Monthly Archives: February 2008
Why Your Blog Should Probably Have a Print Stylesheet
CSS If your blog has well-written and informative articles, like any good blog should, you should probably have a well-formatted print stylesheet declared. Just like your regular “screen” CSS controls how your webpage looks in a browser, the “print” stylesheet controls how your webpage prints on a printer. First things first, you need to declare the stylesheet: <link rel="stylesheet" href="print.css" type="text/css" ...
Continue readingTen Web Publishing DONTs
Blogging, Writing In my last article, we looked at Ten Web Publishing DOs, we learned to think about your target audience, to publicizing your site and to ask permission for content. Today we are going to look at the opposite side of the spectrum, and dive into the ten things you SHOULDNT do as a web publisher. So without further adu, lets get started. DON’T Limit Your Audience Be careful when designing your pages not to inadvertently limit your audience by ...
Continue readingBlogs that connect
Around The Blogosphere A sobering moment for all us bloggers in the ‘sphere. The author of the blog Brain Hell died on February 2. His blog chronicled the diagnosis and gradual progression of his illness, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and was an amazing, moving series of letters to the world. As he preferred to remain anonymous while he was alive, I will refrain from using his name here. The blog is still online. Seeing all the loving comments after each ...
Continue readingBlogging Tips Competition: 5 Prizes
Competitions Free Stuff !!!! No – Really – Free Stuff. And this is not some strange new usage of the word “free” that involves you paying money for something to get the “free” stuff. This is the dictionary definition of the word free – Costing nothing; gratuitous; without charge I am not even going to rant on about the amount of times I discover something that is “free,” requiring a payment of some kind. But this is genuinely free, gratis ...
Continue readingAdditional methods to make money from your blog : Paid Posts
Making Money I’m sure most of you are aware of the most popular ways to make money from your blog. Affiliate links and sales of banner and text links make up the majority of ad revenue for blogs however there are other methods which you can use to increase revenue from your blog and the more subscribers your blog gets the more opportunities you have to take advantage of these methods. I have been thinking of adding paid post options to the advertising ...
Continue readingWrite blog posts in advance
Blogging Do you write your blog posts in advance or do you write them as you need to post them? Either way is fine but I find the tendency to fall behind is far greater when you’re writing 1 post at a time. Certainly blogging should be fun but I find it more of a chore when I get behind in my posting schedule. Here are some things that will help you get in the habit of writing posts in advance. Build a system – Once you start writing posts in advance ...
Continue readingWordPress themes and plugins for the week
WordPress Themes PLUGINS Stumble Crumble Stumble Upon pluginThis plugin helps you to display your recent stumbles on the blog as a list. Good one for social media enthusiasts. Flickr Technorati pluginThis plugin integrates Flickr with Technorati Tags. It takes the first Technorati tag, and uses it to look for related images on Flickr, displays the three most recent related images on your WordPress blog post, and updates images automatically. Theme switcher ...
Continue readingHow to Get the Most Marketing Bang Out of Blog Commenting
Blogging I’ve been trying to be a good little online marketer lately. I’ve been using social bookmarking software, making “friends” on mass freelance writing (my niche) sites, diligently publishing a newsletter and commenting on other blogs. I get a little befuddled on how to effectively go about the last part though – commenting on other blogs. I mean, I want to comment because I have something to say, but how do I decide when it’s “worth ...
Continue readingUse your Blogging Experience: Get Hired as a Blogger
Blogging If you’re blogging for your business, whether the business is online or offline, you soon realize that blogging has many benefits. However, blogging takes time, and many businesses don’t have the staff to write a blog so they hire bloggers. If you enjoy blogging and want to make some extra money, you can offer your blogging services. Here’s how to do it – you can offer your services right on your blog. 1. Create a ...
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Blogging Today i read an interesting post from Yuwanda. She talked about how she decides whether or not she will comment on a blog, and for her, its whether or not the blog can deliver some traffic as a result of her comment. I have decided to take a slightly different angle on the same subject, and talk about the quality of the comment you leave, after you decided its worth leaving the comment. After you spend some time lurking around the blogosphere, ...
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