Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

When In Doubt - Update Your Blog

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

The only way to get a pay raise from blogging is by posting more. There is no way to stand still and expect the money to keep going up, it just doesn't work that way. Some of the pages in your archive will fall from glory, whether your ...

Blogging In The Dark

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

There's something weird about blogging when it's still dark outside. It seems like it's way too early to be up and hitting the Wordpress. But really, why not? I have a blogging schedule I'm trying to keep, in order to increase my blog revenue, so there's no ...

Blog Archives Puts Weekend On Cruise Control

Monday, October 8th, 2007

If you don't feel like blogging on the weekends, you can let your archives do the work for you. You still have every page you ever worked on, and they are all running ads. So you know that your past efforts will pay off for you. The ...

Blog Comments Not All They’re Cracked Up To Be

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

It's nice to get comments in your blog, but there are some downsides to the practice. Most notably is the fact that incessant spammers constantly try and bombard blogs with messages. No matter how many years go by, this practice always remains popular. I doubt it will ...

Consistency Counts In Blogging

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Making money from your blogging is not as hard as rocket science, but it still is a bit of mystery to many people. But I've found one thing that can move your blog to profitability quicker than anything else: consistency in posting. If you can maintain posting schedule ...

A Blogging Trick

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Here's a trick that you can see done by many bloggers: write authoritatively, no matter how little you know about a subject. Nobody actually checks your credentials, so it's quite easy to pretend to be an expert, especially if you adopt the proper tone. Blogging is at a point where ...

Quick Hit Blog Posts Paying Off

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Lately I've adopted a hit'em quick staccato method of blog posting. Sure, not all of my posts are likely to be works of art if I'm shooting them out like a Tommy Gun, but at least I'm likely to get visitors. As long as you can see progress ...

Quick Upgrade To WordPress 2.1 And Redesign

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

For spring cleaning I'm upgrading WordPresses and implementing design changes. So far, the upgrades have gone remarkable well. What's the quickest way to upgrade a WordPress blog? After you untar it, type "rsync -rv /newblog /oldblog" Voila! That will overwrite the files with the updated files. Log in ...

Wordpress And Duplicate Content

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Wordpress gives off a ton of duplicate content in its' default state. One thing you will definitely want to do is check your template and do these things first: 1) Cut any links to the "trackback" and "feed" pages, which will show up as dupes. 2) Add the following code to ...

Not All Blog Posts Have To Be Long - Blog Tip #1

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

In fact, many blog posts that I happen along are quite short. The main key is: does the blog post convey a message of deeper significance? If it does, and the user and the blogger connect, than the blogger can be forgiven their brevity. All in all, though, it's ...