- What The Revolution Theme Can Do For You| Comments Off
With Gobala’s hot contest to win a revolution magazine theme makeover in february there are already some serious contenders. When I read his post it came to me at the right time as I had just launched my local niche blog. I wasn’t happy with the initial template and was toying with Justin Tadlock’s cool [...]
- Video Blogs Where Are They?| 27 Comments
I spend a lot of time online every day. Between my freelance writing work and blogging I also read a lot of blogs online. A year ago I firmly believed that video blogging would become the next thing for bloggers on the net but now I have to say that perhaps I had it all [...]
- Bloghology, An Anthology of Bloggers by Mert Erkal| 2 Comments
Bloghology is a collection of bloggers, their profiles, photos, and links to their best posts. It is a PDF e-book which can be easily circulated throughout the blogosphere for personal branding and marketing of selected good quality bloggers.
Mert Erkal has been working on this for months now, and I’m glad he finally launched it. [...]
- Video That Helps Install WP Locally| 6 Comments
I wrote a post last year on how to install WordPress locally on your hard drive. The benefit of this is that you can tamper with your theme and plugins until you are happy to go live. It is a huge benefit to your readers, since they won’t be distracted by changing presentations.
To help those [...]
- A Typical Example of Why You Need Self Hosting| Comments Off
An acquaintance I met in a forum has recently asked the question on how to best move her blog from being a free WordPress blog to a self hosted one instead. The lady in question has been blogging on her free WordPress blog for 18 month before she realized that she needed to go self [...]
- Use Easy Graphic Converter to Manipulate Your Images| Comments Off
Since I started using custom fields on my new local niche blog I had to find a way to convert images in batch to make live a little easier when doing thumbnails. For those of you who don’t know what a thumbnail is, they are small icon like images (you basically shrink an image to [...]
- The Right And Wrong Ways to Link| 9 Comments
Linking is big business for all bloggers. After all we all want to have plenty of incoming links to rank better in search engines. And for those of you who think that linking to a competitor the right way is damaging for you, think again.
Not many bloggers actually have the knowledge on how to rank [...]
- MyBlogLog Adds an "About Me" Widget| Comments Off
One of the few services I still actively use on a day-to-day basis is MyBlogLog, although for a very long time they seemed to be on the decline even after being bought over by Yahoo.
No new services, not even a GUI or design upgrade, which kept me wondering what use is Yahoo’s bank [...]
- How I learned Coding| Comments Off
I can’t remember the amount of hours I spent trying to figure out ways to change code in my various WordPress and Blogger blogs. The biggest issue has always been not knowing how to right code from scratch which makes it very hard to learn.
Where to start and what to do became a problem for [...]
- Win a Revolution Magazine Theme Makeover In February| 37 Comments
This February, give your blog a complete make over and give New York Times a run for their money. We’re picking 2 lucky winners for a complete blog makeover with the Revolution Magazine theme worth $79.95. This theme will work best for sites related to music, lifestyle, or other mainstream topics, but logically it can [...]
- Argumentation Behaviour| Comments Off
Arguments are part of live. They can actually be very healthy for relationships as long as they stay in context. The problems with arguments start when people start to become abusive and hurt each other intentionally. So how do we deal with this kind of situation as a blogger?
Bloggers are normally quite behaved in regards [...]
- How To Get Blog Traffic from StumbleUpon| 37 Comments
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With all the hype about social bookmarking these days, it’s near impossible to separate the myths from the facts.
Myth: Use social bookmarking, it’s sooo easy to get tons of traffic
Fact: It’s not easy but done the right way, you can get a lot of traffic
StumbleUpon is a great way to get huge amounts [...]
- Easy Wordpress Marketplace Launched| 4 Comments
Want a place where you can get more advertisers or sell blog-related products?
We’ve just launched the Easy Wordpress Marketplace, a place where every blogger can find something he / she needs, and offer their stuff to the highest bidder.Sell / Buy Blogs and Websites – Do you have a blog you want to sell off? [...]
- Create Your Own Free Contact Form| 6 Comments
As a response to Stephanie’s comment regarding the biggest WordPress issues you had when you first started out blogging, I’m doing this post on adding contact forms to your WordPress blog. On my main blog I’m using Aweber to provide the form for my free ebook give away (Using auto responders). But on my self [...]