Monthly Archives: August 2008
Add Breadcrumbs to your WordPress Blog
WordPress Plugins The ever resourceful Joost de Valk has released a great little plugin for WordPress which automatically adds breadcrumbs to your blog. Breadcrumbs are those handy navigational links which you find at the top of many sites and forums. They make your blog more user friendly and help search engines map your blog more easily. Heres an example of the breadcrumb the plugin added to the BT Simplicity Theme page : Since the if statement for the plugin ...
Continue readingSome funny Blogging pics
Blogging I came across a few funny blogging pictures the other day whilst browsing Google Images. The pics have been posted on numerous blogs and websites so you may have come across them before (I’m unsure what site the pics originated from). Anyways, I thought I would share them with you all. Enjoy
Continue readingSEO Copywriting Rates: How to Get $100/Article or More
Making Money Yesterday on my blog, I posted about getting to the $100/article mark for my search engine optimization (SEO) writing. I received a few emails last week from fellow freelance writers that made me realize the need to explain why/how I can command these rates — and you can too! Emails from Fellow Freelance Writers About SEO Copywriting Rates I received the following email last Tuesday from a fellow SEO writer. It read in part: Query: Several ...
Continue readingWill Yahoo Buzz take a chunk out of Digg?
Social Networking 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 ...
Continue readingEssential Sidebar Information
Blogging 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 ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – July 19th August 2008
Links Kevin Muldoon – BloggingTips.com : Blogger Interviews 6 reasons why you shouldn’t obsess about your Technorati Authority 7 Ways to Extend a Blog Ryan Caldwell on Performancing Ads, the Ad Network for Bloggers Be Flexible With Income Making Techniques The Difference Between Blogging And Content Sites Making Money Online… by Being Sneaky? – Learn How to Profit On Ordinary Posts StumbleUpon is My Biggest Traffic Source, Without Even ...
Continue readingWhat is your linking policy?
Blogging 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 ...
Continue readingCreate Your Own Template II
WordPress Coding & Design 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 ...
Continue readingHow to add an extra sidebar
WordPress Coding & Design Say your theme only has one sidebar.php and you want to have a different sidebar on your index then on your archives page. Adding extra sidebars is surprisingly easy and this is how to do it. First we’ll create the sidebars. You can copy your current sidebar file and rename it to something like sidebar_two or sidebar_archives, almost anything you want really. If you decide to create it from scratch and want to maintain the widgets ...
Continue readingTake Your Blog To The Next Level
Blogging Image Source: SMercury98 I talked about how to get blogging confidence and creating your own style of blog posts in my last two posts. If you have mastered both, you should try to take your blog to the next level. You cannot become an authority over night. It takes time, in fact, a lot of time if you are not good in coming up with unique ideas. The first thing you have to aim once you master the skill of creating your own blogging style is to ...
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