In the last week i have seen e-books released from two blogs i subscribe to. Namely, John Chow and Yaro Starak. Both of these e-books are free to download and both of them talk about making money through blogs.

John Chow E-Book

John’s e-book contains affiliate links to the ad networks he recommends and a lot of references to his blog however this doesn’t personally bother me as the download is free and contains a lot of great tips. If you read his blog a lot you may find that quite a lot…

One of the most common things i see in blogs is a change of direction of the content in the blog. This is especially true in personal blogs but it also happens in mainstream blogs as well.

Clearly a blog about basketball which has the word basketball in the domain name will struggle to find a presence if it all of a sudden turns into a blog about football. However, other non specific blogs might find themselves drifting towards a different topics and to them i say ‘Don’t fight it -…

It is already blogged many times that blogger must backup his blog files and databases. So I’m not going to go in there, instead I’m going to blog about how to backup your files and documents on your PC. I’m sure it is as critical to you as backing up your blog files.

For this purpose I’m introducing you to Mozy for those who haven’t heard about it - they are offering online storage as backup media. Mozy gives free 2GB of online storage for your backups with no strings attached! If…

Not all themes are the same though its fair to say that the majority of wordpress blogs can be divided into 4 main areas. The header, the sidebar, the footer and the main content area (eg the post, index or page areas). The main content area is the part which is different on every page of the blog. The information in the header, sidebar(s) and footer remains the same on every page of the blog. This is true for the majority of wordpress blogs.

It doesn’t have to be this way…

Comments are a very important aspect of blogging. The ability to contribute to articles allows readers to participate in the topic in question. The number of comments in blog posts is usually a pretty good indication of how popular the blog is.

How to encourage readers to comment?

When your blog is still new you may struggle to get some or even any comments to your posts. If you continue to update your blog with good posts though the comments will come in time however there are a number of methods you…