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Preview of New BloggingTips Themes – Feedback Wanted
WordPress Themes It’s been a long time we have released any WordPress themes through BloggingTips so I pleased to announce that I have two themes in development for you all. One theme will be a premium theme and will probably be released for a reasonable price though the second one will be free for all Newsletter subscribers. Both themes are being designed by our friends at Blog Design Studio. They should hopefully be ready for release within the next week ...
Continue readingGrab the Bull by the Horns
Blogging BloggingTips has been online for more than 2 and a half years now. Running a community like this has put me in a unique position to see how many bloggers have developed since starting their first blog. I’m happy to say that many are now running successful blogs which bring them in a nice profit every month. However, too many have struggled to make their blog a success and even more have just stopped blogging altogether. I think that there ...
Continue readingDo the Hard Work for your Readers
Blogging It’s sometimes difficult to put your finger on what exactly makes some blogs successful. There are successful blogs with bad designs, many which only update every other week and some which make good money in spite of poor marketing techniques. Though most popular blogs share one common theme; They do the hard work for their readers. By doing the hard work your readers you can present them with quality content on a regular basis. The web is ...
Continue readingTwo New Utilities added to Google Webmaster Tools
Search Engine Optimisation At the start of the week Google added 2 new utilities to Webmaster Tools. The two new tools they have added are Fetch as Googlebot and Malware Details. These are both currently under their Labs Banner. Malware Details This new feature will help you see if any malicious code is present on your site. It will highlight any pages which have malware code on it and help you find what is causing it by showing you parts of the page where it is present. ...
Continue readingInterview with Murrary Newlands
Interviews Marketing is a very important part of running a blog, it can be the difference between a successful blog that makes a lot of money and a hidden gem that makes little to none. Today I am talking to Murray Newlands, a British marketer who gave up the world of Law to make a living online. As is usual in BloggingTips interviews, I like to ask interviewees to first introduce themselves and let readers who don’t know you find out a little about you ...
Continue readingClaim Your Facebook Fan Page Username
Social Networking 2 months ago I showed you all how to create a Facebook fan page for your blog and how to add a newsletter to your fan page. At the time I was unaware of you can claim your username for your fan page. Syed Balkhi from WPBeginner brought this to my attention today. All you need to do is go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ and check the availability of your desired username for your blog page. You can choose one username for each fan page you ...
Continue readingDoes the new FTC Rule affect you?
Blogging News It’s been a few days since the FTC announced it’s new rule in the USA regarding endorsements. The rule states that advertisers, bloggers and celebrities must disclose any payments or free gifts they are getting for reviewing a product, with a maximum fine of $11,000 being quoted. I’ve seen a few different reactions to this decision this week but the general consensus seems to be that most bloggers think this is a good move. ...
Continue readingHow long should a blog post be?
Blogging I’ve been hanging out at the ProBlogger.com forums over the last week. One topic which keeps springing up in the writing content section is post length, something which most new bloggers always seem unsure about. Undoubtedly, new bloggers compare their post length to blogs they read regularly (usually blogs within the same niche). Which encourages these bloggers to emulate successful blogs rather than doing their own thing. This ...
Continue readingHow plugins can hurt your search engine rankings
Search Engine Optimisation I read an article from Mihaela Lica today on SitePoint entitled ‘Bad Nested Code Could Hurt Your SE Rankings‘. In the article she talks about how badly or improperly nested code can hurt your search engines and notes that plugins are one of the biggest causes of this. One of the examples she uses is the use of the popular What Would Seth Godin Do WordPress plugin. She notes: If you set the plugin to add this welcome message before ...
Continue readingProBlogger Community Launched
Blogging News Since acquiring the ProBlogger.com domain in 2007, Darren Rowse has hinted at developing the .com area of his brand a few times. Recently he announced that the domain would be used as the home of a forthcoming ProBlogger community. I am happy to announce that the new ProBlogger Discussion Forum is now live. The forum costs $1.95 a month (which is much less than I thought it would cost). Since I signed up to receive updates about the site, I was ...
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