Monthly Archives: May 2008
Don’t get stressed about blog scrapers stealing your content
Blogging David Peralty emailed me the other day to inform me that this website is scraping my content. The website is scraping content from BloggingTips and a few others (including Daily Blog Tips). Blog scraping is a topic I have touched upon before at BloggingTips however it’s something which still plagues bloggers today and unfortunately, the more successful your blog becomes, the more likely it is going to be scraped. Before I talk about why ...
Continue readingThree Vital Tag Related Blog SEO Tips
Search Engine Optimisation If you’re constantly surfing the web looking for solid blog SEO content like me, you’ll notice a plethora of information and “top lists” on virtually every related source. Most of these lists are highly recommended, but in my opinion there are a few vital changes you can make that are not usually not listed. 1. H1 Tags for Titles I cannot express enough how well this has worked on several of the projects I am intimately ...
Continue readingWhy Online Information Sellers are Changing the Home Business Landscape
Making Money Online information sellers are changing the home business landscape, allowing many more to attain the dream of working from home than ever before. I’ve seen it first-hand, in the following ways. Instant Feedback: The beauty of online information products is the gratification you receive from instant feedback. If you want to know about a particular business opportunity, you can almost always find feedback on it on the web. For example, one of ...
Continue readingAdd video to your blog with Magnify
Blogging News Today sees the launch of Magnify, a new website which lets create your own video community which pulls videos from a range of sources including YouTube, MetaCafe and Revver. Users get their own subdomain on the site and receive 50% of the ad revenue from their community (for example, I quickly created bloggingtips.magnify.net). At the moment the service integrates with the Moveable Type and WordPress blog platforms. Here is a quote from todays ...
Continue readingBring your blog posts to life with PicApp
Reviews David Peralty, owner of the popular blog ‘Extra For Every Publisher‘, announced last week that he is the new Community Manager for PicApp. He dropped me an email the other day and asked if I could have a look at this new picture resource site. So what is PicApp? PicApp is a photo resource site which has thousands of very high quality images which are available for bloggers to add to their blog posts for free (or to use their term, ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – May 13th 2008
Links Related Post Plugin Can Boost Page Views Who Decides Which Content to Cover: Readers or Writers? We Should Have Known Better: Exchanging Credibility for a Few Bucks Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done 10 Newest Ways to Increase Blog Traffic Systems Work People Fail and So Did John Chow In His Review of The Reverse Funnel System Time for an SEO overhaul Money and blogging, the opportunity and the dilemma 13 Odd Ways to Use Twitter Top 5 Community ...
Continue readingComment Info Tip WordPress Plugin rocks
WordPress Plugins Search This have released a wordpress plugin called ‘Comment Info‘. The plugin provides statistics for your commentators. All you need to do is hover over the commentators name and the info box will appear. Here’s how Search This’s explaination of how it works : When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter. The tip will display 1 of 4 results: 1. ...
Continue readingEffective Internal Linking Practices
Search Engine Optimisation We should all know that outbound links to fresh, original, relevant content on other blogs or websites are vital when it comes to providing users with quality content. But often times we overlook the importance of good internal linking strategy within our own domains. I’ve put together what I believe to be a fairly solid list of tips to use when linking to your own content via a new post or page. Of course, this list is compiled of methods ...
Continue readingHow to Change your Blogger Title Tags
Blogger Those of us using Google’s Blogger platform have previously been unable to change our title tags to optimize them for better rankings in search engine results. Until recently, our blog name appeared in the title before the actual name of our posts, like this: Luckily, the Blogger team have created a new template tag which generates title tags differently, allowing you to feature only the post name as your page title, like this: This option ...
Continue readingWhat gave you your biggest traffic burst?
Promote your blog We all try various methods of promoting our blogs. Some work, some don’t and sometimes we get traffic from the strangest of places without even doing anything. I’d love to hear what has given you your biggest traffic burst. I’m not necessarily talking about the day you had your highest traffic level, I’m talking about the day where you saw traffic double or even treble your normal daily average. How did you get this ...
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