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I’ve seen people ask in the past, should they launch their blog without a decent or final theme in place. They get varying answers, some say yes it’s fine, others say no wait. There are pros and cons for both of these answers.

If you’ve already got a decent amount of content written then in my opinion you need to get that site up and running, into the search engines and start getting it known across the web. These days you can grab a professional looking template for…

Many of you will already realize that Google Blogger has a dedicated channel on YouTube where (official) help videos are uploaded to help you make the most from your Blogger blog.

There are currently seven videos to watch, ranging from setting up your first blog to uploading videos and purchasing a custom domain.

But did you know there is also a dedicated Blogger video training site?

Recognized Expert offer over 7 hours and 100 episodes worth of free Blogger training videos. These range from the basics of setting up a blog to building a complete…

I’m not a designer so the idea of designing my own theme doesn’t appeal to me, however there are plenty of free themes available which means I can have a decent looking site and use my time to actually write content for it rather than procrastinating over how it should look.

However, the first thing I do when I download a new WordPress theme for my site is fix the markup. Unfortunately, whilst the themes look great they’re often not coded that well (that’s not saying all theme designers are bad…

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Ever felt that you are just another blogger in the blogosphere? Have you ever thought of branding yourself for a particular thing you do and become known for it? Keep reading the blog post and you will find 3 different ways by which you can brand yourself. There are more than three ways but I guess you shouldn’t confuse yourself when reading the article. After all, the main aim of this article is to teach you some ways using which you can become known in the blogosphere.

In this…

The popular banner exchange service EntreCard is now up for sale at SitePoint. The owner Graham Langdon has put a minium bid of $100,000 and a reserve of just under a million dollars.

He claims that the ad network is serviing 80 million impressions per month, 3 million clicks pre month and is growing at 16%. He also claims the site is making $2,000 a month however there is no revenue or traffic evidence to back any of this up. I’m not disputing these figures but I also think that he…

I got an email today from Linkworth which told me that an advertiser would like me to review their website on my personal blog. It was only for $25 but it was probably worth doing since it only had to be 200 words or more and I could probably write the post in 15 minutes or so.

Before accepting I noticed that the advertiser had stipulated that the review had to be positive, something which I always tell advertisers I can’t guarantee when they enquire about a review. I had a…