Monthly Archives: November 2008
Blog Marketing: How to Use Holiday Down Time to Grow Your Blog Traffic
Blogging In yesterday’s post here, we discussed holiday blog marketing. As in, what you should be doing now that the holidays are here and you may be thinking, “Nobody’s reading my posts now anyway.” Think again. Today, I want to give some more advice along these lines. When you’re an online entrepreneur, there just never seems to be enough time in the day. There’s always, always, always something that you just never seem to have time to get ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : Tomuse.com
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 14th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of Linkersblog.com had some great replies so I’m sure this weeks critique will generate some great feedback too. This weeks review is on ToMuse, a blog which covers new technology, business start-ups, Web 2.0, websites, gadgets, web tools, open source software, computers, electronics, and various other random things. . Here are the questions the owner Kevin would like to ask you ...
Continue readingHow secure is your domain name?
Domain Names & Hosting A websites worth is tied to it’s domain name. When you build traffic to a website you are building traffic for that domain name, when you develop back links to the site you are developing links for that domain name. If you lose your domain name you effectively lose your business and everything you have spent working towards. This is why it’s important to lock your domain, why you should always make sure your domain is auto renewed ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – November 25th 2008
Links Another roundup of some great blogging related posts for you guys When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled – Kara Swisher talks about Facebooks efforts to purchase Twitter. Apparently Facebook offered $500 million worth of Facebook stock rather than cash. If I Started Today – Chris Brogan talks about what he would do differently if he has to start all over. Google Writes Guide For Bloggers – Google ...
Continue readingBe A Magpie : Make Money Through Twitter
Making Money First we had TwittAd and now we also have Be A Magpie, the latest service which aims to help Twitter users make money. Whereas TwittAd allowed advertisers to add a background to your Twitter account, Be A Magpie actually sends out advertisements as Tweets. The default is 5 regular tweets and then one advertisement but you can choose to have 20 tweets to 1 advertisement. If you are going to use the service I would encourage you to use that as it ...
Continue readingWordPress Direct : Another Auto Blog Service Arrives
Blogging There seems to be a lot of people out there who want to run a successful blog without actually doing any hard work to get one. Or to be more precise, they want to make money on the web without breaking a sweat! This is why there are so many auto blogs (splogs!) on the web scraping content from legitimate bloggers. The latest service to capitalize on the lazy blogging phenomenon is WordPress Direct, who released a press release yesterday that ...
Continue readingHoliday Blog Marketing: Are You Killing Your Online Business with This Mistake?
Promote your blog This week is a holiday week in the United States – Thanksgiving. Hence, a lot of us have shifted our focus away from work and into holiday mode. Mistake! While I’m all for enjoying the holidays, this is a warning to those who go about it in the wrong way. What do I mean? Basically, no play until all of your work is done. The #1 Mistake Bloggers, Freelance Writers and Other Solo Entreprenuers Make During the Holiday Season The number one ...
Continue readingEnhance your blog posts with free high quality images
Design & Coding One of the easiest ways to enhance your blog posts is using high quality images. This breaks up long sections of text and adds interest to your articles, especially when you can find relevant images which complement your written content. There are many premium photo sites, such as Dreamstime and Fotolia from which you can purchase high quality photographs to use in your blog posts. But if you are just starting out or are working to a tight ...
Continue readingYour Theme and WordPress 2.7
WordPress Coding & Design With the release of WordPress 2.7 just around the corner, it’s time to check on your theme and add in the new functionality available to make the most of it. Also, if you currently offer themes either as free or premium, then these changes are definitely something you need to be adding in. There are 3 main changes for your theme files to consider – Post Classes, Logout Links and Comment Display. Post Classes The first new feature is ...
Continue readingBinny Releases 6 WordPress Plugins In A Week
WordPress Plugins Binny V A, a web developer based in India, has managed to release 6 WordPress Plugins in a week. I think this is a great achievement so I thought I’d give you all a quick summary of each plugin. You may find some of them useful Summaries provided by Binny : Eventr WordPress Plugin – Eventr plugin lets you use your blog as an event management tool. You can create an event – the plugin will let people sign up for the event ...
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