susceptible to this kind of attention. Digg’s front page exposure and StumbleUpon’s 40 thumbs up along with couple ...
Continue readingWindows Live Writer: What Took Me So Long?
Blogging I’m always the last person on the blogging block to install plugins or software. I don’t immediately join social networking and media sites and know nothing about modifying my template. It’s not laziness, mind you. I’m just rather confused when it comes to technical matters. In order to make any sort of changes I have to consult various online glossaries and tutorials and call in favors from a few teenaged nephews. In ...
Continue readingSeasonal CSS
CSS With the changing seasons and the multitude of holidays some also change their sites design to fit. From winter and summer themes, too night and day, to Christmas and Valentines. But changing a sites look can be a chore, especially if you’re doing it frequently. But thats where CSS finds a perfect application, changing the entire look of your site with one file is certainly alot easier then the alternative. And now there are ways to have ...
Continue readingHow To Create Interactivity In Your Blog
Blogging Every blogger wants their blog to be interactive. The more a blog is interactive, the more success to the blogger and hence more earnings to the blogger. Also it leads to a big fan base to the blogger. Whenever I write about interactivity, few of the probloggers who come to my mind are Liz Strauss, Chris Garrett and a couple more. They have their own community. It is not tough to create interactivity in your blog. It just takes a few actions ...
Continue readingFile Paths in Your WordPress CSS and Theme Files
CSS The directory of your WordPress theme probably looks a lot like this: This is where all the files for your theme live, and this is where you will come to make edits. Notice the images folder in there. If your theme makes use of any images for it’s design (it probably does), they will be in this folder. What can be a little confusing is just how to reference the images in this folder, in terms of their file paths. If you are editing the CSS ...
Continue readingA week in blogging Dec 15-21
Around The Blogosphere The folks at Google Webmasters announced the new video sitemaps feature for webmasters last week, now you can help Google find all those videos stored at your website. Last week, the Live Search team made the Tafiti source code available. Tafiti is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The AdSense team added a hide button in the “Manage Ads” page of the ...
Continue readingBlogging for Charity
Blogging This time of year often prompts people to look inward. We make resolutions and take stock of our lives. For bloggers, many of whom are already writing regular posts about their lives and thoughts, this time of year can be overwhelming. At some point you just get sick of thinking about yourself. I mean, in theory. If you’ve arrived at that point, I suggest taking an alternate route. Rather than continuing to blog about your hopes for the new ...
Continue readingAre your posts to broad? Consider writing a series of articles.
Writing If you write posts that are over a 1000 words chances are you could break the post down into a few different posts. And even better you could break it down into a “series” of posts all related to a certain idea. There are a few reasons you would want to break large posts into several smaller posts in a series. Attention Span – We all know that the attention span of a web surfer is non-existent so you have to grab the attention, get your ...
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