As regular Blogging Tips commentators know, i removed the no follow link from Blogging Tips 2 months ago. This means that page rank will be given to the blogs and websites of those who post a comment.

As i stated before, i’m baffled why so many bloggers made a fuss about this as any page rank benefit from commentating will be pretty low and bloggers should be trying to raise their page rank via advertising and writing good posts. However, i was more than happy to remove the ‘no follow’ link cos…

I have been using NetVibes to stay updated with the blogs i read since i reviewed the service in April 2007. Up until now i have been very happy with the site however in the last week or so i’ve had problems logging onto the site and feeds have taken a while to update on my main page.

Have any readers who use NetVibes had a problem with this recently? Below is an pic of showing you what i see when it doesn’t load :

The Alternatives

I know that Bloglines is popular however i’ve…

A brand new stats tracker was launched yesterday by Patrick Altoft. The site is called BlogStorm and the service allows you to track the number of blogs which link to you using link data from Yahoo.

To be able to retrieve the data you need to get an API key from Yahoo and then add the key to the following file :


<?php

$url=$_GET["url"];
/*
1. Replace the xxxxxxxxx below with your Yahoo API Key, available at:
https://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/index.php

2. Upload the script to your server.

3. Rename the file as a php file such as script.php rather than a…

Time management is an important part of being a blogger. There are only so many hours in the day and sometimes other aspects of your life can eat into the time you set aside for blogging - heck, even checking the emails to your blog can take up a lot of your blogging time!

If you are lucky enough to own a laptop then you are also lucky enough to be able to blog when you don’t have access to the internet. As time goes on internet access is becoming easier…

In the last two days i have seen the number of subscriber’s to BloggingTips drop from around 300 to 200. Day to day, the number of subscribers is gonna go up and down but i was a bit concerned with a drop of that amount.

The confusing thing is that traffic has increased a lot in the last week. I check my stats semi regularly anyways but after seeing this drop i compared webalizer with google analytics and awstats. Traffic from google is still extremely low (BT is still very new)…

Okay, so we talked about Mistakes in blogging, and How to develop stickyness to your blog.I thought we needed to cover some basics now - let’s see.

How about this topic - How to attract first time visitors and convert them to readers?

Say you are going to launch a new blog. Or you are going for a revamp edition of your existing blog. What are the things that will get you instant attention, when you show it off to the world? What will ensure you that your first time visitors (guests)…