Monthly Archives: August 2008
Links Roundup – August 26th 2008
Links 10 tips to get more traffic from Stumble Upon 30 Tips For Exploding Your Site Traffic Ads are the new online tip jar Blog Tip Sharing Project 12: Etiquette Engaging the Offline Customer: Do You Talk with Non-Bloggers? Do You Consider These 5 Things Before Hitting the PUBLISH! Button? Liz Strauss: The Secret of Being a Successful and Outstanding Writer
Continue readingTop 10 Blogger Customizations
Blogger Google’s Blogger platform offers users complete access to their template code. This enables Blogger users to customize their template in any way they choose, by changing the layout, design or adding extra functionality which is lacking in the default templates. While community support for Blogger is still nowhere near the capacity offered by the WordPress community, there are still many dedicated Blogger enthusiasts tweaking away at the ...
Continue readingCreate a Contact Page Part I
WordPress Coding & Design Once you’ve got an established blog you’ll most likely want a contact page with a contact form on it. Whilst there are a few plugins that do this for you, I tend to find that they either bloat your pages with additional CSS code in the header (CSS code should always be put in an external stylesheet whenever possible), badly written form markup, or probably the worst culprit, the PHP code doesn’t validate the information in the ...
Continue readingMiscellaneous Ramblings – August 23rd 2008
Blogging Some random news and ramblings for you all on this relaxing Saturday afternoon Looking to hire a blogger I’ve added a new marketplace to the Blogging Tips Forums. I plan on adding a few rooms but the first one I have added is the Looking to Hire room. This room will let blog owners advertise about paid and unpaid blogging positions they have available. There aren’t too many places where blog owners can do this for free so I thought ...
Continue readingHappy Birthday Unique Blog Designs
Competitions Today is turning out to be a good day for bloggers. Shortly after posting about PepperJam offering bloggers $10 for posting about their entry into the Inc 500 list, Nate Whitehill emailed me to tell me about the 1 anniversary of Unique Blog Designs. To celebrate this milestone UBD are having a competition. There’s an 8gb Apple iPod Touch and 4 copies of their latest theme (UBD Citrus) up for grabs! Entering the competition is easy. You get ...
Continue readingMake $10 for every post you write about PepperJamNetwork
Making Money PepperJam Network emailed me today about a great offer which they are offering to affiliates. They are offering $10 per post to every blogger who writes about their entry into the Inc 500 list which officially ranks PepperJam as one of the top 100 fastest growing privately-held companies in the United States of America. Attention Pepperjam Network Referral program Affiliates and Bloggers. I’d like to encourage each of you that have a blog ...
Continue readingGoogle Adsense for Feeds
Making Money Google emailed me today to let me know that they have migrated my account from FeedBurner to my Google account. This is good news as it allows me to use Google’s new Adsense for Feeds option. This means that I now access my feed stats at feedburner.google.com instead of FeedBurner.com but the look and feel of the control panel is the same. Here’s the confirmation email they sent me : Hello Kevin, Success! As you requested, we have ...
Continue readingBlogger’s latest updates and enhancements
Blogger Over the past few months, Google-owned Blogger has seen more than its fair share of updates and enhancements. From a whole new look to the Blogger dashboard to inline comment forms and star ratings, it seems that Blogger is giving more attention to the needs of its users. On Friday, Blogger users were happy to see yet more updates added to the recent list of enhancements: post “reactions”; Google Gadget integration and a whole new ...
Continue readingMy first week with Kontera
Making Money For the last week I have been using Kontera on a few of my blogs, including BloggingTips. I signed up to Kontera last year but I never got round to adding it to any of my sites but Kontera Rep Brian Larson got in contact with me a few weeks ago and persuaded me to try it out. For those who don’t know, Kontera is an in-text affiliate solution. By placing a small piece of code on your blog, Kontera generates affiliate links with certain ...
Continue readingIs it harder to get a blogging job than it used to be?
Blogging David Peralty asked his readers the other day if they thought blogging jobs were slowing down and noted that many bloggers had talked about the decreasing number and per job rate of blogging and web related positions. I’ve actually noticed this myself in the last few weeks. I added a Looking to Hire room in the Blogging Forums recently though I don’t expect it to be a busy room for a while because of this slow down. Even the ...
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