Blogging Tips

Top 5 Free Services To Make Your Blog Posts Better

Want to become a better blogger and write good blog posts without spending a dime? If yes, continue reading the post.

Let me tell you that this post is NOT for you if you don’t want to improve your blog posts spending $0 every year. You read it right: $0.

I wrote a couple of blog posts on becoming a better blogger in the past few weeks. Make sure you didn’t miss …

Written by Ramkarthik from Blogging Tune
Posted on January 31st, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Preparing For an Extended Absence From Your Blog

Any day now, my wife will give birth to our first child. We’re doing our best to be prepared, even though we realize this is an event for which we can never fully prepare. I think we’ve gone through just about every “new parent check list” there is. Something none of these lists cover, though, is what to do with your blog while dealing with a new baby.

Whether it’s a birth, a house guest, or just a vacation, there will always be events in life that interrupt your normal publishing schedule. By doing a little planning ahead of time, you can enjoy those moments and not lose your readership during your down time. If you know you’ve got a situation coming up that will cut into your normal blogging time, here are a few ways to keep readers coming back.

Written by Billy Mabray from NewsGoat
Posted on January 30th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Get Free News Images from PicApp

Last week I discussed Photo Dropper, a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you search Creative Commons-licensed images on Flickr and embed them directly into your posts, complete with correct attribution.

But while Photo Dropper is great for a general image search where the photo doesn’t have to be timely, blogs covering news, celebrity gossip, etc. will be hard pressed to find anything of use in Flickr. Flickr tends to favor creative and personal photos, not news-related images.

If you run a blog that covers current events but don’t have your own photography staff and can’t afford to license for your posts, PicaApp may be able to help. Through its partnership with various stock photo agencies, it millions of photos available for you to freely embed into your blog and they even have a simple WordPress plugin to make the process go more quickly.

PicApp is simply the easiest way to get free, legal professional-quality images into your blog.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on January 29th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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HTML Coding: Tabular Data I

If you want to display tabular data on a page then this is when you should use tables. You’ll get mixed reviews on tables. For those who learned how to code up websites before CSS gained popularity, they’ll have used tables to control their layout, and plenty of people still do (unfortunately!), and for those who have started to learn HTML in recent years, most don’t have a clue about tables except …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on January 29th, 2009 and filed under Design & Coding
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How I Tripled My Twitter Followers Instantly!

I used to look at Twitter as just a place to promote my blog. I never realized its true worth and power. This all changed a few days days ago.  Here is how I got my bit of Twitter success:

1) Before reading Stanly Tang’s post on how he crossed 5000 followers, I was following 25 people and was being followed by …

Written by Farrhad A from Let's Sermo
Posted on January 28th, 2009 and filed under Social Media
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How ArticleMarketer.com Has Almost Doubled My Affiliate Marketing Sales

In yesterday’s post, I talked about how much I was loving ArticleMarketer.com, the article submission site. I’ve always been an avid article marketer, but never signed up with an article submission service because I was always pleased with the results I garnered by submitting manually.

But as I’ve gotten busier and busier since I started SEO writing in late 2007, I simply don’t have the time to devote to manual submission like …

Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial
Posted on January 28th, 2009 and filed under Promote your blog
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Book Preview : Google Blogger For Dummies

Susan Gunelius, a former writer for BloggingTips and owner of many blogs including Women On Business, contacted me recently about her latest book Google Blogger For Dummies.

The book is part of the famous ‘Dummies’ series, which I’m sure you are all familar with.

It’s currently available on Amazon for $16.49 and will …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on January 28th, 2009 and filed under Blogger
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