Blogging Tips

Getting Those Blog Comments

Getting comments on your blog means much more than just getting feedback on what you’re saying. People who take the time to respond to your blog have often bookmarked you and hopefully linked to your site. Regardless, getting blog comments is something that you should have in mind if you’re promoting your blog and want to get a better ranking. There are …

Written by Rob Starr from Rob Starr
Posted on May 31st, 2009 and filed under Promote your blog
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Does Sex Matter When Blogging?

The idea that men and women communicate differently has gained momentum in recent years and it’s a common topic in the areas of relationship advice and couple therapy. This communication theory mainly revolves around the idea that men tend to value information, facts and just want to get to the point quickly, while women tend to want more discussion and support.

Whether this idea is a proven scientific fact or not, most people …

Written by Debbie Harbeson from Debbie Harbeson
Posted on May 29th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Manage Your Social and Dating Lives Easily with OnePoke

OnePoke, currently in public beta, is a very simple easy to use manager for your dating and social networking accounts. OnePoke supports the following social and dating sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on May 29th, 2009 and filed under Social Media
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Is Social News Traffic Worthwhile?

As a blogger I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve reached the front page of Digg a few times, I’ve been Slashdotted a couple of times as well and I’ve even more than a few StumbleUpon storms. I’m by no means an expert on social news but, overall, it has been pretty good to me. I’m always grateful when others submit my work to any social news site and, up until very recently, I went to great, even outrageous, lengths to encourage it.

However, due to a series of problems with my site, I ended up removing all of the social news buttons I had. My original plan was to put them back shortly but I never got around to it. Since then, I’ve suffered no drawback in traffic, as both my visitor and subscriber numbers have continued to climb at approximately the same pace.

The truth is that, while I’ve enjoyed the traffic floods, save for the two times they crashed my server, they have never had much in the way of a lasting impact. When I get a flood of traffic from Digg or Slashdot, the one post involved receives a lot of comments and attention, but once the post cycles off the front page, it is pretty much over.

None of the Digg/Slashdot bumps resulted in a significant increase or subscribers and things pretty much returned back to normal in a day or two. Though I’m not ready, like some, to say Digg traffic is worthless, I definitely think that I may have put too much time and attention on trying to attract Diggs when I should have been focusing on other traffic sources.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on May 28th, 2009 and filed under Blogging, Social Media
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Revisiting WordPress Custom Fields

A few months ago I wrote about Custom Fields in WordPress. At the time I just gave a small example of how these could be used, and a couple of people still didn’t grasp the point of them so I’m going to give a few more examples of using them which will hopefully shed some light on how useful they actually are!

For the basics of using the custom fields in the …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on May 28th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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31 Days to Build a Better Blog

2 months ago Darren Rowse launched his incredibly popular project ‘31 Days to Build a Better Blog‘. In total, around 13 thousand bloggers signed up to the project and every day they were emailed with a task for the and details on how they can achieve …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on May 28th, 2009 and filed under Blogging News
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Parts of Speech: Nouns and Pronouns

You’ve read the title and you probably think nouns and pronouns are easy, and as far as speech goes they are probably the easiest to recognize.  But we have to remember that they also have special classifications.

Knowing the parts of speech can help you as a writer because understanding the functions of grammatical elements allows you to recognize agreement problems, like in subject and verb agreement.  If you can identify certain clauses …

Written by Patti Stafford from Patti Stafford
Posted on May 27th, 2009 and filed under Writing
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