Archive for Advice I Give My Clients
Get a Comments Policy for Your Blog
I like the comments policy of the Blog Herald.
It’s a good idea and something I’ll probably be doing on my blogs as I continue to get spam, and otherwise irritating and distracting comments on posts.
If you blog for long in almost any field (unrelated to your dog or cat), you’ll find self-promoters who merely […]
Removing The Date from Posts
Seeing this article at Daily Blog Tips about removing the timestamp from posts got me thinking.
I get a significant amount of Google search engine traffic (50-60 percent on average) on my main blog (as well as my other ones), so I know many people are finding my site through single posts. And most of […]
Pavlina: Become an Expert, Create Value
Professional blogger Steve Pavlina answers 11 questions from Daniel at Daily Blog Tips.
Number 8 was worth reading the entire post. Daniel’s question was: If you could give an advice for a novice blogger, what would it be?
Here’s Pavlina’s response:
Don’t be a novice. Nobody wants to read a novice. Instead become an expert at contributing substantial […]
Google PageRank, Fortune Telling and BCS Football
According to Daniel and Bob, Google is updating their PageRank stuff, which in laymen’s terms means … how King Google determines your worth, value and significance (not personally, I think).
Evidentally, they use some sort of fancy, smanchy math formula (alga-rhythm or is it algo-rithmm-m) to determine who matters in cyberspace in their search results … […]
Link Roundup 4/18/07
Here are some links I’m bookmarking for reading and savoring and reminding …
How FreelanceSwitch Went from 0 to 2000 Subscribers in 12 days — FreelanceSwitch is a site I’m really looking forward to diving into and reading in Bloglines.
How to Squeeze More Money Out of Your Blog — Love the advice Ryan Caldwell gives here […]
Advice I Give To My Clients: Get This FTP Program … SmartFTP
If you’re going to do much work on the web besides typical posting, etc. on your blog, you’re going to need a good FTP program.
My suggestion is SmartFTP … pretty neat program. It remembers you addresses, passwords, etc. And you can have multiple tabs and thus sites up.
Advice I Give To My Clients: On Finding Quality Photos
One of the hardest things about blogging is finding quality photos to use in your graphical headers.
Here are a couple of places I use to find top-notch photos and graphics.
IStockPhotos - it’s a paid site, but the quality is great
Stock.Xchng - free site, good stuff, check the restrictions
Flickr’s Creative Commons photos - free but check […]
Advice I Give My Clients: Add This To Your Blog
One of the things I’ve struggled with is adding social bookmarking functions like del.icio.us and Digg to my blogs …
Now with AddThis, it is all bundled into one nice, neat, little button.
Check out the AddThis WordPress Plugin also.
[Originally seen and coveted on ProBlogger]
How to Increase Your Blog’s Email Newsletter and Feeds Subscriptions
I’ve started a new category called “Advice I Give My Clients” and while I might not give everything away through this series of posts … I’m planning on giving some good advice I’ve learned in my blogging experience.
So here’s the first in this series … how to increase your blog’s email newsletter and feed subscriptions […]
