Monthly Archives: January 2010
How to stop the blank page after leaving a comment in WordPress?
WordPress Coding & Design After resolving the scheduling bug in WordPress 2.9, I noticed that I was getting sent to a blank page after leaving a comment here. The comment would post but you had to hit the back button and then reload to find this out. I tried a few things the other day but put it to the back of my head until Rob Starr reminded me about the problem tonight. Here’s the problem. After leaving a comment you are sent to ...
Continue reading5 Ways to Force Yourself to Take a Break
Blogging Working from home is hard enough. If you’re a blogger working from home, it may be even more difficult to draw the line between work and home. It’s recommended that you take breaks from your computer at least once ever 30 minutes, preserving your eyes and getting your body to stretch. Once we get into the work groove, however, it’s difficult to tear ourselves away from the computer. Here are some ways to force yourself to take ...
Continue readingOfficial WordPress App for Android Coming Soon
WordPress Rumours have been flying around the last few days that WordPress are due to release an official app for Android, Googles operating system for mobile phones. Google have already released official apps for iPhone and Blackberry so it’s a good move, especially when you consider the growing popularity of Android (dozens of Android mobile phones are being released over the next year). Darnell Clayton from The Blog Herald noticed that they have ...
Continue readingFive Blogging Tips
Blogging It doesn’t matter how often we’ve been blogging and writing there are some common faults that we all fall prey to. The following is a list of some of the things that can slow your writing down and in the end even turn readers off from finishing some of your blogs. On the other hand, polish up some of the skills that are mentioned here and you’ll go a long way to getting repeat readers. Sentence Length: Long rambling sentences ...
Continue readingHow to set your geographic target in Webmaster Tools
Search Engine Optimisation The easiest way to ensure Google recognises your blog is targeted towards a specific region is to buy a localised TLD (Top Level Domain). For example, if I was launching a blog about restaurants in London I would register a .co.uk domain so that the blog would list high on Google UK search results. However, there are times when you will not be using a localised TLD. This may be because the domain you want has already been registered though you ...
Continue readingTwitterAlerts Makes Keeping Up with Twitter Easy
Social Media TwitterAlerts is simple; it sends you free Twitter alerts via SMS, email and Yahoo instant messenger. Many people now have multiple Twitter accounts and keeping up with them can get tough, especially if you’re a very busy person. Others like to monitor various keywords for brand monitor or other personal reasons and this is an easy service to do so. TwitterAlerts does not require registration, simply login with Twitter via OAuth. Plus you ...
Continue readingHow to fix the missed schedule bug in WordPress 2.9
WordPress Yesterday (December 31st), there were 3 posts scheduled for BloggingTips, all of which had been written and set to publish using the WordPress schedule feature. One from myself, Sharon Hurley Hall and Patti Stafford. Unfortunately, none of the posts published at the times they were supposed to. I checked the post area in WordPress and I got the message ‘Missed Schedule’. I had never came across this before and assumed that my server ...
Continue readingMy 5 Favorite Social Media Tools for 2009
Social Media By the time everyone reads this 2009 will be behind us and 2010 in our faces. So, I wanted to end it on a personal note sharing my top 5 favorite social media tools for 2009. These are also very useful tools that I feel everyone should at least give a try if you haven’t already. These are in no particular order. Feel free to share your favorite social media tools for 2009 as well in the comments. HootSuite I have a love/hate relationship ...
Continue readingA New Year’s Message for Bogged-Down Bloggers
Blogging This is Bloggingtips.com. It’s supposed to be about tips. Here’s one: don’t give up. Here’s another one: don’t get down on yourself or this process. It’s all upside from here. Now if that seems ridiculously simplistic, allow me to elaborate. I’m sitting here at one in the morning, an hour after Ryan Seacrest helped Dick Clark (God love him) lower that over-priced crystal ball toward one million drunk Times Square partiers ...
Continue readingSet Your Blogging Goals For 2010
Blogging You are probably sick of all the best of articles that have been written the last week around the web though I do think that this is a great time to look at your blog and think about what you would like to improve in 2010. I personally believe that the goals you set should motivate you to work your butt off, though they need to be achievable too. There’s no point setting a goal to reach 10,000 subscribers if you only have 100 just now as ...
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