I am pleased to announce the launch of the Blogging Tips Newsletter. A Newsletter is something I have been thinking of starting for a while so I’m glad I finally got round to starting it.

What will the Newsletter cover?

You might be asking why you should subscribe to the newsletter if you are already subscribed to the RSS feed. This is a question I also asked myself when I first considered the newsletter as I didn’t want to exclude regular RSS subscribers however, at the same time, I wanted to offer…

Last week, Blogger was branded the number one host for malware across the internet in a report by security company, Sophos. Then on Friday, Blogger began a major initiative to identify and lock down potential spam blogs hosted on its’ servers in which many innocent blogs were caught in the crossfire.

The result? A damaging blow to Blogger’s reputation as a reliable blog host, and many frustrated users moving their blogs over to Wordpress.

But what’s the real story behind these damning headlines? Is Blogger really such a bad host?

Why is Blogger the…

Just a quick post to let you all know why I haven’t been posting much the last few days. I’m currently on a much needed holiday in Bulgaria and will be here for another 12 days or so. My plan was to keep posting as much as I usually do however I don”t have internet access in my room so it’s a bit more hassle to keep on top of things.

There is wifi in the room however the signal is very low and to use it you need to sign…

I was wondering last night why there hadn’t been any comments about the launch of our new design or the release of the evolution theme, particularly as traffic has been high the last few days. I was busy tweaking the design yesterday so I didn’t have too much time to look into why but thankfully Mani from Daily SEO Blog to tell me that he couldn’t leave a comment and I found the problem right away.

Turns out the math comment spam protection plugin was still activated but the field had been removed from…

I am proud to announce that BloggingTips has a new blog design

From this :

To this :

Design Info

Our previous design was based on Brian Gardner’s Revolution Theme. I liked the design however I thought it was about time the site got a new design to help distinguish it from the rest of the pack.

Our new theme was designed by Design Saurus and incorporates our original logo from David Airey. The theme features :

• Less clutter in the sidebar
• Gravatar support
• Author automatically highlighted in comment area (for many authors)
• Multi tab which shows latest…