When I first started Blogging Tips I got into a very good habit of writing 4 or 5 posts in advance and saving them as drafts for future use. This was very useful at times as when I was busy or had something planned for the day I simply set one of the draft posts to publish.
Unfortunately, over time I have slowly relaxed into a routine where I write and publish the posts on the same day or the day before. This does have one advantage though, it allows your…
This morning I received a copy of the much anticipated blogging book ‘ProBlogger : Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income‘. This 200+ page book is co authored by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett and is incredibly well priced at $16.49 US Dollars (although the list price on the cover of the book is $24.99).
After the book was announced last month I ordered a copy from Amazon UK and was pleased to see it arrive early this morning. I plan on reading the book cover to cover in the next…
One method of helping new readers read more content from your blog is to add a “recent posts” widget to the sidebar. Blogger users can do this easily by adding a “feed widget” using the default feed URL (eg: http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default). However, this will only return the 5 most recent posts at most; Blogger doesn’t (yet) support the ability to display a greater number of entries.
Many Blogger users would prefer to display more than 5 recent posts in their sidebar, and indeed there have been requests for an article explaining how…
You’ve just started your blog, and heard of some new phenomena called RSS. What’s it all about and how can you use it to benefit your blog?
An excellent definition of RSS from the ever so controversial Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss):
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a “feed” or “web feed” or “channel”) contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full…
