Monthly Archives: August 2008
Create a Contact Page Part II
WordPress Coding & Design 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 is valid, even the name given, is of ...
Continue reading3 Best Free Ways To Get Quick Visibility To Your Blog
Blogging 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 so many things. You can write link bait articles, offer a guest post on a blog, ...
Continue readingThe good ol boys network
Blogging 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 be viewed. Here’s a reminder of the requirements : Blogs are at least 3 months ...
Continue readingBecome a millionaire with your blog
Around The Blogosphere 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 hiring other people however there are a few exceptions. The ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : Xfep.com
Reader Blog Critique 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 Social Media to Blogging to Search Engine Optimisation. As will be the norm in this section, the blog ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: How to Prepare for the Busy Season
Making Money 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 because it is one of the easiest ways to make ...
Continue readingGet your blog reviewed by Blogging Tips readers
Site News 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 how to market the blog too. The most helpful and constructive ...
Continue readingEnhance your blog with WP Review
WordPress Plugins I spoke to Dan Grossman recently and he was kind enough to send me a copy of his his new WordPress plugin WPReview. WPReview is a commercial product which lets you add ratings to your posts and pages, effectively making your blog a review site. It currently retails for $97 ($199 for a multi site license). Short Story : What does WP Review do? WPReview is a plugin which adds a star ratings system to your posts. Ratings are very popular in review ...
Continue readingGetting your brand strategy right
Blogging I started my blog on November 7th 2007 after I had spent a lot of time thinking of a brandable name. I had finally decided to go with “Mixed Market Arts,” which was a play-on-words of Mixed Martial Arts, a popular sport in which fighters use a mixture of different types of martial arts. I wanted my marketing blog to share a mixture of internet marketing techniques, thus Mixed MARKET Arts. In theory, it sounded like a hugely brandable ...
Continue readingMiscellaneous Ramblings – August 26th 2008
Blogging Two brief but unrelated stories for everyone PureBlogging Up For Sale The popular blogging advice blog PureBlogging is now up for sale at SitePoint. This probably won’t surprise anyone who knew of the site has the owner David Culpepper has contributed less and less in the last few months. However this does continue the tradition of these kind of blogs being sold within a year or so of starting. In the past these blogs have sold for a good ...
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