Monthly Archives: February 2008
Flugpo.com: Social Networking with Classified Ads
Promote your blog This weekend I received an invitation to a social networking site I haven’t heard much about. This one is called Flugpo.com and it’s promoted as MySpace meets Craigslist. It seems as though new social networking sites have to come up with unique ways to differentiate themselves to draw new users. Flugpo sounded like an interesting combination of functionalities, so I checked it out and decided to give it a try. I signed up ...
Continue reading40+ essential resources for Google Blogger
Blogger While Blogger may not be seen as the most powerful blog management system, it certainly has a loyal following. Beginners and advanced users alike appreciate the simplicity of Blogger, the free hosting and ease of customization. So for those of you who choose Blogger as your publishing platform, here is a selection of essential templates, tools and resources to help you build a better blog. Free Blogger templates There are two systems available ...
Continue readingA week in blogging Feb 10-17th
Around The Blogosphere MyblogLog has released it’s brand new widget, the Recent readers widget which is very web 2.0 with gloss and curves. These guys have been continuously evolving and this is the latest weapon from their armory. Google webmaster central has posted the 7 must read articles from Google. It’s worth bookmarking and a nice read. There is a nice link exchange program released this week (with a nice puppy ) - Spottt. It offer free ...
Continue readingiPhone Web-Development.
Design & Coding Now that you have your custom icon set up for iPhone users, here is another helpfull guide from the folks at apple to get you started on developing iPhone versions of your site. The guide has some examples on how to make content that are optimized for iPhone’s gesture-based, windowless environment. With the iPhone accounting for larger and larger amounts of mobile browsing, despite being 2% of the smart phone market, it seems like a worth ...
Continue readingAre You Dressing Your Blog The Right Way At Times Of Traffic Peak?
Blogging It is true that you have to dress your blog well at the time of traffic peak. You have to get the best out of the traffic you get from any source. I wrote a post for freelance folder on the art of getting freelance work using forums and I did expect good traffic from the blog. I mainly had two links in the author info box. One was to my main page and the other was to my hire me page. I tweaked these two pages before I posted the article in the ...
Continue readingContact Forms For Your Blog
Design & Coding Option #1: Wufoo Wufoo is by far my favorite choice for creating forms for websites, blogs included. They have a free plan which allows you to create three different forms with 10 fields each and receive 100 submits per month. For a lot of bloggers, this is probably fine. If you outgrow that, the pricing plans are very reasonable. With Wufoo, you design your forms right on their website and then they give you a little code snippet to place ...
Continue readingThe Secret to Successful Blog Promotion
Promote your blog You may have spent a lot of time and some money getting your blog designed and set up, but attracting readers isn’t a guaranteed outcome. Generating buzz about your blog doesn’t have to be painful or cost you money, but it does require some effort. In this article, you discover how to attract and increase traffic to your blog.
Continue readingLove your blog: a Valentine’s Day post
Promote your blog Of all the potential Valentines out there, only one is always here for you, always interested in your life, always seeking your attention: your blog. (Also, your dog. But they don’t pay me to write about dogs here.) This Valentine’s Day, forget all that nonsense about restaurant reservations and trashy lingerie and take a moment to focus on the true love of your life. Say it with me now: Love. Your. Blog. Dress it up pretty Take a moment to ...
Continue readingBuilding a Brand for your Blog
Promote your blog Everything you do as a blogger can be duplicated by others on just about every level. The one thing you can do to help protect your blogs identity and separate it from the others is to build your brand. Having a strong brand is what makes products in the world successful. Its the thing about a product that really connects to people on a singular level. When you build your blog it is a good idea to create a brand for it as soon as you can. This ...
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Blogging News We all know that commenting on other blogs is a great way to build traffic and network with other bloggers. But do you know how effective your commenting is? How would you know? In this post, I’m going to share some simple tips for a more effective commenting strategy. If you’re commenting in order to get your name out and build traffic, you need a way to know if your efforts are paying off in traffic. You need web analytics. There ...
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