Blogging

Google AdSense Tips from ProBlogger Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse is a blogging Rockstar and is someone that every up and coming blogger should listen to and learn from. He runs the hit blogs, Digital Photography School and Problogger. He also recently launched Twitip for Twitter tips and tricks (I recently had a guest post on Twitips about Marketing a Niche Site on [...]


Please Don’t Write Blog Posts in Word

It’s second nature to write with MS Word. We’ve been trained to use it our whole lives. And that’s fine. But blogging is a different medium and it does not play well with Word.
Many of my guest bloggers and pretty much everyone else, automatically write everything in Word. This is fine and all. But the [...]


When Not To Use Wordpress as a CMS

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Wordpress can be great as a simple Content Management System. Search engines love it, it’s easy to use and can look great with little effort.
The problem with Wordpress as a CMS is that if you want to create a database of information or a site with more types of content that pages and [...]


How To Choose a Good Hosting Service

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The website hosting industry is EXTREMELY competitive right now. Hosting services are becoming as important as regular utilities. They’re the engines driving innovation on the web from the latest website ideas to the hottest blogs.
So, how do you get in on the action? How do you choose the best host for your blog [...]


For the Love of God, Get Your Own Domain for Your Corporate Blog

I’ve seen it again and again, Blog Misunderstanding Syndrome. It’s very common. A company gets convinced by someone, probably on their staff, that they should be blogging. Not wanting to spend money on the medium, said person starts a blog on a free service such as Blogger or Wordpress.com.
Great! They started a blog! But wait. [...]


Set up Your Self Hosted Wordpress Blog in 17 Steps

The blogging revolution has changed the way content is published and shared on the world wide web. Everyone is an expert on something and free tools are now available to allow people to share that knowledge with the world and well a profit from it. This guide is how to set up your own self [...]


Do Yourself a Favor: Avoid iWeb

A few years ago, when I needed to set up a website to find my first job, I turned to iWeb to set it up. It was well integrated with all the other Mac Apps I used and it made setting up a website a breeze. But even on those first websites I set up, [...]


Guide to Building Backlinks Through Blog Commenting

Backlinks are the most important aspect of building a successful website. To those that don’t know, your search rankings are partly based on how many website link back to yours. So, here’s your guide to do follow blogs.
There are many ways to build backlinks, which I won’t cover here. But there are good way and [...]