Monthly Archives: February 2008
WordPress themes and plugins for the week
WordPress Themes PLUGINS MyFTP Plugin for WordPressUsing this plugin the admin can FTP in files to the server from within the administration panel. Related posts from the same categoriesThis plugin will find and display posts from the same category as the main post. Very good to increase page views and keep the user glued to the site. RSS FooterAllows you to add a footer text in your RSS feed. You can either customize a footer text for a single post or use ...
Continue readingDo You Dilute Your Own Blog When You Blog for Others?
Blogging This week, I was offered a steady writing gig for a major site. The pay is not that great, but the exposure could be vast. “What’s this have to do with diluting my blog,” you may be wondering. Well, as seems to be the custom, everyone wants original content. So, that’s less content I’m able to churn out for my own blog. So, this got me to wondering, “Am I diluting the stickiness, effectiveness, authoritativeness of my own blog by ...
Continue readingWin a copy of FruitfulTime Task Manager
Competitions FruitfulTime contacted me today with a great offer for all BloggingTips readers. They are offering 4 copies of their Task Manager software to 4 BloggingTips readers who post the best review of their organisation tool. They offer a 10 day free trial of Task Manager so you can try the software first hand so that you may review it About the Software FruitfulTime Task Manager is a list management tool which helps you organise your work and personal ...
Continue readingOne Blog or Many? When to Create Another Blog
Blogging There are times when one blog isn’t enough. You need another blog, or two. There are many reasons for creating another blog. For example, two reasons you may decide to create another blog is when one blog becomes large and unwieldy, or when you want to draw special attention to a topic, or a product. Is your blog too large? You may decide to create another blog when your original blog becomes too big. Once you’ve been blogging for a ...
Continue readingMoney making Niche Blogs
Blogging The consensus seems to be that if you want to make money from a blog, you need to find a niche, or “nitch,” as some of our American cousins so amusingly call it. What is a niche? The dictionary definition of a niche is: “A special area of demand for a product or service.” Now that’s a fairly broad definition and perhaps the wikipedia definition is more enlightening: “By definition, then, a business that focuses on a niche market is ...
Continue readingNiche Social Bookmarking
Promote your blog, Search Engine Optimisation Sure, it’s great to get a bunch of hits from Digg or StumbleUpon. There are a couple of catches, however. For one thing, those hits could be a temporary bump that goes away once you disappear from the front page or stop getting stumbled. Also, many theorize visitors from wildly popular social bookmarking sites just bounce right in and out of your site. That’s why it’s a good idea to target niche social bookmarking sites. There ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – February 19th 2008
Links 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes – Posted by Smashing Magazine in January, this article is an update of their previous wordpress template list. How to Make Your Blog Popular – A good post from ContentBlog. How To Achieve The #1 Spot In Google For Your Keyword – Blogger MC shows you how to get higher in the serps for your chosen keywords. Extending Your Reach from Blogger to Influencer: 12 Practical Tips – A great post ...
Continue readingHave you checked if your readers are still with you?
Blogging Blogging can easily make you blind. With all that respect, popularity and celebrity status you think you have, it’s easy to get carried away. You slowly migrate from interesting things to personal things, move away from the purpose of your blog while you still think that you are doing a great job. Quite possible isn’t it? There are blogs that started off with one topic, then later on more user participation, moved to another and ...
Continue readingCreate a Research Topic on Your Blog For a High Google Ranking
Search Engine Optimisation Google’s Search Engine Spiders Analyze Your Blog by Defining Your Blog Content as a “topic”. Use that to Your Advantage by Defining Your Topic in Clear, Concise Web Content WHAT IS A RESEARCH TOPIC ANYWAY? In the world of Google, a research topic is any article or blog in your main web site’s pages that is defined by Google as being the main subject matter or theme of your web page. For example, if your blog site is all ...
Continue readingHelp! My Blog is Sinking!
Blogging We (even me) envision our blogs to be one of the top blogs in whatever topic we might specialize in or even just to have a healthy blogging career even though we might not be on top. Of course, making this vision a reality is harder than it seems because you have to find time and effort to make this a reality. One of the things which could actually help in your goal is making sure that you know the signs when your blog is sinking or even ...
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