Should you play jokes on your readers?
Around The Blogosphere It’s April 2nd so I’m sure most of you are suffering from post April Fools hangovers!! One of the biggest jokes played on internet sites this year was the ‘RickRoll’. The RickRoll is a joke where the website starts a script which plays Rick Astley’s cheesy 1987 classic ‘Never Gonna Give You Up‘ over and over again. The video jumps around a bit so you can’t close it and the visitor is left with over a dozen windows to close. If this happened to you then you got RickRolled! I read about the RickRoll a few days ago (it even made the newspapers in ...
Continue readingTop 5 things I shouldn’t have done while blogging
Blogging I thought I’d do an analysis of what I did to make my blog popular and what I did to piss off my readers the last six months. As a matter of fact, things I did to get popular was pretty much anyones guess and is not worth the mention here, what really matters, or what would give you some value, is to let know you of things that I shouldn’t have done on my blog. Probably, you can learn ...
Continue readingNew Alltop Blog “Dashboard”
Blogging News, Promote your blog There is another resource both for finding what’s happening in the blogosphere and for potentially seeking out incoming links. Web guru Guy Kawasaki recently launched Alltop, with the slogan, “We’ve got all the top stories covered, all the time.” Frankly, when I first saw the site I didn’t get its brilliance in its simplicity. I shrugged it off as yet another ...
Continue readingThe Blogging Vacation
Blogging There are times where you want to relax from your frantic blogging schedule and believe me, this is really needed to recuperate from the blogging stress that you could get from blogging excessively. One of the places where I often get energy from blogging again is the beach. The sound of the waves and the sight of the sand often gets me very relaxed and makes me think about the different topics ...
Continue readingThe Purpose and Philosophy of Your Writing
Writing It is common practice for a company to have a vision and a mission statement for their business. Doing this inspires the organization to work together towards a noble cause. This aspiration gives the corporation a sense of purpose and consequently, develop a philosphy that will guide them towards success. Adopting this custom for your blog will likewise give your site proper perspective and ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – April 1st 2008
Links Some April fools madness from your favourite bloggers Daily Blog Tips Has Been Acquired for $168,000 – Daily Blog Tips has been sold…or has it!! John Chow Cola, The Official Blogger Drink – The soft drink all thirsty bloggers buy! Using Twitter for your blog – Jason is still trying to convince me to use Twitter. The Internet Marketing List: 59 Things You Should Be Doing ...
Continue readingRevResponse.com – Profit by giving your readers free resources
Reviews BloggingTips is over a year old now and although I have spoke about adding paid reviews to the blog many times in the past, todays review of RevResponse is the first paid review I have wrote on this blog (I’m sure they’re honoured!). Enjoy the review In a Nutshell, What is RevResponse? RevResponse is the affiliate site which promotes TradePub, a website which offers thousands of free ...
Continue readingHow to Create Dynamic Web Content for Your Blog in Five Easy Steps!
Writing By Keeping Your Headlines and Subject Headers Extremely Simple and Concise, You Will Generate Dynamic Web Content for Every Visitor to Your Site KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID! Your website or blog content area should be designed with simplicity in mind at all times. The navigation bar should be so easy to use that a blind person should have no problem with getting around your web pages with ease. Your ...
Continue readingPaying for Diggs and Stumbles
Promote your blog Every blogger wants his or her posts to catch fire on Digg or StumbleUpon (or the social site of their choice), but would you ever pay for Diggs and Stumbles? It’s not a new phenomenon. In fact, many social sites try to combat paid submissions, but there are still many sites out there like Subvert and Profit where advertisers can pay people to Digg, Stumble, etc. blog posts or web pages ...
Continue readingTaking a look at Bloggers new features
Blogger Since Blogger introduced “In Draft” last year, we have seen a steady trickle of new features emerge in beta format, ready for testing before they are released for general use. Over the past few weeks, though, we have seen some particularly useful features which will soon be integrated into the main Blogger interface. Lets take a look at what Blogger users can expect to be using in the ...
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