A common graphic I see on a new bloggers sidebar is the PageRank button, a simple graphic which displays the pagerank of the blog. I’ve even noticed this on blogs who have a pagerank of 0!
Here are two examples of these buttons :


I don’t think theres any need to display your pagerank on your blog sidebar. The reason is simple, there are only two people who care about your blogs pagerank, you and your blog sponsors. Your readers do not care if your blog has a pagerank of 0 or…
Some will say links are the ultimate currency, others (like me) will say it’s about comments and conversations, but there is another type of blogger who is more into traffic and stats. So let’s try to help those a little.
Most of you, who read and visit Blogging Tips on a regular basis, probably already know a lot about social networking and community sites, and how to get traffic from StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg and others.
Let’s see what else you, incredible writers, can do to get more traffic to your blog.
Because every…
If you recently upgraded to wordpress 2.2+ from earlier versions you may have found your posts have been all messed up with lots of Â, †and ™ characters dotted everywhere. This happened to Blogging Tips posts, I quickly removed them from all of the affected posts but I didn’t spend any time looking into what caused this to happen.
Last week I helped out Elina from My Lil Venture by upgrading her blog to wordpress 2.2.1. Elina emailed be back telling me that all of her posts were now filled with…
I posted a few months ago about the trouble I had with PayPerPost. For whatever reason, I was not getting any emails from them so I was unable to verify my account. I don’t know if this was caused by my ISP in New Zealand but now that I’m back in the UK everything seems fine.
To make things sweeter I got an email today from PayPerPost entitled ‘Try PayPerPost on us!’.
Dear Kevin,
I have noticed that you created a PayPerPost Advertiser account but never deposited any funds to create an Opportunity…
A week or so ago I posted about my experience with paid reviews. In the post I talked about how much traffic John Chow sent me when I got Blogging Tips reviewed there, I called this traffic jump ‘The John Chow Effect’. I think John liked the term as he posted about it a few days later detailing how websites who have been reviewed on John Chow have received similar traffic jumps.
Whilst checking some back links on Technorati a few days ago I came across this page. This website had…