Microsoft just joined the desktop blogging application game, with Windows Live Writer. So far in my blogging career, I haven’t found a desktop blogging tool that I really like. I’ve used 2 of the big ones, Ecto and Qumana, but I haven’t switched over yet. Neither app seemed to give me any substantial benefit [...]
Blend your ads - ads that stick out are an eyesore, and can detract from your site’s content.
Less is more. Just because you are allowed to put 3 ad units and one like unit on each page doesn’t mean you should. Too many ads are distracting
Keep your writing focused. Since Adsense is [...]
Blog Republic has an interesting post about one of the benefits of blogging - mobility. In fact, this is one of the main reasons that I began blogging in the first place.
I can post from my desktop, my laptop, or my Tablet PC. I can write a post while sitting on my couch. I can [...]
One of the biggest, political blogs around has obtained a staggering amount of venture capital - $5 million. Not bad for a blog, is it? This just goes to show That blogs can be huge- if you put in the work.
What is Technorati?
All good guides start here. Technorati indexes just about all the blogs on the planet - a daunting task if ever there was one. Basically they keep track of each and every post and link out there - so they know who’s posting, what they’re posting about, and even who is [...]
Technorati’s quarterly State of the Blogosphere is back again.Here are a few of the highlights:
Over 50 million blogs tracked
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months.
175,000 new blogs are created every day
That’s 2 blogs per second.
70% of pings are spam
There are 1.6 million posts per day
That’s 18.6 posts per second.
These numbers are nothing short [...]
This is one of the first questions an aspiring blogger usually asks. him or her self. It’s a question that has only one answer, and a simple one at that.
What are you passionate about? What do you enjoy most?
You don’t need to be an expert on your blog’s topic. You do need to be [...]
One of the hottest income streams in the blogging world is Text Link Ads ( affilliate link). Basically, it is exactly the way it sounds - you get paid for having text link ads on your site.
How does it work?
Simply go to the Text Link Ads website, and sign up to be a publisher. [...]
All of you have heard of Google’s Adsense program ( if you haven’t, where have you been for the last few years?? ) Quite a few of you probably already use it. For those of you who have heard of it, but haven’t yet had the courage to try it out, this post is [...]
Ok, so you’ve decided that blogging is for you. You want to be a blogger. Only, you don’t know what to do now. Here are a few basic steps.
Decide on your blogging platform. Make this decision wisely - it’s quite difficult to switch an established blog to a new platform, and it can mess with [...]
