Monthly Archives: November 2008
Why Bloggers Shouldn’t Worry About Subscriber Counts
Blogging One of the responders to my post yesterday wrote the following comment: I think the subscribers thing is overrated now after I have quite blogging. I finally realized that the non-subscribers are the ones that actually participate and interact in the blog posts. I’m not so sure about the truth of this on its face, but it kind of solidified what I’ve believed for a long time. Mainly that, you shouldn’t worry so much about your blog’s ...
Continue readingInterview with Suzanne Franco
Interviews I’m sure many of you will know Blogging Tips Forum member Suzzane Franco (forum username wahmsuzanne), who has been blogging since February 2008. Her blog covers a wide range of topics including affiliate marketing, social networking, search engine optimisation and more. Suzanne is taking part in Daily Blog Tips blogging contest Blogging Idol 2 and is currently sitting in a respectable 11th place. With so many blogs taking part in Blogging ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : LinkersBlog.com
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 13th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of TechZilo had some great replies from Clare, Rarst & Desk Coder. I’m sure this weeks critique will generate some great feedback too. This weeks review is on Linkers Blog, a blog which helps you build links, traffic and PageRank. Here are the questions the owner Danny would like to ask you all about the blog : What is your favourite and least favourite part of the design? ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – November 17th 2008
Links A quick roundup of some of good posts which have caught my attention in the last week Social Media “Rockstars” vs. “Narcissists” – Brett Borders gets his new social media blog off to a great start with this comparison of social media rockstars and self absorbed douchebags! 181 Free Twitter Buttons, Badges, Widget and Counters to Help You Find Followers – A fantastic collection of Twitter images and widgets. 10 Mistakes That ...
Continue readingBlogging in a Recession: How to Keep the Visitors Flowing In
Promote your blog According to the latest reports on CNN, Japan, the world’s second largest economy behind the United States, is officially in a recession. If you blog for money, this news should be important to you because bloggers run international “empires,” so to speak. So, how can you keep the visitors – and the dollars – flowing in during a worldwide recession? Following are three things to keep in mind that help. 3 Ways to Keep Your Blog’s ...
Continue readingShow Date For All Posts in Blogger
Blogger Most bloggers prefer to display the date a post was published, which is often relevant to the subject matter of the post. Indeed, most blog templates include some elements of CSS styling for the post date (or date heading as it is often known). When using Blogger to publish your blog, the date heading is only displayed for the most recent post of any given day. This means that if you make several posts in a single day, the date heading will only ...
Continue readingCreating Author Pages
WordPress Coding & Design If you’re running a multi author WordPress site then at some point you’re going to want to have a list of the authors on your site, and give them their own page. All Blogging Tips authors have their own author page for example, which gives a brief bit of information about the author plus a list the posts they’ve written – view mine. Creating an author page is not as straightforward as other template files, however once ...
Continue reading3 Ways To Convince Your Readers To Buy From You
Making Money There are many products that are released every month and almost all the top products are promoted by the top bloggers. So many people promote the same product that readers don’t know from whom they should buy. You saw Yaro Starak’s blog mastermind promoted by many of the top bloggers. There was also a product called the product launch formula launched by Jeff Walker. These are highly priced products and many of the top bloggers jumped into ...
Continue readingIs the Blogosphere Dying or Evolving?
Blogging Nicholas Carr of Rough Type wrote an article for Brittanica 3 days ago called Blogosphere, R.I.P.?. In the article he talks about how blogs, as we know them, are dying and are becoming more mainstream. I recommend reading the article before reading the rest of this post One Sided View I agree with some of the points he makes in this article but on the whole I feel it is very one sided and singles out blogs unfairly. For example, near the start ...
Continue readingHTML Basics: Linking Pages
Design & Coding To create links internally or externally we use the a tag. The ‘a’ stands for ‘anchor’ and is commonly used in the form of <a href="http://www.bloggingtips.com">Blogging Tips Link</a> Anchor tags have a number of attributes available to them. The more common ones are: href Defines the destination url rel Describes the relation between the document and the destination url. Can have a number of values ...
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