Monthly Archives: February 2009
Warning: 3 Actions That Will Make Your Readers Call You ‘A Great Blogger’
Blogging There is no better recognition in blogging than being called as ‘a great blogger’ by your blog readers. Do you want to know the top 3 actions that will make your readers call you as a great blogger? To measure the success you have achieved in blogging, there are many ways like your subscriber count, the number of visits your blog gets per month, the money you earn from your blog, the extra popularity your blog gets every month and being ...
Continue readingQuestions to Ask When Writing a Review
Writing Some of my first blog posts were music reviews. At least, that was the intent. I’m not a particularly critical person and my music knowledge is limited, so the posts came off more as bad comedy then musical critique. The response from audiophiles was not good. Since then, I’ve done a few reviews that better matched my interests, and it’s gone better. In particular, I find my best reviews are the ones where I answer the ...
Continue readingAddicted to blogging?
Blogging Imagine yourself out on a shopping trip with your friends. You have browsed through various shops and are heading towards the food court. Your friends are chatting amongst themselves but you are in a lost world of your own. In your mind, you are sketching the details of the post you are going to make as soon as you reach home. Or you may be participating in an international conference. There is a very interesting presentation going on and ...
Continue readingHow to Find Good Blog Themes
Blogging No matter what blogging platform you use, you are probably going to want to get away from the default theme or template. Most of the time, the default template is meant to be nothing more than something to let you set up and test your installation, not something intended for actual use. Though some platforms, such as Blogger, come with a set of extra themes, even those can seem stock considering they are used already on thousands of other blogs. ...
Continue readingHTML Forms II
Design & Coding Last week I explained the markup required for setting up the main aspects of a form. This week I’m going to explain the form input tag and its various uses. The input tag The input tag offers us several types of field depending on the value of the type attribute used. The different types available are text, password, checkbox, radio, file, hidden, submit, reset, button, image. The type attribute defines the type of input field we’re ...
Continue readingSelf-Publishing: Why You Shouldn’t Write an Ebook
Writing The last couple of weeks, the universe has offered up some business lessons to me like never before. It seems as if every client consultation, query or contact is a mini lesson in disguise. No matter what you call it, eg — God, Allah, Jehovah, the Power Superior – I believe the universe serves up lessons. It’s up to us to recognize them for what they are and learn from them. So what am I babbling on about; what does this have to do ...
Continue readingPost Templates: Speeding Up Common Posts
Blogging Many bloggers do a series of posts that have a similar format or have common elements to all of their posts. Whether its podcast episodes that take a similar structure in their show notes, posts in a topic with a common header or even just a common signature line among all entries, there’s often a lot of repeated content from post to post. However, with default WordPress, there is no easy way of replicating that content. You can save a ...
Continue readingSocial Media Marketing: Should You Outsource It, or Not?
Promote your blog Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve consulted with three or four clients who’ve inquired about the social media marketing services my SEO outsource firm offers. In all cases, the clients decided to hold off on ordering the service. And, lest you think I’m talking myself out of business, here’s why. The Naked Truth about Social Media Marketing Usually, when clients call, they have a vague idea about social media marketing, but practically ...
Continue readingBlogging: How to Get New Life Out of Old Posts
Promote your blog I get asked a lot of the same questions over and over again. And, while I want to answer everyone who contacts me with a question, it’s just not possible. My blog is four years old and I have a few hundreds posts. My website is ten years old, and has over three hundred pages on it. Buried somewhere on these pages is usually the answer to the question. What I used to do was Google key phrases until I find the post that answers the question. ...
Continue readingBuilding a Small Business Website with Blogger – Part 1
Blogger, Making Money In the past few years, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of companies who have a presence online. Almost every major retailer now offers the service to purchase their products online, while consumers are more likely to look up local businesses online rather than reach for a bulky telephone directory. For small businesses or companies who previously have little experience with web design and site building, the process of building a ...
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