Another week of links for you to catch up on 
Blogging Overheads - How Much Does it Cost? - Posted today, Darren Rowse lets you know the overheads for being a blogger.
When is it time to switch to better hosting? - I’m posting a few hosing related articles this week so i thought it would be good to highlight a post Chris Stark wrote yesterday about when you upgrade your hosting.
Is your blog ready for monetization - Beginners guide - Mani discusses when you should start trying to earn cash from your blog.
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I always try my best to link to articles i am referring to. It makes sense to show the reader the article you are talking about.
Linking to another blog is great because :
- You give credit where credit is due
- You show your reader a good post that they would like to read (unless you like linking to bad posts - unlikely!)
- You generate a link back from the post in the form of a pingback (assuming they haven’t switched it off)
It’s this last point i want to expand on. I…
The last few years i have been using the free version of Web CEO to monitor the websites i run. It’s a fantastic piece of software and one which i can personally recommend through experience.
Web CEO can be quite slow loading sometimes (particularly on start up) and when you first start using it you will no find all the options you have to be daunting. If you perservere though you will soon realise how useful a tool it is in analysing your blog.
The main tools Web CEO offers are :
I was pleased to see a lot of bloggers take part in the first major competition in this blog and i’m even more pleased to announce the winners of this competition (details of the comp can be found here).
1st Place
Dan from Big Plans Big Crash had the highest blog page in the google results and will be getting a fantastic mascot from SOS Factory worth $300 and a domain name from 815Domains.
If you check the competition page you will see that Dan used a very ‘evil’ tactic and linked to his own blog using the…
Wordpress is a fantastic piece of software and is hugely popular. However, its popularity sometimes makes bloggers forget that there are other great blogging scripts and services out there.
Here is a quicklist of wordpress alternatives that you might be interested at looking into if you want something different :
Blog Software
Hosted Blogging
If there are any blog scripts i have left out please let me know and i’ll update the list.
Thanks,
Kevin
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I posed the question last month ‘When should you display your feedburner rss to your readers?‘. Before you can even think about displaying the number of subscribers on your blog you need to actually encourage readers to subscribe to it.
One of the most important ways to do this is to display your rss feed details in a prominent position on your blog. I have the BloggingTips RSS Feed displayed at the top right hand side of every page on the blog. I’m sure that this is a factor in the number…
