Monthly Archives: January 2008
Why I’m Not Digging Digg
Blogging I’ve been reading a lot of diatribes against Digg lately. I’m not much of a fan myself, to be honest. I think too many bloggers write for Digg rather than their readers, but that’s not what this is about. This week it was further cemented in my mind that Digg isn’t necessary for traffic building. Let me explain. A few days ago, I posted 45 Things You Can Learn for Free Online at Simply Thrifty. I didn’t ask for ...
Continue readingHow to write remarkable articles from small ideas
Blogging Often, when I read the probloggers articles, I get this feeling – “Man, why didn’t I write about this article earlier, after all it’s something that I knew already ? “ But you can’t stop it there, You end up writing a comment – “Awesome article, never read anything like that earlier!” Well, that indeed is the power of pro bloggers. You write about the smallest of things but it turns out to be ...
Continue readingLose the fat.
Design & Coding The number one new years resolution is to lose weight. Weather it be through exercise or eating habits people are trying to slim down, but while focusing on their physical appearance the same desire to “lose the fat” escapes other parts of their lives. One such area is the fat in websites and blogs. Using space well eludes a lot of people when designing websites, often creating visual clutter. Even behind the curtain plugin clutter ...
Continue readingHow To Develop Relationship With Your Blog Readers
Blogging It is always important to increase relationship with your blog readers. I wrote a post few days back on How to increase interactivity in your blog. In that post, I wrote on how you can make your visitors to take any action in your blog. This post will be on how to build good relationship with your blog readers and what you can do to make the relationship better. Blogging is a good way to get friends and to tell the truth, I have got many ...
Continue readingImprove Your Blog Typography with Typogrify
WordPress Plugins Typogrify actually began life as a set of Django templates crafted by Christian Metts to improve web typography. It was the ported over to WordPress by Hamish Macpherson. As Jeff Croft puts it: Typogrify: almost certainly the best thing to happen to web typography since Georgia. The beauty of Typogrify is it’s simplicity. You will benefit from it just by plugging it in an turning it on, but there are a bunch of more advanced features if ...
Continue readingA week in bogging 29th Dec – 4th Jan
Around The Blogosphere Ah! It’s New Year and boy, I’m excited! A fresh breath of air, it promises new ventures, new ideas, new partnerships and a whole new experience. I’m sure just like 2007, 2008 is going to be a very eventful year for bloggers. So, wishing you all a very happy and exciting new year ahead, let’s see what happened last week here on the blogosphere. Karen, at Google’s official blog has posted last years summary of ...
Continue readingPunctuation: a small primer
Writing Punctuation is important, sure, but it’s not a deal-breaker. For the most part, your readers probably don’t care whether you’re comma-crazed, like me, or writing marathon run-on sentences. Few people are studying closely to determine whether you should be using parentheses rather than dashes. Still, there are a few instances where something as small and boring as a punctuation mark can make or break your post. The most exciting mark is, of ...
Continue readingThings I learned about Blogging in 2007
Blogging As my first post in 2008 on BloggingTips I thought I would share some of the things that I learned about blogging in 2007. So here are a few things reflecting back on 2007. You don’t have to be the best writer to blog – I’m speaking from experience here. Writing is something I enjoy doing, getting better at it is something I continue to do. If you have something to say then start blogging and your writing will improve over ...
Continue readingThe Five Best Pro Blogger Job Boards
Making Money Where would you look to find a professional blogging job? At a big job board site that covers everything? Or at a job board just for blogging? Turns out the answer is a little of both. And I do mean little. Why? Because after a pretty healthy search, I couldn’t find very many–only five. There were more that passed themselves off as blogger job boards or said they had blogging jobs, but for one reason or another, I felt that they ...
Continue readingFive Tips for Writing Blog Articles the Easy Way
Writing Blogs need content: short snippets, articles, and longer feature articles. Here are five tips to improve your article-writing skills; within a few days, you’ll be writing content like a pro. 1. Outline before you start writing – a few points will do Jot down a few points before you start writing. Many articles follow this simple format: an introduction, a few points (around four, in an article of 500 words), and a conclusion. Writing ...
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