As most of you know, Blogging Tips has a discussion forum, an area of the site I added to make it easier for bloggers to ask questions about blogging and a place to make contacts and friends too. Before I added the forums I checked out the possiblity of integrating the forum with the blog however the options available for integration at the time were not the best. So as it stands bloggingtips has a seperate database for blog users and for forum users.
Of course, this setup has some disadvantages, the…
Whether you’re crouched in a garret in Paris with a quill pen and a dream, or clacking on your sleek silver laptop at 175WPM, being a professional writer is a romantic thing to do. Thinking of this, it occurred to me that professional blogging sometimes resembles dating. Here’s the one I thought of today:
Call and response
Here’s a scenario: you’re casually flirting with the barrista at your cafe of choice as they serve up your morning cup. To your surprise, said barrista takes the conversation one step further and asks you…
Effective blog design includes the design of a blog itself, its navigation elements, and its communication tools. Blogs have a lot of standard elements, articles, comments, categories, and archives; all of which need to be presented well within the blog template design.
Those elements put a lot of constraint on what is possible with a blog design. You should be focusing on making sure your blog is easy to navigate to find the content and easy for visitors to connect with the blogger.
- Blog creative look - Some people do not put a…
Ever read an article and feel that you have something to add or need to respond to the author? I know I have, and most of the time a quick comment will suffice. I usually tell the author I like the points they made or ask if they could write more on the subject. But what if you have a lot to say? Why not keep that conversation going? What I mean is post your response in an article of your own? The idea of sending a ping back is…
There’s a lot of debate about how an organization should use organic keyword marketing versus the way those same organizations should use PPC marketing. And there seem to be two (and possibly three) distinct camps about what should and shouldn’t happen with these different types of marketing.
The first position is that PPC programs can hurt organic keyword programs. According to subscribers to this position, PPC programs damage organic rankings because the act of paying for a listing automatically reduces the rank of your organic keyword efforts. Those who follow this…
When blogging became all the rage a few years ago, nobody gave much thought to traffic generation (except maybe the geeks who figured out long before most of us that there was money to be made from it).
Now that social media sites drive much of blog traffic, much of the content written is to feed the needs of these communities. I have to say, I write this post out of a bit of frustration because many of the social media sites don’t meet my needs. Why? Let me explain.
Do Freelance…
