Monthly Archives: October 2008
What’s In My Feed Reader
Around The Blogosphere 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 really great reads and I want to share those with you. My ...
Continue readingThe HTML Document Head
Design & Coding 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 about the page, ...
Continue readingBlogRush Shutting Down
Blogging News 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 like wildfire all over the Web. Thousands of bloggers were talking about it and the service exploded to become one ...
Continue readingSEO for Affiliate Bloggers: Categorizing Your Promotions
Blogging, Making Money 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? Now, despite all the SEO myths out there, blogs have a number of SEO advantages. But how do you leverage them to actually ...
Continue readingBrian Gardner launches Revolution 2
WordPress Themes 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 can be found at the aptly named Revolution Two. In total there are 10 new themes available for download at Revolution ...
Continue readingWin a Professional Edition of Performancing Metrics
Competitions 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 ...
Continue readingInternet Marketing: How to Place a Traffic-Drawing Ad
Making Money 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 Think About BEFORE Placing an Ad ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : HomeDesignFind.com
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 10th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of Carl Ocab had some great feedback from Hussein, Desk Coder, B. Durant, Rarst and Nicole. This weeks review is on Home Design Find, a magazine style blog which focuses on home design products and ideas. Here are the questions the owner Yaw would like to ask you all about the blog : What do you like and dislike about the design or layout of the site? Content promotion ideas? What do ...
Continue readingClosing Date for Blogging Idol 2 is this Thursday
Competitions Daniel Scocco yesterday announced details of Blogging Idol 2, a huge blogging contest with a whopping $4,500 worth of prizes. I was a big admirer of the first contest and this one looks to be even better with more prizes and fairer rules. Before we talk about the contest, here is a list of all the prizes on offer : A lifetime subscription to Keyword Country (worth $2,000) An annual subscription to the Trackur corporate edition (worth $1,000) ...
Continue readingBlog Ideas : Sports Blog
Blogging One thing which I actively see new bloggers struggle with is the main focus of their blog. I’ve seen many bloggers register a domain name because they liked the name and then they are unsure what to write about and change it from a personal blog to a news blog to a making money online blog or whatever. I’ve registered good domain names in the past myself without thinking too much about how I am going to develop it but I think that ...
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