Monthly Archives: January 2009
Article Marketing or Free Classifieds: Which Works Better to Promote Affiliate Products?
Making Money I write and promote my own ebooks to make passive income online. Recently, I started to promote an affiliate product to add to this income stream. It’s a product unrelated to freelance writing, which is my primary niche. And, this has proven to be eye opening on many levels when it comes to online marketing. How Effective Is Article Marketing When Promoting Affiliate Products? The only thing I’ve done to promote my affiliate product is to ...
Continue readingHow to blog on a (very small) budget (Part 3 – Marketing your blog)
Blogging, Promote your blog In the first two parts of this mini-series, we have looked at various methods of saving money while building an effective and professional blog. First we looked at money saving tactics for general hosting and domain names, then in Part 2, we presented some ideas for hosting images and scripts on cheap (often free) and reliable servers to reduce bandwidth and hosting costs for our own sites. For this final part of the budget blogging series, ...
Continue readingHidden Content for Registered Users
WordPress Coding & Design It can be quite useful to be able to add in links or information that you want either yourself, as an administrator, or your registered users to see, on the front end of your website. The default template comes with user login/logout link, usually under the Meta Information section, but most people prefer to remove this as they don’t want login links to the general public. However, once you’ve logged in, why not give yourself a ...
Continue reading3 Things You Can Do Today To Improve Blogging
Blogging You can become an A-list blogger in few months if not in few days. But you always have to work hard and keep improving your blogging to get there. If you want to become a professional blogger, you have to go through all the phases that are present before professional. No one starts blogs like a professional unless they have worked for print media or have a deep understanding about blogging (at least in my opinion). As I said, you have to work ...
Continue readingThe Shrinking Microblogging Market
Blogging, Social Media This week, Google announced they were stopping development on Jaiku and releasing it as an open source project maintained by volunteers. This follows just a month after Pownce was bought by Six Apart and shut down. With the economy the way it is, it’s not surprising to see some of these services close, but it has started me thinking about what this means for the overall microblogging market.
Continue readingAnti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin
WordPress Plugins A few months ago I asked readers what they thought about ad blockers, in particular the popular adblock script. Blocking advertisements is a subject that still divides web users although a large percentage of webmasters dislike their visitors using them because their ad revenue drops. If you are in the latter category then you may be interested in a new plugin from Thaya Kareeson called ‘Anti-AdBlock WordPress Plugin‘. The plugin ...
Continue readingHTML Basics: Text Formatting
Design & Coding Using the correct markup or technique for text formatting on a page is often overlooked and subsequently people either underuse or abuse certain tags. For example, there are 3 ways to apply bold formatting to a word – 2 different HTML tags do it by default and a CSS property. When do you use which one? It depends on the nature of the content. Using Spans The span tag identifies a group of inline elements to apply styles to. You can only ...
Continue readingSearching for Your Photos with Tineye
Blogging If you post images on the Web, either as an artist, photographer or just a blogger, you realize that it is trivial for others to take those images and post them elsewhere. Many license their images specifically for that purpose while others attempt to prevent it as much as possible. However, tracking your images once they’ve left your site is a notoriously difficult task. Though Google searches and digital fingerprints can help track text ...
Continue readingNew PayPal Scams: How to Keep the Money You’ve Earned Safe
Internet News With the worsening economy, there are a lot of aggressive scammers out there. Following are two to be aware of, with concrete suggestions on how to keep your money safe online -- 100% of the time.
Continue readingShow Twitter Avatars In Your WordPress Comment Area
WordPress Plugins Smashing Magazine released a new plugin last week which shows a commenters Twitter avatar in the comment area. There are still a lot of blog commenters who haven’t signed up with Gravatar many of these people may use Twitter so in effect, this plugin reduces the number of ‘default avatars’ showing in your comment area. The plugin features : Loads user’s avatar by matching the email address to the user’s Twitter email ...
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