Yahoo Buzz, the new social media site from Yahoo, is now online and looks very Digg like to say the least. It will be interesting to see how popular this new social site becomes. There are hundreds of digg clones on the net today (many using Pligg) but with the money and the traffic Yahoo has I’m sure it will become a popular site for bloggers in no time.
Might be worth trying Yahoo Buzz out the next few weeks so add a few buttons to your posts and see what traffic…
One of the biggest mistakes new bloggers make is that they add too much clutter to their blogs design. The sidebar is usually the place where a lot of this clutter is put, the area where the blogger adds banners, widgets and anything else which they feel has to be placed somewhere on their blog. It’s not uncommon to see a new blog list several banners for top ten lists on their sidebar or many widgets which display random information about their site (eg. page rank, Alexa score etc).
So what information…
Compared to other online writers, bloggers are definately the most generous when it comes to linking. Most bloggers actively link to websites they love but many times, the favour is not returned.
The reasons for linking
I’m curious as to what websites readers link to. I personally believe that most bloggers subconsciously have a linking policy when it comes to writing their posts, whether they realise it or not.
There are many reasons why bloggers link to another website in their posts however in general they link because :
Last week I explained how to set up your index.php file for your new template. This week I’ll cover the included files, ie. the header, footer and sidebar (if its needed as a separate file).
The Header
Your header needs to be in a file header.php. This is the file that the function get_header() will include, as explained last week. In the header file goes all the markup from the top of the design that needs to be on every page.
First we change the page title to be dynamic. I’ve written about how…
