Archive for: May, 2009
Written on May 25th, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
How to Become more Popular (and Grow your Income) by Making your Topic Stupidly Easy
This guest post is by Johnny B Truant from Learn to Be Your Own V.A. and The Economy Isn’t Happening.
Back in early April, partially at the suggestion of Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz, I wrote a free e-book intended to make launching a standalone blog easy, fast, and cheap. It was a short book, comprised of [...]
Written on May 24th, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
Banishing Spammers and Trolls With .htaccess Files
In a guest post, Neil Matthews of WPDude.com writes about how comment spammers and trolls can be banished from your site by blocking their IP address using the .htaccess file.
Are you plagued by spammers and trolls inside of the comments section of your blog? If you are, I want to give you a simple little [...]
Written on May 23rd, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
15 Ways to Rework Your Next Blog Post Title
This post is task #32 (a bonus one) in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge.
Your task today is to rework the title of the next post that you write
OK – so you need to have a post written before you can do this one but assuming you have a post ready [...]
Written on May 22nd, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
Has the Economy Impacted Blogger Job Listings?
In August 2006 I realized that I was regularly getting two types of email requests:
Companies looking to hire bloggers
Bloggers looking to be hired by companies
As a result I decided to start a Job Board for Bloggers.
The concept was simple. Those looking to hire bloggers could place an ad for 30 days for $50. Those looking [...]
Written on May 21st, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
The Other Side Of ProBlogging: Making Real Money Right From The Start Of Your Blogging Career
In this post Ali Hale from the Office Diet shares some tips on how to make money from blogging by being a ‘Staff Blogger’. Learn more about Ali in the footer of this post.
You started a blog with the dream of making a living from writing about something you love. A month, or six months, [...]
Written on May 20th, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
11 Striking Findings From an Eye Tracking Study
image by s-revenge
If you’ve got a spare 10 minutes today check out Eyetrack III who have published some great findings in their latest eye tracking studies of news and multimedia content sites (found via Direct Creative Blog).
There’s loads of juicy goodness in the full article but here are 11 of the main points that grabbed [...]
Written on May 19th, 2009 at 07:05 am by Darren Rowse
Light or Dark Blog Backgrounds? [POLL RESULTS]
Our last poll asked readers whether they preferred light or dark backgrounds in blog design. The results were:
The majority like ‘Light’ backgrounds but a fair chunk of readers think it depends upon the blog design.
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Written on May 19th, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
Megatrends and Blogging
Yesterday I spent most of the day at a conference here in Melbourne called the Future Summit. My role was ‘guest twitterer’ on the official Twitter account for the summit for a few of the sessions.
The presentation that I found most helpful today was by Alison Sander from Boston Consulting Group who spent 45 minutes [...]
Written on May 18th, 2009 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse
Designing a Custom WordPress Theme – Working with a Designer [PART 2]
Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme.
In my previous post, I talked about what I do when commissioning custom WordPress theme design. It left where the job started. In this post, I’ll talk about the steps that follow – working with the designer towards a complete and [...]
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