Monthly Archives: January 2008
22 Jan 2008
Links Free Social Networking Sites – Gavin from Ryan Shamus provides a large list of social networking sites. Yet Another WordPress SEO-Bug That Slipped Through Your Defenses – Chris explains how to correct a bug in wordpress which could be hindering your search engine potential. How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress – A making money ebook from Caroline Middlebrook. and last but not least… Advertising Blogger ...
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21 Jan 2008
Search Engine Optimisation If You Don’t Know Who Your Best Target Audience is that Will Read Your Blog On a Daily Basis, You Have Already Lost the Online Battle for Success KNOWING YOUR READER BASE SHOULD BE YOUR #1 CONCERN Every marketing major that is fresh out of college knows that every business should treat it’s customers like gold, or it will never be able to grow into a larger more successful company. That is why they know much more than most SEO web ...
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21 Jan 2008
Blogging blah. There are times wherein this word just pops in my head and refuses to go away even if I did everything humanely possible to get rid of it. I consider this as my “downtime” where my blogging could be considered as babbling. Personally, I consider babbling as acceptable as long as you explain or even give justice to your mood. Hey, everyone’s entitled to a bad blogging day…. even blogaholic people like us. If you want ...
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21 Jan 2008
Promote your blog One of the main goals for bloggers is increasing traffic. We often talk about ways to generate traffic and increase readership of our blogs, but I thought today I would write about things you shouldn’t do if your goal is to increase traffic to your blog. Don’t ignore your readers: If your readers take the time to read your blog and leave comments, show them you value them by responding with meaningful conversation. Don’t ...
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20 Jan 2008
Blogging Easy options to make a choice right? Reading through all those blogs that’s sprouting up every day, I can clearly distinguish between one that’s written for search engines and one that’s for human readers. In fact, I instantly classify a new blog that I come across to either of these categories. A blog that’s written for search engines will have the following features - Fancy titles that’s more like keywords re ...
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20 Jan 2008
Blogging I’m heading towards my third anniversary as a blogger. It was slow going at first, but I learned some important lessons about blogging and about life. Anything worth doing is worth doing well. People who read blogs are a fickle bunch. If your blog sucks they won’t stick around. If you put forth the effort to provide a quality resource, they’ll respond. If you’re wrong, people will tell you you’re wrong. And ...
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19 Jan 2008
Design & Coding At Mac World WebClips were announced for the iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing users to add a bookmark to the home screen that launch Safari to the bookmarked page. By default the application grabs a screenshot of what’s visible in Safari when you create the Web Clip, and some people have resorted to zooming into a logo of the site to get better view of which WebClip is what. But you can also set your own custom WebClip icon to save users ...
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19 Jan 2008
Blogging Have you ever experienced this? I have experienced this few times and that’s the reason I’m bringing this topic today. I have made few good posts (at least GOOD in my point of view) in my blog and sometimes I receive almost ZERO comments to them. I really hate to see ‘0 Comments’ showing in my blog posts. But it happens to every blogger. You may have expected the post to do well and you would have expected it to receive more than 50 ...
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18 Jan 2008
CSS If you’ve ever included snippets of code on your blog, you know that presenting that text can be a unique challenge. HTML provides a tag for this purpose, the <code> tag. Unfortunately, just chucking your code in those tags isn’t the end-all solution. For one thing, you typically need to turn off your Rich Text editor and hand-write them in if you want to get those tags at all. For another, if you are including actual HTML code ...
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17 Jan 2008
Promote your blog You’ve built up a nice little archive of posts. Now all you need is some readers. It’s the question everyone’s asking: how do you promote your blog? First, let me direct you to the excellent post on this topic by Michael Martine. Michael knows you have to give a little to get a little. I’m going to address a specific aspect of that: giving publicity. If you run a themed blog, this will be very simple. In fact, you’re probably doing it ...
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Why Even Your BEST Posts Don’t Get Many Comments
Blogging Have you ever experienced this? I have experienced this few times and that’s the reason I’m bringing this topic today. I have made few good posts (at least GOOD in my point of view) in my blog and sometimes I receive almost ZERO comments to them. I really hate to see ‘0 Comments’ showing in my blog posts. But it happens to every blogger. You may have expected the post to do well and you would have expected it to receive more than 50 ...
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