New Design At Blogging Tips
It's just over a year since Blogging Tips last got a redesign . Whilst I did like the previous theme, I thought it was time to move the site forward with a fresh look. The new theme has the familar Blogging Tips black, red and white color scheme however it is a much tider looking design. So for those of you reading this via RSS, here is a comparison of the old theme and the new : Old Design * If any of you are fans of the old them theme then please drop by and visit Blog Themes Club where you can purchase the..
Blogging Tips (4 hours ago)
Best Method To Post Content To WordPress
We conducted a small poll recently, where we asked WordPress users the method they use to post content to their blogs . The poll is now closed and here are the results of the poll. And the winner and best way to post content to your blog is the WordPress Dashboard Write Panel, coming in a distant 2nd is desktop applications like Windows Live Writer. So why do people prefer using the write panel? There could be several reasons for this, the most important one I can think of is that, when writing posts using th..
Weblog Tools Collection (5 hours ago)
BBPress 1.0 Final Released
The final 1.0 release of bbPress, the popular forum script and kid brother of the world famous blogging solution, WordPress, is now available. bbPress 1.0 alpha started around August of last year, and after several release candidates they have finally released bbPress 1.0 Final . The latest release is now available for download on the bbPress site. The current version is geared towards WordPress users offering various usability improvements which should be familiar to adopters who are used to WordPress. A ..
Blogging Tips (7 hours ago)
Video: How to Build a High Traffic Blog
Over the last WordCamp San Francisco Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek (name of both his book and blog), gave a presentation on “how to build a high traffic blog without killing yourself.” It lasts 50 minutes, and he covers a wide range of topics, from posting frequency to blogging tools and community building. The cool thing is that most of the stuff is coming from the tests that Tim run over the years. Worth watching. Partner: BecomeABlogger.com , the best online course for aspiring blo..
Daily Blog Tips (8 hours ago)
bbPress 1.0 Bechet Released
bbPress 1.0 final, finally released : For those of us that are also fans and users of bbPress, bbPress version 1.0 is finally released. Many improvements over the 0.9 versions include cookie integration with WordPress, various fixes, JQuery integration, a complete XML-RPC API, new admin interface, new icons, improved spam management and much more. Backup files and database and disable all plugins prior to upgrade but our test upgrade went amazingly well and everything continued to work post upgrade. Post from..
Weblog Tools Collection (9 hours ago)
WordPress Plugin Releases for 07/03
New Plugins External Files External Files provides a shortcode [external] that wraps around a file path or url. The contents of the file/url are imported and outputted in an xhtml-friendly way. What's more, the plugin auto-guesses the syntax of the file (by looking at the extension of the path or the content-type of the url). RSS Shortcode Allows you to embed an RSS feed in your blog post by using WordPress shortcodes. BuddyPress Contents BuddyPress content aggregation and organization. Real-Time Find and Rep..
Weblog Tools Collection (9 hours ago)
Three Tips for Creating Your Own Independence Day
July 4 is Independence Day here in the States, which, for most of us, entails the risk of losing: your fingers to cheap fireworks; your waistline to hot dogs; your liver. All of which, as a red-blooded American, I support wholeheartedly. But if you’re spending today celebrating the country’s independence, how about putting some attention on your own personal independence? It might be independence from a day job, or financial stress, or even a mindset that’s keeping you from making things happen. Here are a fe..
Copyblogger (12 hours ago)
Feedly – Blog Reading in Style!
If you read a number of blogs, perhaps even too many blogs, then Feedly could be the best RSS blog reader for you. Feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page. The only downside is that Feedly is built upon Google Reader and Firefox – you need both to play. Feedly displays your Google Reader feeds in a magazine-like format, allowing you to browse over multiple categories, preview post pictures and all your read items are synchronized back to Google Reader. However, if you ..
Blogging Tips (12 hours ago)
MyAds: Promote Your Blog, Product or Service on MySpace
At the bottom of this post is a coupon code to give you a $50 credit at MyAds - this is not an affiliate promotion, just a take it or leave it offer from MyAds. Over the last week or so I've had the opportunity to see inside the MyAds from MySpace. MyAds have been an advertiser here on ProBlogger for a month or two now ( consider that a disclaimer ) so I wanted to see for myself how it worked. What I found was a very easy to use and pretty affordable way to advertise a product, service or even your blog. In s..
ProBlogger Blog Tips (12 hours ago)
Aggregate Your Social Profiles With Swimwire
Swimwire is yet another social aggregator that allows you to import various social networks into your account such as Twitter and YouTube. If you can get over the distracting rotating header (that seems to be on every page) you can then either sign up for free or sign in via Facebook connect. From there you’ll want to edit your profile, details, image, privacy and add all of your supported sites. There are 46 sites that you can import into your Swimwire account. You will need to enter your full profile URLs. ..
Blogging Tips (13 hours ago)
How to Blog Like a Beginner …
A few words I've said before that I want to share on my birthday … Something blogging has taught me a lot about — not just the beauty of paying attention to one thing at a time — but the fulfillment of offering other people a chance to talk. Half the show is in the comments. Thank you HART for saying that! That was one of the first things we discovered here. When I first started blogging, I often tried to do too much. I'd write a post that carried the load of too many thoughts at one time. T..
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog (13 hours ago)
How to create a simple Gadget for Blogger with the new API (Part 1)
Last week, I explained Blogger's new API for Gadgets which enables us to draw upon Blogger feeds in order to create useful and interactive gadgets. In this post, I'll explain how to create a very simple Gadget which draws upon Blogger feeds to create a simple “subscription” gadget which you can install in your Blogger blog. Unlike regular “widget installers”, anyone who installs this gadget in their blog will not need to input their blog's URL in order to retrieve the blog feeds: inste..
Blogging Tips (14 hours ago)
The Internet: As Envisioned 40 Years Ago
An early vision of ecommerce, 1969: Can't see video? What will the next 40 years bring? You may also like these similar posts: Crazy World of Ecommerce Videos for your Viewing Pleasure The Crazy, Messed Up World of Ecommerce Using Social Media to Sell the Bling - Get Elastic #40 Youtube Experimenting With Video Ecommerce Hot Ecommerce Trend: Embedded Video in Email
Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog (16 hours ago)
Friday Focus 07/03/09: Chaotic & Whimsical
Design usually means arranging things in an orderly, meaningful manner, but this week we're throwing that out of the window and going for chaotic and whimsical sites. Happy 4th of July weekend, everyone, and welcome to this week's Friday Focus! Designs of the Week The left-aligned layout works well here. I love that in the inner pages, the background changes, but remains “chaotic”. I'm not sure what this design style is called, but it always catches my eye. Another left-aligned design with a touch..
Devlounge - Homepage Feed (17 hours ago)
Friendfeed's Real-time Search
Now that ex-Google employees start-up Friendfeed has real-time search, you can feed their engine with a keyword like google and embed it elsewhere, like below (I could refine this search by restricting it to results which have X comments only, or have Likes, or which are only from my contacts at Friendfeed, and so on): PS: If you want to subscribe to my links at Friendfeed, it's there . [Hat tip to Websonic !] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Friendfeed's Real-time Search | Comments ] [Advertisement] Find the ri..
Google Blogoscoped (17 hours ago)
Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Talk about the language of possibility! Then, now, still. ~~~ Happy 4th July to all my readers in the U.S. Post from: Confident Writing No related posts.
Confident Writing (19 hours ago)
Whiteboard Friday - Crawling & Indexing
Posted by great scott! Crawling and Indexing. Without them you can't rank. If you can't rank, you can't get search traffic. If you can't get search traffic, your online marketing efforts are going to suffer; and in our industry that is a colossal FAIL. This seems like simple stuff we all take for granted, but it's critically important to understand what you must do--and avoid--to make sure your site is regularly crawled and then maintained in the primary index of each of the major engines. Even if you think y..
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog (20 hours ago)
How Do You Post Content To Your Blog?
WordPress provides users with various ways to post content to their blogs, the best part is that it does not limit users to write their views. However we all use different methods to post content to our blog and it would be interesting to know which is the most used way to post content to a WordPress blog. Here is a short poll, please choose the method you use frequently to post content to your blog, you can select more than one options, also don’t forget to tell us why you use a certain method to post conten..
Weblog Tools Collection (1 day ago)
Emailing a Literary Agent
In the old days writers could send out their queries and fantasize for weeks about acceptance before getting that crumpled little self-addressed envelope with its bad news back in the mail. Nowadays, thanks to email, we can be zapped with rejection in a matter of minutes! Nevertheless, email queries are a boon to writer and agent. They save time, paper and postage. Not to mention unproductive fantasizing. Much email writing breeds carelessness in most of us so it's a good idea to pay special attention to any ..
Daily Writing Tips (1 day ago)
Friday Recap - Happy Birthday USA Edition
Good Friday to you! Okay, it's not really Friday, but for us lucky ones tomorrow is a holiday. No work means no post on Friday, so you're getting your recap early. Break out the barbecue and beach towels, and then enjoy this slightly random slice of Internet-romping, weekend-welcoming bliss....
Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog (1 day ago)
Feed a Fever, Without Starving Your RSS Reader
If you've ever come back from a vacation or conference and been reluctant to open up your RSS reader due to the sheer number of unread items that certainly awaited, you are already familiar with “second inbox guilt”. It's caused by having a second unread count, much like your email inbox, that you have to constantly churn and plow through every day. The cure for this disease, however, may well be a fever. Fever is a different kind of RSS reader, rather than burdening you with unread entries and ma..
Blogging Tips (1 day ago)
Now You Can Use Dynamic Subject Lines for Your Feedburner Emails
This was probably the most requested feature in the history of Feedburner. Until yesterday, if people subscribed to your blog via the Feedburner email service, all the subject lines of your emails would be static, containing either the name of your blog or some other text that you would specify. This is obviously annoying because subscribers can't know what the email is about before they open it. On Daily Writing Tips we have close to 10,000 email subscribers, and at least once a week one of them would email ..
Daily Blog Tips (1 day ago)
Speeding up: Attracting more visitors with content and community
We're well under way with our five-week educational series about speeding up your business in a slowdown, which we kicked off two weeks ago . This week, you'll hear tips from Jack Herrick, the founder of wikiHow.com, about attracting new visitors to your site. As we share more tips over the next two weeks about increasing your revenue potential and attracting more advertiser budget, we hope you'll leave comments with your own suggestions for growing your business. You can also follow the series at www.google...
Inside AdSense (1 day ago)
Appearing Transparent is Profitable, Being Transparent is Not
John Andrews has a great post about structured data & SEO . My take on the idea (for most businesses anyhow)? It is an arbitrage play. If you are the first person in a space to do it really well and can parlay that into testimonial links and case studies that is great. But give it 5 years and the search engines will have sucked even more blood out of most businesses. About marketing a while back I wrote that it is "packaging and the stuff that don't matter" because increasingly packaging is becoming one ..
Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com - (1 day ago)
Free Report with 500 Internet Marketing Strategies
My friend Gyutae Park emailed me to let me know that he just released an ebook titled The Winning Way . The ebook is free, and you will just need to subscribe to his email newsletter to be able to download it. It has 118 pages and it covers 500 different Internet marketing strategies and tips. Those are obviously short tips, but there are many interesting ideas among them, ranging from ecommerce to blogging and linkbuilding. In fact here is what Gyutae wrote on the ebook page: I’m so confident that this resou..
Daily Blog Tips (1 day ago)
How to Write an Ebook that Sells in 2009
You’ll see one theme come up again and again on Copyblogger. If you want to create real revenue with your blog, you need to have something worthwhile to sell. Most sites are disappointed by the nickels and dimes that come in from advertising. If your site gets massive amounts of traffic, it can work, but if not, you’ll want to find a much more profitable source of revenue. But most of us find that it’s not all that easy to translate high-quality content from your blog into a high-quality product for sale. Fou..
Copyblogger (1 day ago)
Faulty Subordination, Rambling Sentences, and Faulty Parallelism
If you missed the post on faulty coordination, Sentence Structure and Coordination , be sure to check it out. We discussed that you don’t always need to begin a sentence with the subject, and the problems we can run into with improper coordination. This post is a continuation of that topic covering faulty subordination, rambling sentences and faulty parallelism. There are two types of problems we can encounter when using subordination; we can use the wrong subordinator or we can subordinate the wrong idea. ..
Blogging Tips (1 day ago)
Feedburner Add Customizable Subject Lines to Email Subscriptions
One month ago I wrote an open letter to Google/Feedburner suggesting that it might be time to add some more features to Feedburner - particularly the ability to customize subject lines of those subscribing to a feed via RSS. It seems that they've been hard at work on that very feature. Today I logged into my Feedburner account and noticed this in the ‘Email Branding' area. Yep - it's the feature we've been waiting for! All you need to do now is add the tag ${latestItemTitle} into the subject line and it..
ProBlogger Blog Tips (2 days ago)
Happiness is more subject in your subject line.
If a certain lack of variety has weighed on the format of your day-to-day, feed-to-email deliveries, things are looking up at last. Recent advances in dollar-sign technology have brought some strange and fascinating new capabilities to the Email Branding section of FeedBurner's Email Subscriptions feature. Read on, ostensibly for the many useful pictures and descriptions, but really for the danger and excitement only a new checkbox can bring. First, sign in to your Google Account on FeedBurner and then click y..
AdSense for Feeds (2 days ago)
Aviary Screen Capture
It's a pretty common task for a blogger to need a screen capture to get a picture of a Web page or grab a logo of a web site that they are writing about. While Windows, Mac and Linux include some basic tools for screen captures, most bloggers will want a screen capture tool with the ability to capture portions of pages and add text or other annotations to the captured images. What's amazing is that the improvements in screen capture software are rolling out at an amazing pace. Just earlier this year Jonatha..
Blogging Tips (2 days ago)
