As a blogger myself, I can’t help but have my own set of “blogging idols” which are my inspiration in terms of being a successful problogger myself. These blogging idols of mine are very far from each other’s topics but the way that they dealt with their blog makes them the success that they are today.
Here are some of my “blogging idols” and why I consider them as such:
a. Darren Rowse of Problogger
What started out as a hobby is now a full time career for Mr. Darren Rowse himself. By…
Most bloggers are interested in increasing the number of subscribers to their blogs. It makes sense: more subscribers = more loyal readers = more links = more page views = higher rankings, better advertising and more!
While bloggers understand the value of RSS, many blog readers do not. That’s why Daily Blog Tips decided it’s time to educate the masses with RSS Awareness Day on May 1st.
To help spread the word about RSS Awareness Day, Daily Blog Tips is hosting a contest with a variety of prizes to bloggers who write about…
In recent months, Blogger have added quite a few new features to the system: scheduled posts, Google Gadget integration and a dynamic blogroll are among the freshest and best upcoming features for this popular blogging platform.
So if you use Blogger to publish your blog, how can you keep updated with the latest news and discover new features as soon as they become available?
In this post, I’ll tell you about the sites I use and subscribe to in order to receive updates and news about Google blogger.
Official Blogger/Google resources
Blogger in Draft
Blogger…
TNX is a text advertising service which has been online since September 2007 (although it’s still in Beta). Although the site is still relatively new, it’s built up a large membership and has proved particularly popular with bloggers.
What seperates TNX from a lot of other ad companies is it’s point system, which is unimaginatively called TNX Points. Remember the old game shows where they used to tell you ‘Points Means Prizes’, well TNX Points means cash. Publishers earn points from displaying ads and advertisers buy points which they can then use…
Template tags are functions defined in the core WordPress files and are globally available for use in your templates. There are a lot of tags available for different aspects of your template files. To get a complete list of what’s available see the Template Tags on the WordPress Codex.
Some accept many parameters (information passed to the function enclosed in the brackets/parentheses), others do not accept any parameters. To use a template tag you need to ensure it’s within opening and closing PHP tags e.g.
<?php template_tag_name('parameter_name=value¶meter2=value'); ?>
If the tag is going into…
