Monthly Archives: September 2008
Blog Directory returns to BloggingTips
Site News I added a blog directory to BloggingTips last year and it proved incredibly popular. Unfortunately, I had to remove it when the blog was redesigned in May as the script I was using wasn’t too good and was susceptible to spammers. Many of the submissions were not even for blogs and were simply links to drug and sex websites. Thankfully, I found a script which works much better and blends in perfectly with the website and forum. You can see ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: Why Globalization Dictates Upfront Payment
Writing Thanks to the internet, more and more freelance writers are working with clients from all over the world. Email marketing is how I solicit 99% of my new clients. And, this is changing the way I do business. To explain, I’ve been a freelance writer since 1993. I’ve worked in publishing since 1987. When I first started out, most of my clients came via referrals. Hence, the need for upfront payment wasn’t necessary. In all my years of ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : SlyVisions.com
Reader Blog Critique I am proud to announce the 3rd Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique proved popular and I thank all of you who contributed. I’m still waiting on Mohamads opinion on what the best comment was though rest assured the winner will be emailed as soon as I hear back from him (if not I’ll decide what the best comment was). This weeks critique is SlyVisions, a blog which concentrates on blogging, internet marketing and making money ...
Continue readingText Link Ads publicly launches inLinks
Making Money I logged into Text Link Ads tonight and noticed that they have upgraded their design and moved things around a little. As you can see from the image below, the navigation has been greatly improved. One of the first things I noticed was that their old tools section has been removed, you know, the page which had the blog juice and text link ad calculator. They had removed the Text Link calculator after all the problems with Google etc so I assume ...
Continue reading5 Reasons why you shouldn’t use Entrecard
Promote your blog EntreCard exploded onto the blogging scene at the end of year and gained a huge presence on thousands of blogs. The site was marketed very strongly at some blog conferences and many popular bloggers added the Entrecard widget to their blogs and encouraged other bloggers do so as well. I tried Entrecard myself for a few months but the longer I used it the more I realised how flawed and ineffective it is. Recently I have given some feedback to ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.6.2 released
WordPress Less than a month after 2.6.1 was released, WordPress have publicly released 2.6.2 for download. This release is recommended in particular to those who allow users to register on their blog. According to WordPress : If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s ...
Continue reading5 Related Posts Techniques for Blogger Blogs
Blogger A relatively easy method of increasing page views on your blog is to add a list of related posts below each article. This offers readers a ready-made reading list of other articles on your blog, which are of a similar theme or subject matter. For those using Blogger to publish their blogs, there are a few different methods available to display a list of related posts. These “related posts hacks” return a list of recent articles from ...
Continue readingInterview with Sarah Perez from Read Write Web
Interviews To be able to make a full time living from blogging is the dream of many bloggers and the position which many aspire to. Which is why I was very happy when Sarah Perez agreed to answer some questions for you all. Sarah has been blogging on her own blog Sarah In Tampa since 2004 however most of you will know her from her posts at the hugely popular Read Write Web. The journey from part time to full time blogger is rarely an easy one so I’m ...
Continue readingCreate a Contact Page Part III
WordPress Coding & Design I recommend you read Part I and Part II of this series if you haven’t already. In the previous posts on this subject, I’ve explained the basic page template and the validation that we need to do for our contact form. Finally we can deal with the actual emailing of the form content and then put it all together. Emailing the form content The theory behind this is to grab all of the information from the form, put it into a message ...
Continue readingHow To Convert The Free Traffic Into Precious Readers
Blogging Are you struck in converting the free traffic or paid traffic that you get to your site, to your blog’s precious readers? Ever felt that you are letting the people that come to your blog, go away from your site without taking any action? Never leave even a single way to attract them and to make them your blog’s precious readers. If you had read my previous article on 3 best free traffic ways, you should probably have good idea of how to get ...
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