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 keywords on your blog (you can see these…
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 Performancing Jobs Board has got extremely quiet and that used to have a few new jobs…
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 needs to be hard coded into your blog template, you can place the breadcrumbs anywhere…
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 
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 times [in your writings] you mention SEO writers taking low paying jobs. I was just offered, and…
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…
