Last week I started a short series on creating a contact page for your site, and wrote about the form markup and CSS. This week I’m writing about validation. Contact forms are notorious for being insecure and left wide open for email header injections, allowing someone to hijack your form and spam anyone and everyone through it. However, there are steps you can take to ensure the email address supplied …
A blog with less or no traffic is like a personal diary which no one other than you reads. With a zero traffic blog, you cannot expect to earn anything if earning from your blog is your primary aim. To get people coming to your blog, you need to be indexed in search engines and be at least a “someone” in the blogosphere. To be known in the internet, you can do …
Trey Anderson from Slashbe left a comment today asking if the Reader Blog Critique was going to be a playground for the good ol’ boys network.
I thought I would take the time to respond to this in a post because when I setup this new feature I knew that the minimum requirements I setup could exclude a lot of bloggers and I was concerned about how that could …
Have you ever wondered how much you could make with your blog? Well, there are many online blogs which make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month however when I think of the ones which do I automatically think of large blogs like Engadget, blogs which have many writers and many people making sure the blog ticks over everyday.
It is very rare for a blogger to get to that level without …
The first blog to be critiqued in our new Reader Blog Critique section is David Peralty’s eXtra For Every Publisher. David is an experienced blogger who has worked with many large blogging companies like SplashPress and Bloggy Network and this experience shows in his posts on Xfep, which is where he blogs about everything ranging from …
Freelance writing has busy seasons and slow seasons. We’re headed into the busy one. Following are some things all freelance writers should be doing to prepare for it — especially if you want to make enough to quit your job, pay off bills, save, etc.
3 Things Freelance Writers Should Be Doing Now to Prepare for the Busy Season
1. Review Pricing: This is one of the first areas I look at …
I am adding a new weekly feature to Blogging Tips called Reader Blog Critique.
The idea is simple : every week I will post the URL of a blog with a brief description about it and a few sentences from the blog owner about what they believe needs to be improved. BloggingTips readers will then leave a comment giving feedback on the blogs design and content with some suggestions as to …