Blogging Tips

What’s In My Feed Reader

I mentioned in a previous post about goals that my early blogging days saw me as what is now termed a “mommy blogger”. As my interest in blogging grew, so did my passion for finding other blogs about blogging, technology, and writing. I still have some mommy blogs (OK, more than “some”–a lot) in my feed reader, but I find that I am mostly reading tech blogs now. I have some …

Written by Melanie Nelson from Blogging Basics 101
Posted on October 31st, 2008 and filed under Around The Blogosphere
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The HTML Document Head

In your (X)HTML page, after your opening doctype and html tag, the next tag should be the opening of your document header using the head tag.

The Head section contains all of the header information for the page. Besides the content of the title tag, the rest of the information is usually not shown visually on the screen, but instead either gives certain readers (eg. screen readers, search engine spiders) additional information …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on October 30th, 2008 and filed under Design & Coding
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BlogRush Shutting Down

Looks like we have seen the last of the widget banner exchange service BlogRush.

If you visit the website all you will see if this message :

After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.

When BlogRush launched in late-2007 it spread …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on October 30th, 2008 and filed under Blogging News
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SEO for Affiliate Bloggers: Categorizing Your Promotions

There are a quite a few tricks to finding real success as an affiliate blogger. In addition to choosing the right affiliate program and properly using the different affiliate marketing tools that it offers, you also have to consider what products to promote and then make sure you do so in an ethical way.

But what about SEO? …

Written by CT Moore from Share Results
Posted on October 30th, 2008 and filed under Blogging, Making Money
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Brian Gardner launches Revolution 2

At the start of the month I told you all about Brian Gardner’s decision to release his incredibly popular Revolution series for free. His original plan was to release the new open source versions of the themes on November 1st but looks like he couldn’t wait as he has released it a few days early today.

The new themes …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on October 29th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Themes
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Win a Professional Edition of Performancing Metrics

Today is the third week of our $1,500 Forum Competition.

This weeks prize is a year long license of the professional edition of Performancing Metrics online stats software (worth $59), kindly donated by Performancing.

Competition Details

Here is this weeks question :

What would be the three most important traffic details or information
you would want to see in your analytics software overview, aside from
page views and uniques?

As always, I …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on October 29th, 2008 and filed under Competitions
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Internet Marketing: How to Place a Traffic-Drawing Ad

Last week, I wrote a three-part series on internet marketing. Many readers wrote in asking additional questions, which has drawn out this series. This is the unofficial sixth – and last – installment.

Today’s topic is how to place and ad – not the mechanics of it, but the factors you should consider when you want to place an ad that will draw traffic and increase sales.

Internet Marketing: Guidelines to …

Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial
Posted on October 29th, 2008 and filed under Making Money
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