Monthly Archives: December 2008
Viral Blogging
Blogging As a term, “viral marketing” is something that gets thrown around so much that it’s easy to dismiss it as a mere buzz word. You still can’t ignore, however, that content does go viral, and it’s not only just Mentos and Diet Coke. Companies do intentionally make viral content that, in turn, makes them money. Just consider the subservient chicken. The lesson, here, for bloggers is that viral content can be ...
Continue readingDo You Have the Balls to Be a Freelance Writer or Blogger?
Making Money I’ve been freelancing for so long that maybe I’m a little jaded. About once a week, I’ll receive an email from a wannabe freelance writer in essence saying they’re scared to start; scared to “pull the trigger” as Christine from SelfMadeChick.com says. My response is, “Scared of what?” Scared it might not work out? Scared you won’t be able to pay your bills? Scared you’re not talented enough? Scared clients won’t like your ...
Continue readingWhat do you think about double posting?
Blogging In October Melanie Nelson from Blogging Basics 101 wrote a few posts at BloggingTips (paid posts). In one of our email conversations she mentioned that she likes to retain full rights of any post she writes so that she can post it elsewhere on the web. This was something I was strongly against as I want all posts on BloggingTips to be original and I don’t want content duplicated elsewhere on the web. Recently I noticed Melanie wrote a good ...
Continue readingReader Blog Critique : JobMob.co.il
Reader Blog Critique Welcome to the 16th Reader Blog Critique. Last weeks critique of Techie Buzz had some good replies from abhishek, Pavan Kumar and as always, Rarst. This weeks review is on JobMob, a blog which aims to bring together job seekers and jobfinders to find jobs in Israel and all over the world. Here is what the owner Jacob thinks needs to be addressed : Subscribers don’t have enough incentive to come back to the site regularly and I’m not willing ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers & Bloggers: How to Bill and Get Paid Quickly
Making Money As a freelance writer and blogger, I have all types of clients. Some are individual website owners; others are internet marketing firms and I have a few that are mid- to large corporations. My favorite clients are small business owners (online entrepreneurs, individual website owners, independent graphic design firms, etc.). Why? Because they are the decisionmakers. There’s nothing like having to go through a bunch of red tape to hold up your ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – December 9th 2008
Links Some good blog posts from the last week that I think you will all enjoy Online Advertising And Its Impact On Web Design – A fantastic post about how you should design your website with advertising in mind by Steven Snell. 4,439 Words on Driving Traffic to Your Blog – A good article about driving traffic to your blog. Upgraded to WordPress RC1 – Sarah gives her thoughts on the 1st release candidate of the upcoming WordPress 2.7. ...
Continue readingAre Smaller Blogs Less Affected By The Economic Slowdown?
Blogging Ths credit crunch has affected many companies around the world and forced many large blog networks to cut jobs, staff rates and the amount they spend on advertising. Not everyone thinks this is necessarily a bad thing. John “wardrox” from Negative Gamer wrote a fantastic post yesterday entitled Could The Recession Reorder The Blogosphere?. John reckons that the large blogging websites will be most affected. He notes : They are left ...
Continue readingHow to Choose a Social Media Marketing Outlet
Promote your blog I recently signed up to Twitter. And I love it. It’s short, simple and sweet. I’ve been reluctant to immerse myself in social networking because I simply don’t have the time it takes to devote to it. Even though I have a MySpace page, and am LinkedIn, between client projects, writing and promoting my own ebooks, blogging, and updating my website, I barely have time to invoice clients to get paid – that’s just how busy my days are. ...
Continue readingChange the “Subscribe to posts/comments” link in your Blogger template
Blogger In most Blogger templates, you will see a link beneath the main posts section which says “Subscribe to posts (Atom)” or “Subscribe to post comments (Atom)”, depending on the type of page you are viewing. This basic link is intended to encourage visitors to subscribe to one of your blog’s feeds after reading your blog posts. However, with a little manipulation we can make this link become a much more useful and ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.7 Theme Enhancements III
WordPress Coding & Design This is the final installment of how to update your theme to make use of the new WordPress 2.7 comment features. Comment threading has been added to 2.7, which means that rather than your list of comments going in a straight order of date added, people can reply to a specific comment and their comment will appear below and indented from the comment they’ve replied to. There are pros and cons of using this method in my opinion. It means ...
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