Monthly Archives: September 2009
Don’t Listen to “The Voices”
Blogging They’re out there. They really are. I can’t think of a better blogging tip than this one. Because anybody — blogger, journalist, letter writer… anybody – who has faced a blank screen has heard “the voices” of self-doubt. Just Don’t Listen Because those voices of doubt are lying to you. The voices come from within, even when you recognize them as echos of others. If you don’t ...
Continue reading5 Things Haunting Taught Me About Blogging
Blogging Every year I run a small, free neighborhood haunted house out of my garage. It’s a mammoth undertaking every year involving countless hours of work, a staff of about four or five helping during crunch times and months of planning. All for about 12 combined hours of “open” time in late October. However, like every large undertaking I’ve tried, it’s come with its share of life lessons, at least a few of which apply to ...
Continue reading3 Easy Ways To Deal With RSS Overload
Blogging Keeping up with other blogs is a fun part of blogging, but it can also be tough as you add more and more feeds to your RSS reader. If you groan whenever you open your feed reader, then it’s time to get tough with feed management Reduce How many of the feeds in your reader do you actually look at? If you use Google Reader, then click on the trends button to see which feeds you read most and which are updated most often. That’s a good ...
Continue readingProBlogger Workbook reduced to $9.97 for 24 hours
Blogging News To celebrate 5 years of ProBlogger, Darren Rowse has decided to reduce the cost of his popular eBook ‘31 Days to Build a Better Blog‘ to $9.97. This offer is only valid until 8pm MST on 24th September. 31 Days to Build a Better Blog This massive 94 page workbook contains 31 unique tasks to help you build a better blog. The month long training will give you lots of ideas on how you can improve your blogs traffic and income levels. I ...
Continue readingFor those who have had problems viewing Blogging Tips
Site News A lot of people have been having problems viewing Blogging Tips recently. This post is just to let you know that you shouldn’t have any problems viewing the site now (this message is primarily for RSS subscribers who couldn’t view the main site). So what happened? Well, last month I removed the Feedburner plugin which redirects the feed to Feedburner and replaced it with a redirection code in the main htaccess file. This allowed me ...
Continue readingMore Common and Uncommon Words, Commonly Misused
Writing Earlier in the week I shared CONFUSING WORDS, COMMONLY MISUSED. Today I want to continue with words that may or may not be common in your vocabulary, but they are often misused. Also, check out some of Patricia Vennes’ posts to find more. Having many readers whose first language is not English, we like to share these common words to help them better understand our vocabulary. I’ve heard that English is the hardest language to learn. ...
Continue readingReward your Readers for Visiting Your Blog
Blogging You have a blog. You post content regularly. You market yourself and your brand across the web in order to get return traffic to your site. Now what? Once you have done all the work to get the readers to visit your site, you should reward them. Give your readers some enticing reasons to stick around and stay awhile. Fill your blog with points of interest and they will be more likely to stay on your site longer and come back for more. This is ...
Continue readingFree E-Book: The Robots Standard Exclusion
Search Engine Optimisation I am proud to announce the release of the latest addition to our book area; ‘The Robots Standard Exclusion‘. The book gives shows you how you can control search engine robots who crawl your blog via the robots.txt file. This 36 page e-book spans 6 chapters and is available for free to all our blogging newsletter subscribers. The Robots Exclusion Standard The Robots Exclusion Standard was developed in 1994 to give webmasters control ...
Continue readingWordPress – Stay Current and Stay Safe
WordPress While it is always important to keep your WordPress software current, this past summer saw a barrage of updates and security issues. Like any Internet based application, WordPress is no stranger to security issues. In fact back in 2007 this article, WordPress Version 2.2 Hack Warning, was posted on Blogging Tips. This summer saw a barrage of updates: WordPress 2.8 was released on June 10th and by August 12th version 2.8.4 was released for a ...
Continue readingConfusing Words, Commonly Misused
Writing Today I want to cover words that we often get confused and use out of context. We will not be covering the proper use of words like, “their, they’re, there” or “two, too, to.” We’re going to discuss words that are a bit more complicated. Many of us may not even think about these words and have no clue if they are used improperly or out of context, but for those who are familiar with these words, they know when ...
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