Monthly Archives: March 2008
How to generate traffic to your website – Ebook
Blogging Stephane Grenier from FollowSteph.com, has released a new e-book aptly titled “How to generate traffic to your website”. He was kind enough to pass on a free copy of the ebook to me and Kevin for a review. The title of the ebook, though tempting was not very exciting to me honestly. This is one niche where there are a lot of ebooks already , so with a skeptical mind I decided to give it a try. To my surprise I found that Steph has ...
Continue readingPatterns
Design & Coding There is a big trend in using ornate background patterns in the last few years. Vintage patters are also making a comeback as well online as well as in home decorating if you happen to watch How Not to Decorate or Home Heist. So as you can imagine you can use patterns and texture in a variety of ways in your designs, as well as offline in business cards and other marketing collateral. So here are two sites to help you find a style to go with. ...
Continue reading3 Reasons To Start A Blog Post Series
Blogging Image Source: Hamed Saber Blogging is a great way to build a good fan base. To have a good fan base, your content should be good and extremely helpful to your blog readers. So what if you go out of content ideas? My suggestion to you is to think of a topic in your niche and start a blog post series. Think of what all you know about that topic and list them. You can give tips, ask questions, mention the advantage and disadvantages of following ...
Continue readingSwift Media Launched A Redesign
Around The Blogosphere I am pleased to announce today that with the help of Bloggingtips.com community, Swift Media launched the new-look up-to-the-minute website design which will enable visitors to find the usful information our blog is known for, The website, which can be found at www.swiftmediauk.co.uk/blog/ has been developed by myself, and took just over a week to complete in full. I took all of the recommendations into consideration from the bloggingtips.com ...
Continue readingCut Duplicate Content to Increase SEO Results
Search Engine Optimisation When you’re putting together a web site, the content for that site often presents one of the greatest challenges, especially if it’s a site that includes hundreds of pages. Many people opt to purchase bits of content, or even scrape content from other web sites to help populate their own. These shortcuts can cause real issues with search engines. Say your web site is about some form of marketing. It’s very easy to surf around the Web and ...
Continue readingSpice up your posts
Writing If you’re wondering why your blog’s readership seems to be lagging, it might be time to take it back to the kitchen. Even though your blog is solid and filling – you post every day with well-researched content – you might be lacking that extra spice that keeps readers asking for more. Pepper your sentences In this case, the pepper is vocabulary words. Just like with real pepper, you don’t want to go overboard – too many obscure words ...
Continue readingThat Blog isn’t going to start itself
Blogging I can’t tell you the number of people that I hear from that are talking about starting a blog but for one reason or another just haven’t. There is only one thing needed in order for that blog to go from the idea stage to an actual blog. Action. Taking action is the only way your going to get your blog off the ground and moving forward. But I don’t want to leave you hanging with just that. Taking action doesn’t mean that I ...
Continue readingGettin’ Back in the Game: Bringin’ Your Blog Back to Life after Goin’ MIA
Blogging, Promote your blog Maybe you’re gettin’ ready to take a little vaca somewhere. Maybe you’re swamped tryin’ to get that next great entrepreneurial venture off the ground. Maybe you’re just sick of posting on your blog day in and day out and wanna take a break. After spending just over half a year creatin’ one of the most explosive blogs ever, takin’ profits from $254.72 in June ‘07, my first month at it, to just over five figures in December ‘07, ...
Continue readingKnowing Your Readers
Blogging Successful blogging lies in attracting new readers and having those readers come back for more. The more you know about your readers, the better chance you stand of delivering for them. The people who actually visit your site and/or subscribe to your posts may be different from the audience you had in mind originally, so it’s a good idea to do what you can to get a better idea of precisely who is dropping by and why. At one of my clients ...
Continue reading5 Rules to Adhere to When Approaching Others to Write for Your Blog
Blogging Since I’ve started to blog here at BloggingTips, I’ve received a few invitations to write for other blogs. Let me say up front, I’m always thrilled and flattered when I’m approached. But, as a busy freelance writer, the commodity I trade is time. I simply can’t take on every gig. Otherwise, I’d never have time for my work. Following are five rules (guidelines, suggestions) to adhere to when approaching others to write for your blog. ...
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