Monthly Archives: December 2007
Test drive your wordpress theme
WordPress Plugins Vladimir Prelovac posted a link to his new plugin this week in the Blogging Tips Forums. I have been pretty busy this week but got a chance to try out his new plugin Theme Test Drive today. So what does the plugin do? Here is how Vladimir explains it : Ever wanted to live test another theme you are designing or you just wanted to see how a different theme looks with your site content? Theme Test Drive allows you to safely test drive any theme on ...
Continue readingFace blogs versus house blogs
Blogging Blogging is still a new art, and that means there are some exciting decisions you can make for yourself. One of the biggest is deciding who you’re writing for. I’m talking about something more fundamental than identifying a demographic: I’m talking about deciding whether you’re writing for yourself or your readers. If you’re writing for your readers, then your blog is like your face. You use it to communicate with the outside world, ...
Continue readingA better sidebar for your Blog
Design & Coding If your like a lot of Bloggers out there, myself included, you have a lot of junk sitting on your sidebar that should be gotten rid of. If not gotten rid of at least re-arranged and cleaned up a bit. The sidebar of your Blog is arguably the most valuable part of your Blog. The problem is that you have a limited amount of space and an unlimited pool of blog stuff to put on your sidebar. Think about some of the stuff that can go in your sidebar. ...
Continue readingProject Management for Bloggers
Design & Coding Photo credit: ti lapin tom under CC license Bloggers need to accomplish projects from time to time. The problem is most of us just dive in with little thought to the process and an unclear understanding of what we’ll be doing. A project is a series of tasks that has a start date, an end date, and which produces a unique output. I’ve taught project management for several years, now. Although much of project management is overkill for ...
Continue readingThree Great Reasons to Read Blogs in Other Niches
Writing As a blogger, you are part of a community. If you want to be successful, you must get involved. While it is very important to become involved and read blogs within your blog’s niche, it is also a good idea to spend some of your time reading blogs in other niches. It might seem like you just don’t have enough time to add anything else to your to-do list. But this is seriously an investment worth making. Here are three great reasons to ...
Continue readingIncreasing PageRank through Smart Internal Linking
Search Engine Optimisation With so many people obsessing over PageRank (PR,) it’s often a bit funny to see many of the same people letting the PR of their own pages leak like it’s nothing. What is Pagerank (PR?) Before I provide some tips on improving the internal linking of your own site/blog in order to not only increase the “indexibility” (I know, that’s not a word, I like it though) of your own site/blog, but also to increase the PR of your “money ...
Continue readingMarketing your Blog: Do It Every Day
Promote your blog You’ve got a blog, and you’re creating content. However, unless you take an active role in promoting your blog, you won’t get the traffic you deserve. The no-promotion equals no-traffic conundrum especially applies to blogs in highly competitive niches, such as the Internet marketing niche. However, while it may be possible to rely solely on your RSS feeds for traffic in less competitive niches, the more you promote, the more ...
Continue readingAvoid Competing Against Yourself for SEO
Search Engine Optimisation If you’re like me, and a total blogaholic, then you may write for more than one blog. You also may be known as an expert in a particular area, which means you could run multiple blogs or guest blog on subjects that are similar or have crossover topics. One day, you may find you sit down to write a blog and realize you are just about to target keywords you’ve already targeted elsewhere. It isn’t really all that far-fetched. If ...
Continue readingWordPress plugins and themes for the week
WordPress Plugins PLUGINS Page NavigationLester Chan has a plugin that will help you put a neat page navigation bar in your pages. It shows the next and previous pages in numbers and it also has the scroll next /prev keys. Very good if you have large number of pages. Capitalize your post titlesHere’s a new wordpress plugin that capitalizes your post titles automatically. Good one for those who’d like to highlight their post titles for surfers. Related ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – December 4th 2007
Links The Credibility of Blogging – A good post from Kyle Eslick. Monetizing Your Blog: A Thorough Analysis On How Your Blog Can Provide Income – A very detailed post which explains how you can make money with your blog. Optimizing Blog Growth: Curing the Fears of Being an Amateur Blogger – A nice guest post from Aaron Wall. and last but not least… 7 Warning Signs That You’re Drunk on Your Own Words – Have you ever ...
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