Monthly Archives: December 2007
When the Blogging Gets Tough
Blogging Have you ever felt so exhausted from blogging that you just need to take a break from it? I have and let me tell you, blogging during this period is an extreme ordeal. So what do you usually do whenever you feel that the “blogging gets tough?” Well, here are some of the things which I do and these things help me re-focus and energize as a blogger: a. Read celebrity blogs – I consider this a “break” when blogging ...
Continue readingAre you a clever blogger?
Blogging Bloggers come in all size and shapes. Some are professional, some are pajama bloggers, some are super affiliates, some occasional bloggers and some instant bloggers. Many of these bloggers are labeled either by the income they make blogging or by how long they have been blogging and how popular they are. (Did you just whisper pauper blogger?) And there are clever bloggers. Someone reviewed me on SU the other day as a clever blogger. Like any ...
Continue reading5 Things I Learned From My Stats
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation Behind every great blogger is great stat analyzer. My tool of choice is Performancing Metrics, but I also like Google Analytics and Site Meter. By analyzing my stats I’m able to learn more about the people who visit my blog and further reach out to my audience. Here’s how my stats help me: Search Terms: What are the search terms people are using to get to your blog? Some of them are rather obvious, for instance, “Freelance Writing Jobs” ...
Continue readingWhat do you do for a living?
Personal I’ll be going home for Christmas Tuesday, back to a small town of 7,000 people on the edge of Ontario and Minnesota, a place where designers and bloggers are a very foreign concept that I’ll inevitably have to explain to anyone asking “what I’m up too now”. People don’t really get what a designer or a blogger is there, and explanation of either is usualy meet with confused looks and attempts at comparing you ...
Continue readingIncrease Page Views And Interaction With Polls
Blogging I always like quality traffic over quantity. If 1000 people visit your blog only once and 10 subscribe, it is not the best traffic. But what if you get 500 people to your blog and 35 subscribe and few others also return to your blog? Surely the latter is what you want. In order to turn at least 5% of the poor quality visitors to readers of your blog, you need to interact with them. One best way, which I like, is adding polls to your blog. It ...
Continue readingA week in blogging Dec 07 – 15
Around The Blogosphere It’s nearing the end of this year and a lot of cool things are cooking up for 2008. Let’s see what happened last week at the Blogosphere. There were many writeups focused on what happened in 2007, and the evaluations. One that I found interesting is this post from David Armano, where he does an evaluation on the happenings at Social Media in 2007 and predicts that 2008 is going to be an year of Mobile Media. I’ll have to agree ...
Continue readingColor and Width of your Content Area, a lifelong choice?
CSS Part of the fun of having a CSS based site with dynamic content (like most blogs), is your ability to change the design of your site with relative ease. On a site like Blogging Tips, there are hundreds and hundreds of different pages with unique URLS. Can you imagine having to hand code design changes onto each any every one of those when you wanted to update the look of the site? No thanks. But thanks to CSS and a Content Management System like ...
Continue readingWhen You Just Can’t Write
Blogging It’s coming to the end of the year. Family demands are going to exponentially increase. Work commitments are largely unchanged. Pressure mounts. Caffeine intake quadruples. Words … fail … Actually, as yet I haven’t had the words not come but I have admittedly had a few close calls. Hence this week at my own blog I have been writing about how to come up with blog post ideas. Here and now though I want to share with you ...
Continue readingDue to spam, you now need to register to be able to post a comment
Site News Like most blogs, BloggingTips gets it’s fair share of spam. It’s a real pain in the ass but up until now it’s not been a major hassle for me. At the start of this blog’s life Akismet was catching just about every spam comment which was left. A few months ago I was getting 2 or 3 spam comments left on posts. This didn’t really bother me, I simply marked those comments as spam. Unfortunately, the last few weeks the ...
Continue readingCelebrity blogs
Around The Blogosphere Though of course merely being famous doesn’t automatically qualify you to blog, there are some celebrities out there whose blogs are actually fantastic. Here are three celebrity blogs I regularly check when I need inspiration, or just a bit of a laugh: Neil Gaiman Gaiman writes books, films, and the popular Sandman comic. His blog is filled with well-written accounts of his day-to-day life, as well as things like red carpet walks seen from the ...
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