Monthly Archives: February 2008
Find Your Blogging Voice
Blogging, Writing The human voice can express a wide range of sound: It can be loud or soft, silky or gravelly, suave or gruff. The variety of sound has significance – how you use a given sound can help you in your conversations with others – to persuade them, calm them, express concern, and so forth. Voice in writing is the personality and character of the language used. You find it in literature, of course – where the author or characters in a ...
Continue readingMaking money blogging – writing other people’s blogs
Blogging There is more than one way to skin a cat. Apologies to all cat lovers, this is just an expression and in no way am I advocating the skinning of cats. Unless they wake me up with their howling at four-o-clock in the morning. It occurred to me that most of what I see written about making money blogging tends to look at the “normal” ways of making money blogging. Andy rightly pointed out that there are four basic ways to make money on the ...
Continue readingAre you satisfied with your blog?
Blogging This is one question that bothers every one. Now that you have setup a great blog, a great domain and a great theme, where do you find readers? Are you on the track that you had seen yourself when you started your blog? Finding readers to your blog can be frustrating and sometime even de moralizing. There are friends of mine who have told me that they’ve been thinking of quitting the blogging scene simply because they haven’t ...
Continue readingLong Tail SEO Keyword Targeting Tips
Search Engine Optimisation The wonderful thing about blogs is that they are such naturals for long tail SEO keyword targeting. Many blogs are already niche in focus, so they are born to target those long tail keywords. When you then get down to the level of an actual post page on a niche blog, it can be almost effortless to go after the long tail. Here are some tips on long tail SEO keyword targeting. Long tail was a term coined in Wired Magazine in 2004, and it refers to ...
Continue readingBlogging For Big Bucks
Blogging, Making Money This article is for the most ambitious bloggers who believe that their posts are worth money. Well, why shouldn’t they be? Your blog is Internet content, and Internet content has a value. How much value you realize from your blog depends on several variables, the most important of which is traffic. If you’re making 50 cents a month to start, you might be motivated to reach one dollar, and move forward from there. In the effort, you’re ...
Continue readingBlogging Inspiration
Blogging Personally, I define blogging as a passion and although it could be considered as that, having an inspiration every now and then in blogging would do wonders for one’s blog post. Some of my inspiration could be from my happy moments or even my most irritating ones. Here are some examples of my blogging inspiration: a. Happy moments – These happy moments could be very simple ranging from a very satisfying meal or being recognized from ...
Continue readingBlogged.com Public Beta Goes Live
Blogging News Alison McNeil contacted me today to let me know about the public release of a new blog directory called Blogged.com. Alison sent me a press release (see here) however she was also kind enough to provide a less newsy summary of this new blog directory. Blogged.com Blog Directory – Their Summary * Please remember this summary was provided by Blogged.com and not BloggingTips.com Blogged.com is a blog discovery and exploration tool supported ...
Continue readingHow To Make Money With Google’s AdSense Program
Making Money A QUICK LOOK AT THE FORMATION OF GOOGLE Larry Page and Sergey Brin, whose mission statement was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, launched Google Inc. on September 7, 1998. It’s safe to say they were successful in doing just that. They have been the search engine market leader over Yahoo! since August 2004 when they raised $1.67 billion in their first initial public offering, which ...
Continue readingBe Careful What You Blog, It Could Cost You Your Job
Blogging News, Personal We’ve all heard the stories about bloggers who have written things about their companies in their personal blogs that have caused them to get fired. Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com is probably one of the most well-known examples of this, but have you considered that your company could fire you just because you blog regardless of whether or not you ever mention your company (by name or not) in your blog? That’s exactly what happened ...
Continue readingSearch Engine Optimization tips for Blogger Templates (Part 1)
Blogger These days, there is much discussion of how blog content can be optimized for search engines in order to receive better rankings. But have you considered how your blog template can be optimized too? There are many themes available for WordPress users which are intrinsically styled for SEO. Unfortunately for those who use Google Blogger, such resources are few and far between. Over a short series of three posts, I’ll share some of the ...
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