Monthly Archives: February 2010
Selecting The Right Keywords
Promote your blog Everyone who is involved with blogs will understand why keywords are important but many people don’t understand why they need to be selective about the keywords they use and how choosing these carefully can affect the kind of traffic that you get to your website or blog. There are many different opinions about where you should get your keywords from but personally I’m okay with using anything that will give me an idea of how many ...
Continue readingMatt Mullenweg’s Blog Makes You Smile
Blogging, Reader Blog Critique, WordPress WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s primary blog has many instances which will make you smile. With my below par internet connection, it takes a bit of time for Matt’s blog to load (Matt himself says the site’s spring design is for the high-bandwidth and the open-minded) but the visit is worth it. This post enumerates some interesting instances (with snapshots taken on 13 February 2010) on Matt’s PR 8 blog. The header ...
Continue readingDiving Deep into the Templates Box
Design & Coding, Reviews For most people, designing a custom design template can be more trouble than what it’s worth. It takes so much time to put together a decent-looking website and that’s why it’s so much easier if you can have something ready for you out of the box. At the same time, you also recognize that there is no such thing as one size fits all. You want some variety. To give you more variety right out of the box, you may want to divert ...
Continue readingCligs – Short URLs with Analytics plus Social Media Monitoring
Social Media Cligs provides in-depth monitoring and tracking for your short URLs. They were recently acquired by Mister Wong – a well-known social bookmarking tool. A free account is needed if you’d like to keep your statistics private. They offer a bookmarklet that you can add to your bookmarks toolbar for easy access, as well as a few other tools. In their own words, Cligs equals “short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring and ...
Continue readingTop Five Tips to be Successful
Writing I’ve read several books in my time on being successful and personal development. There are a few things that are repeated in most of them. They must be important. I want to share with you the ones that stand out to me the most. These principles can be applied to any area of your life that you want to be successful. If you want to build a successful blog or online business, publish fiction, get more freelance clients, be a professional ...
Continue readingFilter out the Tweets that Matter Most to You with Filttr
Social Media Filttr is yet another Twitter timeline cleaning tool that will filter out the junk and only display what interests you. If you are following a large amount of people, this can really save you a lot of time and unneeded frustration. Though Filttr has been around for about a year, it is definitely more useful now than when it first came out – since Twitter spam continues to skyrocket at unbelievable speeds. Let’s take a look at how ...
Continue reading5 Lesser-Known Sources for Free, Legal Content
Blogging The desire for free content is an understandable one. Sometimes bloggers don’t want to or don’t have the time to hammer out a post or need images to go along with one already written. Though most bloggers are aware of Creative Commons Licenses and know they can search for CC images on Flickr. Others are well aware of the StockXchng as a good free stock photo library as well as sites like Articlesbase for free posts for your site. But ...
Continue readingHow To Get Your Blogging Mojo Back
Blogging Has blogging been feeling a bit blah lately? Have you lost the excitement that kept your blog at the forefront of your mind every day? When you’ve been blogging for a while, it’s normal to go through a slump but you don’t want to lose your readers might you recover. Here are some tips for getting your mojo back and keeping that blog going. Get some help One of the best ways to keep your blog going while you regain your focus is ...
Continue readingStaying Motivated
Writing You’ve started off with a bang, your sizzle has turned to fizzle–what do you do? You get motivated! Most people start a new project on cloud nine and spend as much time as possible working on the new project, but soon the new-ness and glory begin to fade causing you to lose hope perhaps–it’s just not as fun or as appealing as it once was. It doesn’t mean you’ve lost your passion–it just means you need to ...
Continue readingColorful Premium Themes from Wobzy
Reviews, WordPress Themes If you want to stand out from the crowd, you’ll want your WordPress blog to feature an eye-catching and visually-appealing theme. There are many different templates out there on the Internet, but some of the most attractive are those offered by Wobzy.com. There is no shortage of style here. Browsing through the Library Unlike some other sites that may only feature one or two premium themes, Wobzy has quite the large collection of premium ...
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