Monthly Archives: September 2008
Is removing the nofollow tag from comments a good idea?
Blogging Last week SEO blogger Alysson Fergison decided to remove the nofollow tag from comments to see if it generates more discussion on her blog. She is using Michele Marcucci’s WordPress plugin NoFollow Free, which lets the blog owner remove the nofollow tag from commenters with a certain number of posts. In the short term she said it has worked like a charm however I am interested to see how this works out for her long term. The problems which ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – September 16th 2008
Links How can I add the orange RSS button to my blog so people can subscribe to my feed? On Linkbaits, Socialbaits and Viral Content Is b5 Media about to face a mass exodus of bloggers? The Publisher’s Guide to Understanding RSS The True Gold of Blogging – Link Relevance 3 ‘Fears’ that Stop Aspiring Bloggers From Succeeding
Continue readingBlogger Label Functions (The Basics)
Blogger When publishing with Blogger, we can categorize our posts using “Labels”. Published posts which have labels attached produce a link to each label in the post-footer section which links to a page displaying all posts categorized under this label. We can also add a “Labels” widget which generates a list of all labels currently in use linking to posts in the appropriate category. Aside from the basic categorization of blog ...
Continue readingBlog Design Makeover panel at IzeaFest
Design & Coding The Reader Blog Critique has proved popular with readers so I thought you would all be interested in the ‘Blog Design Makeover‘ panel at IzeaFest in Olando. The video is about 56 minutes long but it makes interesting viewing. First up is Matt Blancarte from Unique Blog Designs followed by Scott Allen and Christopher Schmitt. I’m sure it will help some of you with your own blog designs.
Continue readingCreate a Magazine Style Theme
WordPress Coding & Design A few weeks ago I wrote about how to create your own template for WordPress. A type of design growing in popularity is the Magazine style theme. Probably because it comes across as a more professional look and is maybe a bit less overwhelming to first time visitors, as it typically only displays the most recent post in full, and then lists previous posts. The first time I saw a magazine style theme was The Morning After from Arun Kale. There ...
Continue readingTechCrunch has over 1 million RSS subscribers
Around The Blogosphere Michael Arrington yesterday annouced that TechCrunch now has over 1 million RSS subscribers. Anyway you look at it, for a site which has been online for just over 3 years this is an unbelievable achievement. Maybe someday BloggingTips will break the 1 million mark
Continue readingHow To Make At Least 63% Of Your Feed Readers To View Your Blog Posts
Blogging Image Source: mandj98 Tired of writing good posts only to see you have 5-10% of clicks from your feed readers? Want to increase it by many times and get around 63% of your feed readers to click and read your blog in your blog and take some action? In the last post, I explained some of the things you could do to convert the free traffic into precious readers. If you follow them, you can easily get a good increase in the number of subscribers. ...
Continue readingBloggingTips joins the 9Rules Network
Site News I am proud to announce that Blogging Tips has joined the 9Rules Network. The 9Rules Network is an independent website which was started way back in 2003 and aims to bring the best content on the web in one location. It’s a beautifully designed website and a great example of how a network should be developed. You can see Blogging Tips posts in the Blogging Section. In this section you will also find Lorelle on WordPress and other new ...
Continue readingIt’s a bad time to buy a blog but it’s a great time to sell!
Making Money Buying, selling and flipping websites has become incredibly popular over the last few years. I first starting trading websites around 2002 but it’s much more common now than it was then. The Sitepoint Marketplace and the Digital Point Site Room are the two places I check most regularly though there are dozens of other great web development related forums with trading areas but those are the ones I usually check first before the likes of ...
Continue readingWhat Bloggers Should Look for in an Affiliate Network
Making Money Last week, I covered how to monetize your blog with affiliate marketing. Of course, that just begged the questions: What should a blogger look for in an affiliate network? Now, affiliate marketing is a business model that emerged long before blogs ever existed, and it evolved to help the merchant make sales. Helping webmasters make money was only an incentive to help merchants make those sales. The result was that affiliate webmasters built ...
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