Monthly Archives: September 2008
Links Roundup – September 23rd 2008
Links ProBlogger Turns 4 Today! – Congratulations to Darren on ProBlogger reaching it’s 4th year. 7 Reasons Why Guest Posting is Integral to Any Linkbuilding Campaign Link Building Via Blog Comments Write a Solid Article in 15 Minutes 5 Surefire Ways to Piss Me Off on StumbleUpon How to Grow a Blog Post in 7 Easy Steps Opportunities for Established Blogs: Motivation to Grow Your Blog Trademark and Blogs
Continue readingCapture colors easily with Ades Color Picker
Software & Programs Abdylas Tynyshov contacted me today about a new a new script he has developed called AdesClrPicker. The script is free to download and is very quick and easy to use, infact, the download file is just over 1mb in size. So what does the script do? Well, if you are like me then you probably capture colors from your desktop on a regular basis to help you design and edit your blog, logos, screenshots and more. For example, if you see a great color ...
Continue readingHow to create an “Admin Control Panel” in your Blogger template
Blogger Hiding the Blogger nav-bar is one of the most popular customizations for Blogger blogs. The advantage of this is that your blog design does not immediately appear to be powered by Blogger, and it is very useful for designs where the appearance of the nav-bar distracts from the overall design of the blog. The only downside of removing the nav-bar is that the admin links for “New post”, “Customize” and “Log Out” ...
Continue readingCreate a Magazine Style Theme II
WordPress Coding & Design Last week I gave an example of how to create a magazine style theme. This method allowed you to have a main post followed by a list of titles. This week I’ll explain how to separate these on the page so that you can have a far greater control over your layout. The Latest Post Rather than using the WordPress loop to display the latest post in full, we can use the get_posts() function to grab the latest post and display it in full. To do ...
Continue reading3 Surefire Ways To Get Tons Of Content Ideas
Blogging Image Source: apesara Do you sit in front of computer to write an article and don’t come up with any content idea? Ever had trouble coming up with a topic to write on at very important situations like when you have got a back link from a popular blog? What I’m letting you know in this article will surely help you in coming up with content ideas easily without thinking for a lot of time. It’s not a guarantee. But you will see results if you ...
Continue reading100 Great Blog Logos
Design & Coding A great design is an important part of branding and promoting a blog. Content may be king however the first bite is still with the eye and the logo is the first thing many visitors look at when they visit a site for the first time, whether they realise it or not. Be it an emblem, picture, icon, sign or symbol, a great logo makes it easy for visitors to immediately recognise your blog. The logo is also usually used on banners, business cards, ...
Continue readingHow Bloggers Can Use Affiliate Marketing Tools
Making Money So you’ve decided to monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, and you’ve chosen an affiliate network that’s right for you, your blog topic, and your audience. And that affiliate network offers you all kinds of “creatives” you can use to promote products and services that you’re willing to stand behind. There text links, and banner, and widgets oh my. Now the question that remains is “what are you ...
Continue readingBefore Posting: Think Like a Common Person
Blogging Recently, I wrote what I thought would be a great link bait about vehicles that I would love to own, but in doing so, I might not have been thinking like the common person in the demographic I was supposed to be targeting, as my post quickly got a vast number of negative comments towards it. The vehicles I had chosen were either too expensive for the average person to ever own or too cheap to be lusted after like the super cars of today. I had ...
Continue readingWeb Entrepreneurs: Why an Ugly Website May be More Profitable for You
Making Money I was reading an interview featuring Markus Frind of PlentyofFish. Mr. Frind’s site is the world’s largest online dating website. According to published reports, Markus pulls in over $10,000 to $20,000 a day from Google AdSense alone. His overall income is $5 million to $10 million a year. Plentyof Fish.com is one of the ugliest sites online. It looks like a newbie web designer threw it up, got it operational and turned his interest to ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : LetsSermo.com
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 4th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of SlyVisions went well so thanks to all who took part, in particular Rarst and Banji who left long detailed replies. This weeks critque is Let’s Sermo, a blog which covers a range of topics including technology, search engine optimisation, humour and more. I asked the owner Farrhad, a student from India, what he thought needs to be done to improve the blog. Here’s what he had ...
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