Monthly Archives: February 2008
Ten Web Publishing DOs
Design & Coding As a website designer and web publisher myself, i know the importance of ‘must-do’ things online. If you follow some basic rules on things you definitely should do, and be careful of the things you shouldn’t do, your sure to be successful at it. In the first part of 2 articles, here are ten things you should definitely do when publishing online. DO Think About Your Target Audience Who is your Web site targeting? A little ...
Continue reading150 ‘Themes Club’ Memberships up for grabs – First come first serve!
WordPress Small Potato, the talented blog designer of WPDesigner, is offering 150 free memberships to his new ‘Themes Club’ to readers of BloggingTips. This is a fantastic offer and I’m sure it’s one which will be snapped up quickly. What is the Themes Club all about? The market for premium wordpress themes is getting more and more competitive however the cost of these premium templates remain out of the budget for a lot of ...
Continue readingAre Your Comments Stressing You Out?
Blogging The bigger a blog gets, and the more people who comment, the more a blogger has to pay special attention to the comments. All I ask from my commentators is that they are nice to each other. Sometimes though, comments stress me out. I’m fortunate in that my Freelance Writing Job blogs gets lots of comments. It’s a true community where people share ideas and offer help to each other. I’m so proud of the community and worked hard ...
Continue readingA week in blogging Feb 16th – 23rd
Around The Blogosphere So, what’s happening in the blogsphere this week? Daniel from DailyBlogTips has a nice article (the usual face off) where he’s interviewed two popular bloggers Patrick Altoft and David Airey. They have some interesting questions answered, so do check out. Maki from Dosh Dosh has a motivational article (really) on the importance of empowering your audience. Josh Spaulding released his free easy SEO report, you might want to give it a ...
Continue readingRandomize
Design & Coding This is a little snippet of code I’ve been using since forever now. It is a simple way of putting quotes, or any other data you want, on your site and having it rotate randomly through the different items you specify. I’ve used this in a bunch of different ways and it has thus far not failed. Not sure where I found it though, as it’s been so long. The download (here) has three files, but you only really need two. The first you ...
Continue readingHow to Get Traffic Using the Content in Your Blog
Promote your blog Getting traffic to your blog or site is not always easy especially when it is new. If you have an old blog or if you have moved from blogger blog to WordPress, you can try this method. Even if you have pre-written content, you can use this technique to get traffic. It takes less time and is also effective. But if you choose to follow this technique, be sure you don’t copy and paste the same content which you have already written. Here’s how ...
Continue readingProtecting Your Images From Theft
CSS If you Google “stop image theft“, you will get some results of some really bad, non-effective ways of preventing image theft. Things like “disabling right-click” with JavaScript. Crippling usability is never good, especially when it will barely even slow down someone determined to steal your image. This is kind of like strip searching kindergardeners because one of them brought a knife to school once. There are two ...
Continue readingKnow your roots
Blogging “Blog” is an everyday term now (except in my Microsoft Word program for some reason), but most of us can remember a time when the idea of keeping a journal on the internet seemed strange and bizarre. (And another time when the idea of the internet itself seemed strange and bizarre, of course.) Have you ever wondered who the first bloggers were, and what prompted them to share their lives with the world? Let us unearth some of that ancient ...
Continue readingUsing Google Trends
Blogging I check Google Trends several times a day as a way to keep track of what people are searching for and bringing in some traffic. While this has proven quite useful for my celebrity blog, it’s come in handy for other niches as well. For instance, on the morning of Valentine’s Day I noticed the number search was for “free Valentine’s Day e-cards.” With this in mind, I posted “5 Places to Find Free ...
Continue readingHow to win and keep readers
Blogging For most bloggers the biggest challenge is to gain and keep readers. We are all working to gain the attention of as many pairs of eyes as we possibly can. It’s silly to think we can gain the interest of every person that should happen upon your blog. But for the ones that do come and are interested in what we blog about we surely want to win them over and gain their trust. With that said, lets talk about some of the things you could and ...
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