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 your work. These simple things could bring about a positive attitude in me hence my…

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 by a network that connects bloggers with readers (without having to first register). It’s different than existing blog directories such as…

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 gave Google a net worth of $23 billion.

From the very beginning, Page and Brin wanted to bring to the…

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 to Chez Pazienza who was fired from his job as a producer at CNN because he wrote a…

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 tricks I’ve discovered which you could use to optimize your Blogger templates for search engine spiders, and…