Archive for Blogging Tools and Services

Written on February 17th, 2009 at 07:02 am by Darren Rowse

Learn how to Launch the **** out of your E-Book

Blogging Tools and Services 45 comments

While many bloggers are monetizing blogs with direct methods like advertising and affiliate programs another method that more and more bloggers are making good money by selling their own e-books. Today Jade Craven of The Prolific Writer reviews a new resource that is written to help bloggers wanting to do exactly that – How to [...]

Written on February 6th, 2009 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

How To Sleep Better After an Upgrade – Blog Unit Testing

Blog Design, Blogging Tools and Services 38 comments

Upgrading your blog platform? This guest post from Sid Savara, who writes about personal development and personal productivity is for you.

If you’re a Thesis user (like me) you may have had some issues recently when upgrading to version 1.4. The issues affected a minority of Thesis users, and required reverting to an old [...]

Written on January 27th, 2009 at 12:01 pm by Darren Rowse

Read this Free 22 Page Report and Case Studies on Growing Your Online Business

Blogging Tools and Services 29 comments

The team at the successful Teaching Sells training program have just released a Free 22 page Report and 3 great Free Case Studies which I think make great learning tools for those wanting to learn how to start successful online businesses.
The report (that also comes as an audio file) covers:

Whether blogging is dead or not
How [...]

Written on January 18th, 2009 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse

Use Gravatars to Add Personality to Your Blog

Blog Design, Blogging Tools and Services 56 comments

In this post Jack Gamble from Babeled sheds some light on a handy service – Gravatars which is a tool that many people are adding to their blogs (I’ve got it operating in the comments section of both TwiTip and Digital Photography School at present).

An important thing to remember as you develop your blog is [...]

Written on January 9th, 2009 at 08:01 am by Darren Rowse

Add Social Proof to Your Blog With TweetBacks

Blogging Tools and Services, Social Media 47 comments

In this post Dan Zarrella tells us about a new tool he’s created for bloggers – TweetBacks – a tool that allows you to add instances where your blog has been mentioned on Twitter to your blogs comments section.
A few days ago, I created the first implementation of TweetBacks (see the WP plugin here), which [...]

Written on January 3rd, 2009 at 12:01 am by Jeff Chandler

How To – Move From WordPress.com To WordPress.org

Blogging Tools and Services, Featured Posts 112 comments

Moving a Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is something I’ve had a lot of questions about – today Jeff Chandler shares tips on how to do it.
Everyday it seems like I find a story or two from a cities local online newspaper which delves into the topic of blogging and what it’s all about. The [...]

Written on December 28th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse

How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility

Blogging Tools and Services 51 comments

Many bloggers are upgrading versions in WordPress at the moment to 2.7 – so when Hendry Lee offered to write this guide to doing it I thought it’d be useful to many. Enjoy.
WordPress 2.7 codename “Coltrane” has been released earlier in December 2008, with the most significant change being the new Dashboard interface. A lot [...]

Written on December 20th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Jeff Chandler

Save Time By Auto Filling Comment Forms

Blogging Tools and Services 60 comments

In this post Jeff Chandlerhighlights a cool tool for auto filling in comment forms on blogs.
Ok Problogger faithful, I’m going to keep it short and sweet this week by telling you about a cool FireFox extension which is sure to save you some time in the long run. Generally, every blog out on the web [...]

Written on December 18th, 2008 at 06:12 am by Darren Rowse

Plugins Plugins Plugins (of the WordPress Variety)

Blogging Tools and Services 39 comments

Andy Beal has posted a great list of 21 WordPress plugins that he uses and recommends. Check it out at
21 Awesome WordPress Plugins That I Selfishly Kept to Myself Until Today.
There are a few others that I’ve included in my own recent list – 10 WordPress Plugins for New Blogs.
What others do you recommend?
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