blogging beginners
Using a Feedreader Can Save You Time
Image via WikipediaWhat is a Feedreader?
A feedreader allows you to combine all of the blogs you read into the one webpage. Every time a blog updates with a post, your feedreader collects that posts and shows you those posts all on one page.
How Does a Feedreader Save You Time?
Instead of having to visit each […]
5 Reasons To Add A Tag Cloud To Your Blog
You may have noticed that I recently added Tag Clouds to the sidebars of both this blog and Lightening Online. I haven’t used them in the past because I haven’t really understood the benefits of doing so.
Benefits Of Having a Tag Cloud in Your Sidebar
1. Help Google to Find Your Keywords for Search
Assuming you […]
Blogger Templates
Finding an alternative template for a blogger blog is not all that hard. There are quite a few options available out there allowing you to copy and paste the entire coding for your template into the HTML page for your blog.
The problem with many of them is that they are designed to work in […]
How Many Visitors Does Your Blog Get?
How many people read your blog? Do you know? Do you care?
When I first started a blogger blog, I only knew people visited IF they left a comment.
The thing is, quite a small percentage of visitors actually leave a comment. In my experience it’s generally 10% or LESS.
So, how do you find […]
Adding a Link to Mr Linky
You may have seen, as you move around the blogworld, posts which invite you to participate in a particular theme where you write a post on your own blog and then add a link to that post on the host blog.
One such example of this is the “Smiley Saturday” that I host on Lightening Online.
These […]
Adding Links In Wordpress
Here is a step by step guide with screenshots for adding links to your posts if you’re using wordpress.
When you go to write a post, your screen should look something like this:
* Note: If you are using a self hosted wordpress program with tiny MCE installed, it will have a lot more icons but the […]
Technorati Basics
If you’re reasonably new to blogging or haven’t ventured far out into the blogosphere, you may find there are many aspects to blogging that seem very foreign to you. One of the things that took me quite a while was understanding technorati.
You may have seen little green buttons like this floating around on blogs […]
Linking
I remember back when I first started blogging. I thought I was an absolute LEGEND just to be able to write and post what I wanted to say. To actually LINK to someone else’s blog or a website or anything like that was to me like climbing Mount Everest. Seemingly impossible and […]
5 Steps to Hosting a Successful Blog Party
You’ve decided you want to have a party (blog) and why.
You’ve chosen a location (where your blog is) and got all the decorations up (template, colours and maybe some sidebar widgets) so your party looks pretty.
Now where are the guests? You want to start the party games. But party games are no fun […]
Where Will You Blog?
There are quite a number of options available to people who would like to have a blog. I’m not going to run through all of them as it can get rather overwhelming. For the purpose of this series I’m going to focus on what seems to be the most common 2. Blogger […]
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