Posted in Blogging, SpeedLinking on Aug 10th, 2007
Resizr - Free online photo resizing, cropping and editing. Perfect for bloggers.
Shiny Text - Learn how to make things shiny in Photoshop!
Having Ads, A Turn Off? - Enkay explains why readers hate ads.
Blogging Frequency - Matt explains how blogging frequency and consistancy doubles traffic.
Lastminute Auction - eBay auctions ending in an hour or less for [...]
Posted in Blogging, Competition on Aug 8th, 2007
I decided to make a competition that did not have an elaborate method of entry, thanks to Kumiko. To enter this competition all you have to do is make make a post telling your readers about this competition and in that post make a guess as to how many individual linkbacks this post will receive [...]
Posted in Blogging on Aug 7th, 2007
This is basically a want ad for a partner in blogging. This site deserves to be posted to a lot more than I do. So I figured I can add an author or two to make this blog better. But it can’t be just anybody, here are the terms:
Must be a competent blogger with a [...]
Do you like blogging? Do you like people from North Wales? Then I have to show you a site that you will absolutely adore, it’s called The Gospel According to Rhys. This self-proclaimed geek is operated a pretty addicting blog about blogging. The crazy part of this blog is it’s age. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Increase Traffic, Social Bookmarks on Aug 6th, 2007
Having been blogging for almost a year I am always looking for more readers. So naturally I look to take advantage of social bookmarking services. There are plenty of these services - Digg, Reddit, Magnolia, Bumpzee and I could go on forever. The best of these services, in my experience, is StumbleUpon. What I do [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ideas, Increase Traffic on Aug 4th, 2007
A great way to reward your readers is to randomly give away free stuff. It really doesn’t matter what you give away, as long as it’s completly free. Sounds easy enough, right? Just give away things for no reason, as often as you can. Take Zac Johnson for instance - he gives away the stuff [...]
Posted in Blogging, Definitions on Aug 3rd, 2007
Blog Definitions: Common Terms of the Blogosphere
BLOGGING - THE WHAT
These are probably the simplest terms to understand. To garner a full grasp of the terms you should start at the beginning.
Bloggeries: The term used to refer to the posts within a blog. You write bloggeries and post them on your blog. Also commonly called posts [...]
Posted in Blogging, Google, Ideas, PageRank on Aug 2nd, 2007
As the entire web holds their breath as to when Google will be archiving the net and handing out PageRank I decided I would put up a post about it. There are many ideas to increase your PageRank, I will explain them and also the pros and cons of completing each method:
Getting Backlinks
If you [...]
Posted in Blogging, Make Money Online, Ramblings on Aug 1st, 2007
Thinking of monetizing your new site? Think again!
If you are a new blogger or just developing new blogs the choice of monetization is always an important one. Many people go ahead an put up advertising like Adsense, AdBrite, AuctionAds as soon as they launch their blogs. Let me just say - hold your horses! [...]
For once, not only Internet Explorer users can dictate the most popular sites on the net. That is because Alexa has developed a new program which lets the rest of us Firefox users get in on the ranking action. This plugin, named Sparky is going to kick start the blogging community. The point is not [...]
Thinking about baseball and watching a bunch of the games has made me want to post about the similarities between blogging and baseball. Now I know many of you probably are not New York fans, but it just an example. Just imagine I am talking about your favorite baseball team.
So Many People
A typical Yankees game [...]
I started thinking about successful bloggers and how much money they make. I am able to get this information thanks to Paula Mooney. While reading the list of bloggers salary there are many high paid people in the business but I seemed to focus on one, John Chow. According to Paula, John Chow made $10,559.40 [...]
