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 commenter will win a prize.
I hope that all…
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 sites and using this plugin will let you add this functionality…
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 name. In reality, the branding backfired.
There were multiple big problems with the…
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 price so best of luck to David and here’s hoping the blog sells…
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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 template code to devise new customizations, functions and hacks which we can use to enhance our readers’ experience of Blogger hosted…
