Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'
The Value of a Network
Published September 19th, 2007 in Blogging - 21 Comments
Every successful blogger is part of a network of other bloggers. The community aspect is extremely important for a number of reasons that we’ll look at below. Building a strong network is not difficult, but it does require you to be proactive. What can a network do for me? First of all I should clarify [...]
Being a Proactive Blogger
Published September 6th, 2007 in Blogging - 20 Comments
With millions of blogs in the blogosphere, and more being added everyday, all of us face stiff competition for the attention of our readers. With so many choices available for readers it’s easy for them to overlook your blog (or anyone else’s for that matter). One of the best characteristics any blogger can have is [...]
Creating a More Valuable Blog for Your Readers
Published August 20th, 2007 in Blogging - 30 Comments
Most of us as bloggers and website owners devote so much of our focus on increasing the value of our visitors to us that we neglect to focus on our value to the readers. If we dedicate our efforts to creating more valuable and useful content for our readers, the natural progression is that readers [...]
Removing the NoFollow Tags
Published August 2nd, 2007 in Blogging - 16 Comments
Update: This post is no longer accurate. Links in comments are now nofollow. The DoFollow plugin is now installed and active on this blog, which means comments no longer include the NoFollow tag in links! If you’re not familiar with NoFollow tags, they are a way of preventing search engines from following and indexing links. [...]
5 Ways to Get Noticed by A-List Bloggers
Published July 31st, 2007 in Blogging - 30 Comments
Jonathan Phillips wrote a post yesterday, Getting A-Listers to Notice Your Blog vs. Social Networking. In the article Jon asks his readers which source they would prefer to send them traffic. He mentions that his experience has shown that visitors who are referred from other blogs are more likely to stay on the site longer [...]
160+ RSS Tools, Tips, Resources and More
Published July 30th, 2007 in Blogging, Design - 10 Comments
Articles Introduction to RSS What is RSS? RSS Explained RSS Specifications RSS 2.0 Specification History of RSS 35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today Making Headlines with RSS The Evolution of RSS 8 Easy Ways to Monetize Your RSS Feed RSS – Taking it to the People Creating an RSS Feed – Articles/Tutorials RSS Tutorial [...]
Google’s Supplemental Index: Get Out and Stay Out
Published July 25th, 2007 in Blogging, Design, SEO - 8 Comments
Google is by far the most frequently used search engine, so naturally ranking well in Google is important. However, ranking well and maximizing your traffic requires getting and keeping your pages out of the supplemental index. What is Google’s Supplemental Index? Google’s goal as a search engine is to provide the user (searcher) with the [...]
Full Posts or Excerpts?
Published July 23rd, 2007 in Blogging - 9 Comments
If you use an RSS reader you’ll notice two different methods bloggers use for displaying their RSS feeds. Some bloggers choose to show readers the full post directly in the RSS reader, while others choose to only use short excepts that contain a link to the blog post on their site. Each method has its [...]
The PostPost Plugin
Published July 19th, 2007 in Blogging, Reviews - 5 Comments
I recently came across a very useful WordPress plugin, PostPost. It’s not one that you’ll see on most people’s list of top plugins, including my own (I hadn’t come across PostPost at the time of writing that article, or it would have been on the list). PostPost gives you the ability to include content in [...]
Customize Your Own WordPress Theme
Published July 18th, 2007 in Blogging, Design - 95 Comments
An increasing number of businesses and website owners are using blogs as a means of communication with their customers and website visitors. If your business already has a website it is possible to have a blog that matches the look and feel of your existing website without doing a complete re-design and without paying thousands [...]
