Monthly Archives: July 2008
Links Roundup – July 24th 2008
Links Here’s a quick list of some great posts from the last week. Enjoy 5 Ways To Increase Comments On Your Blog 7 Unmissable Tips For Writing Great Content For The Web I Refuse To Participate In The Vicious Nastiness Going On In Our Industry How to Work With Color Schemes Moneybites Podcast 4: Talking With Tyler Cruz Clean Clutter-Free Workspace for Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency The Ultimate WordPress Commenting System How to Make a ...
Continue readingTraffic Generating Tips I’ve Learned from Working with SEO Firms
Promote your blog If you’re a regular reader of my posts on this blog, then you’ve probably read at one time or another that I’m an SEO writer. Most of my clients are SEO firms, aka Internet Marketing Firms and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Firms. I’ve learned some great traffic-generating tips from working with them. Following are three: 1. Double-duty Blog Posts: Blog posts can do double-duty. What do I mean? One client of mine contracts with me to do ...
Continue readingShould you explain to your readers why you have not been blogging?
Blogging I’ve read a lot of posts recently about what you should do to revive a dead blog and what you should do if you have not blogged in a while. The key question always seems to be ‘Should you explain to your readers why you have not been blogging?‘. Also, do you think you should apologise to readers? Snoskred from Aussie Bloggers wrote a post today in which he mentioned that I have seen it said around the web that a blogger should ...
Continue readingGoogle to buy Digg for $200 million
Internet News The net seems very busy this morning with reports that Google are about to acquire the hugely popular Digg for an estimated $200 million. It’s not a done deal as yet but it does look like it’s going to go through. It will be interesting to see what Google does with Digg and whether they will integrate the service with Google more. Remember, they didn’t really mess with YouTube after purchasing it so it might not be integrated ...
Continue readingThe Benefits of Using a Pseudonym
Writing The name which you attach to your blog posts carries more weight than a lot of people realize. As your blog grows, so does your profile, which means that future blogs you own and posts you write will probably get more exposure because you are known within your niche. Of course, many bloggers do not want to use their full name on their blogs. I personally use my real name on all my posts however many guest posters at BloggingTips have chosen to ...
Continue readingHow to combat WordPress TrackBack Spam
WordPress At the end of last year BloggingTips was getting a lot of comment spam. Comment spam has thankfully reduced since then however in the last few weeks I have seen a big increase in the amount of trackback spam here (more than 30+ a day!). Trackback spam is a little more difficult to control than regular comment spam. Most are created automatically via bots and the links they use to promote their sex or prescription drugs website usually has ...
Continue readingMiscellaneous News & Updates – July 21st 2008
Blogging Last night I returned from a much needed holiday. As I mentioned 10 days ago, I decided not to post while on holiday because I couldn’t get wi-fi in my room and the internet cafe was not the ideal environment to write articles. In the weeks I have been away there has been a lot of announcements so I thought I would give you all a biref update on what has been happening since I was away. Before I do so, I would like to thank the bloggers ...
Continue readingWordPress Gallery and EXIF
WordPress Coding & Design The release of WordPress 2.5 included a built in gallery feature. Nothing major by any means, but it gave you the option of using a simple gallery to display your photos. It also included the ability to pull the EXIF data from your photos. However, whilst the features are there, there’s not much information or tutorials on using them. Hopefully this post will give you a bit more information on how to get the most from this new feature. ...
Continue readingLink Block Hover Effect
CSS It’s a fairly common trick used nowadays, a block of text with a title and some other information that acts as a link while the only thing that looks like a link in the block is the title. It doesn’t require any fancy tricks even, but it’s probably not the most semantic bit of code. Check out the demo here. The key is simply wrapping the entire block in the link, and then styling the rest of the content to not look like a link. ...
Continue readingFinal Words On StumbleUpon
Social Networking Image Source: szlea I have been writing for the almost a month on every Saturday about stumbleupon, its positives, negatives, what you can get from it and much more. This post is a round up on stumbleupon. You will read what stumbleupon has for you if you are a blogger, or an advertiser and what you can do to get a good experience. Few Tips For Getting A Post Popular In StumbleUpon You have been writing good posts and waiting for it to become ...
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