Monthly Archives: March 2009
5 Tools to Keep Your Email Safe from Spam
Blogging If you’re a blogger, you probably want people to be able to contact you. However, despite the rise in Twitter and other social networks, good old-fashioned email is still the most universal means of contact on the Web. The problem is that posting your email address online can result in spammers getting adding you to their databases and turning your inbox into a junk-filled cesspool. So how do you share your email address on the Web without ...
Continue reading3 Shocker Reasons Why Article Marketing Is Not Driving Enough Traffic To Your Blog
Blogging The Million Dollar Question Is Does Article Marketing still work? Having put forth this question in a few IM forums and social media blogs, a month or so ago, I was greeted with an overwhelming “No”. This, surprisingly, was the general consensus among MMO enthusiasts, self- proclaimed Internet marketers, and work at home moms. Common responses were,” waste of time”, “saturated”, “not effective anymore”, and “yesterday’s ...
Continue readingSEO Keywords and Phrases
Search Engine Optimisation Today, as a guest blogger for Kevin, I would like to touch on Search engine keywords and phrases. As a freelance writer and ghostwriter, I write an average of sixty to eighty SEO (Search Engine Optimization) articles and/or blogs each week, sometimes more, depending on which companies have hired me and for what purpose. Often, the articles are to promote the company that hired me through SEO keywords and phrases, which are then placed in article ...
Continue readingTweetbacks and Re-Tweets for Blogger blogs
Blogger Twitter has grown to be one of the most successful social media services, so it’s no wonder bloggers seek to utilize many Twitter based applications to enhance the community aspect of their blogs. Tweetbacks and re-Tweets are particularly good functions to include in our blogs: Tweetbacks demonstrate how posts are discussed and syndicated through Twitter, while re-Tweets offer an easier means for readers to Tweet about our posts. While ...
Continue readingCut it Out: The Importance of Writing Tight
Writing Do you write tight or flounder along? The basic rule to good writing is to write tight. Since blogging has come of age, many people have written with redundancy and empty expressions to make their posts longer. Word count, all too often, has taken precedence over good writing skills. The majority of readers on the internet are looking for information and they want this information in as few words as possible. If your blog post is too ...
Continue readingPerformancing Job Board – Best Free Blogging Job Board On The Net
Blogging With Yuwanda leaving the BloggingTips team to move onto new projects, I thought it was a good time to bring some new writers into the BloggingTips writing team. Both to increase the number of quality posts here and to widen the range of topics which are covered here every week. Therefore, I posted details of what I was looking for on my company blog. My company website doesn’t really get a lot of targeted traffic therefore I had to ...
Continue readingCreating a WordPress Plugin III
WordPress Coding & Design This is the final part on the subject of creating a WordPress plugin (read part 1 and part 2). We’ll be modifying our original function, that outputs social bookmark links after each post, so that it works with our new options page. So first we need to modify our display function. At present it just echos out the markup, however we need it to do the following Put the markup into a variable Check which option is set If you should attach the ...
Continue readingDo You Spend A Lot Of Time In Forums? 3 Tips To Use Forums Effectively
Writing Spend little time in forums and still get every single benefit out of it. Wondering how some people almost always get great results using forum for a short amount of time while you are spending hours replying to forum topics and yet not seeing any good result? If you said yes to the above question, you should read this post. I used to spend 3-4 hours everyday, sometimes even 7 hours a day in forums, and get nothing out of it. But I have changed ...
Continue readingTaking the Common Sense Approach to Twittering About Your Job
Blogging A recent article on MSN discussed how twittering can get you fired. Personally, I thought the story exaggerated the risks. The reporter didn’t find anyone that had actually been fired. She did find someone that was applying for a job and said something inappropriate on Twitter, but no one knows if it actually cost that person the job. So we’re left with lots of warnings about the dangers of sharing too much, but no real proof of the ...
Continue readingThe Different Kinds of Hosting
Domain Names & Hosting Whether you are setting up a new blog/site or are outgrowing your current setup, finding new hosting can be a very daunting challenge. One of the biggest problems with hosting is the terminology. There are so many different kinds of hosting out there and their descriptions are not always helpful. Worse still, every kind of hosting is targeted at a different type of user and getting the wrong kind of hosting can leave you either overpaying for ...
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