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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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
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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 …
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 …