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101 Great Blogs You Should Be Subscribing To
Blogging In order to stay up to date, I subscribe to a lot of great blogs via my newsreader. I categorise blogs into different sections to help me find the information I want quickly (e.g. blogging, marketing, domain names etc). As a blogger, I think it is very important to stay up to date with the latest news and discussions with your blogs topic and with blogging and web development in general. This is particularly true for those that are still ...
Continue readingThe easy way to design an eBook cover
Software & Programs Daniel John contacted me a few days ago to ask how I designed the stack of eBooks which you see on the right column of Blogging Tips. I thought that this was something that you would all want to know so I thought I would answer the question in a blog post It was only a few months ago that I launched my first eBook. I was kind of late to the party in many respects so before I could even start to write the first book, I had to do a lot of ...
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 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 readingDoes design matter in an ebook?
Writing Yesterday I announced the release of Blogging Tips 2nd ebook ‘Choosing A Web Host : Helping You Choose The Right Host For Your Blog‘. I thought I would share some of my thoughts on writing the book and give you a little inside look at one of the issues which was holding me back from releasing the book earlier. Writing the book I really enjoyed writing this latest ebook. The last ebook I released was the first one I had ever published ...
Continue readingFree E-Book: Choosing A Web Host
Domain Names & Hosting Following on from the success of Blogging Tips first e-book, I am proud to announce the release of the latest addition to our book area; ‘Choosing A Web Host : Helping You Choose The Right Host For Your Blog‘. This 48 page e-book spans 6 chapters and is available all our blogging newsletter subscribers. Helping You Choose The Right Host For Your Blog The book was written specifically for bloggers who have never hosted their own blog ...
Continue readingCheck Your Email Spam Folder Regularly
Productivity In many peoples eyes, Google has taken on the mantle of being the biggest, baddest and most evil internet company online today because of how much control, influence and power it has (a title previously owned by Microsoft). However, there is no denying how useful some of their applications are (e.g. Google Maps). For me, their best application is Gmail. I was lucky enough to get a beta invite to try out Gmail many years ago. The thought of ...
Continue readingWinner of 6 Months Hosting Package at Site Valley
Competitions Last Monday I announced a competition to win 6 months of blog hosting at Site Valley. To win, all you had to do was follow @SiteValley on Twitter, follow @BloggingTipsCom on Twitter and tweet a specific message. Although many people retweeted the message they were supposed to, they forgot to follow Site Valley and Blogging Tips on Twitter. One of the few people who did was Nicola Erlich, who was chosen by Site Valley staff as the winner. Alex: ...
Continue readingLink To Your Friends, Link To Your Enemies
Promote your blog Alex Fraiser and Seth Waite from Blogussion (one of the best blogging related blogs launched within the last year) recently collated all of their best blog posts into a guide entitled ‘From Planning To Earning‘. The guide covers everything from designing your blog to making money from it. I encourage you all to check it out. Through this guide I came across an article Alex wrote in May entitled ‘5 More Experimental Writing ...
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