Monthly Archives: May 2008
Links Roundup – May 27th 2008
Links It’s time for our latest links roundup for May 27th, 20078. Enjoy, and please feel free to recommend your other favorite links and pages in the comments area. Smart and funny use of Google Adwords How to get a front page Digg? How To Plan A Month’s Worth Of Posts In 30 Minutes Flat The Pocket-sized Guide to Blogging 8 Different Types Of Headlines Which Sell Creating a Blog : Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 45+ Must See WordPress themes RSS ...
Continue readingSell advertising using BuySellAds Advertising Marketplace
Making Money I’ve came across a lot of blogs using the advertising marketplace BuySellAds. Although you can make more money by selling ads on your blog directly, I have been looking for a good marketplace to sell ads on BloggingTips. Not only will this save me time, it will expose the site to a wider advertising audience. BuySellAds do take a cut of 25% of publishers but if you sell more ads from using them then this isn’t something you need to ...
Continue readingCreate a Featured Posts List Using Label Feeds in Blogger
Blogger A little known fact about using Blogger is that each label (category) also emits it’s own feed. This means that readers could easily subscribe to receive posts from a particular label. It also means that blog publishers can use these label feeds to create a featured posts list in their sidebar which updates automatically each time a new post is attributed to this label. In this post, I’ll explain how easy it is to create a featured ...
Continue readingHighlight Your Comments
WordPress Coding & Design Once you start to receive comments on your blog you’re going to want to have your comments stand out above the crowd, after all, it is your site! You’ll notice here on Blogging Tips that if the author of the post leaves a comment on their post then it stands out with white text on a red background compared to all the other comments with black text on a white background. Whilst there are a couple of plugins out there that can do this ...
Continue readingPromote your Design
Design & Coding So you’ve put in some hard time redesigning your blog and it looks fancy as all hell. But that doesn’t matter much if you don’t get the props you deserve. A redesign is a great opportunity to get more eyeballs to your site, and one of the easiest ways of doing that is by getting recognized in design galleries. For wordpress powered blogs you might want to try We Love WordPress. In the last two weeks they have accounted for over ...
Continue reading3 Reasons Why You Should Join Mixx Today
Social Networking Mixx is a popular social media site which works like digg and sphinn. You vote for articles to make it hit the front page. The site is not as popular as digg and it has just started to become famous. You can see the alexa traffic for the site below. The traffic is growing every month. Though I haven’t made to the front page with in that site with any of my articles, I have made to the front page for a specific category. The traffic, though was ...
Continue readingFriendFeed popularity is growing
Social Media FaceBook’s latest venture FriendFeed seems to be growing in popularity very quickly. The site has been getting a lot of exposure on the web however I didn’t join until today (Via Darren Rowse’s invitation). With FaceBook pushing this service, I’m sure it is going to get even more popular. What is FriendFeed? FriendFeed is a lot like Twitter though it has built upon the premise of quick social networking and taken it to ...
Continue readingGo Viral With Scribd
Promote your blog You probably heard of the word viral marketing before. If not, then here is a short description on Wikipedia for you. Vial marketing is big business and many well known Internet marketers use the power of viral marketing to their own advantage. For small home business owners like myself who offer a downloadable product for free on their sites there is an alternative. Instead of using an opt-in box on a blog that barley receives enough traffic to ...
Continue readingDo You Optimize Your Site for Mobile Users?
Blogging Tuesday night I accompanied a friend for a few hours of shopping on the Magnificent Mile here in Chicago. The stores we visited were, shall we say, not exactly the type of stores I spend money in. This gave me time to use my Blackberry to surf the web reading SEO related content on some of the blogs that I watch. At some point while scanning through some blog SEO content, I realized several WordPress powered blogs looked much better on the ...
Continue reading2 Reasons You Must Keep Blogging at Your Old Blog When You Move to Another Domain
Blogging My blog has the moving shivers these days. I recently moved it from blogger to wordpress – and back again. It’s an ongoing saga that pains me because I have one more move to make. I’ve given up free blogging platforms and have hired a professional team to design a new blog that will be hosted on my own domain. I’ve learned quite a few lessons in the process, which I wrote about in the piece entitled, 7 Things You Must Know Before Moving ...
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