Monthly Archives: May 2008
Tagging = Social Bookmarking Success
Promote your blog Tagging used to refer just to the tags that you placed in your web site’s HTML to indicate certain types of formatting or commands. Tagging today often refers to something entirely different. When you hear the terms “tagged” or “tagging” in conversation today, it could very well refer to a phenomenon called social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, share, classify, and search Internet bookmarks. There ...
Continue readingImprove Bounce Rate By Optimizing 404 Pages
Blogging Have you ever clicked on a link expecting to be taken to a blog post that contains information that you expect to be useful, only to find an ugly 404 error page, with a message that simply says “NOT FOUND”. So you leave the site and look elsewhere for the information you craved. This has happened to me more times than I care to remember, it is at the top of the list of things that annoy me on blogs. Blogs are always changing, post ...
Continue readingTime to try Tumblr?
Blogging I think a lot of bloggers are in the same boat. We’re trying to improve our stats, use more SEO terms, spice up our writing style – all the stuff that we here at Blogging Tips write about. But I know that some of you are feeling kind of baffled by all this. You got into blogging for one reason: to write down your random thoughts where your friends can read them. For you, I suggest a different kind of format: the Tumblr model. Tumblr is a ...
Continue readingToday is RSS Awareness Day
Blogging News Susan Gunelius from Marketing Blurb reminded you all a few weeks ago not to forget RSS Awareness Day on May 1st. Did you forget? What Is RSS Awareness Day? RSS awareness day is a campaign from Daily Blog Tips to try and spread the word to everyone about the benefits of using RSS. I think this is a good idea as even though all major news websites have RSS feeds, the general public has been incredibly slow at subscribing to them. Mainly because ...
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Comments, Balancing Risks and Benefits
Blogging As you set up your first blog, you’ll need to decide how you’ll want to manage the comments that come in. As most experienced bloggers have learned, an open “anything goes” policy has some significant drawbacks. One of the main reasons you’ll want to monitor and filter comments is to combat comment spam, which has become a significant problem for bloggers. Comment spammers use automated Web “robots” that ...
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