Archive for the ‘Blogging tips’ Category

Filed Under (Back Links, Blogging, Blogging tips, PERSONAL, contest sponsorships) by Nishadha on September-1-2008

Sponsoring contests are a great way to build back links for your site and its a win win situation for all parties as well , you get back links , contest holder gets attractive prizes and with the increase in number of prizes participants chances of winning something increases.



Filed Under (Blogging tips, PERSONAL, google suggest, google suggest tool, optimize titles, traffic) by Nishadha on August-30-2008

Google suggest tool is a great way to analyze the search volumes for particular key words , using the suggest tool you can find best match for your keywords and use them in the title and at the beginning of the post for better search engine rankings.



Filed Under (Alexa traffic rank, Blogging, Blogging tips, PERSONAL, alexa, improve, searchstatus) by Nishadha on August-28-2008

If you are doing paid reviews , selling text links or anything that is related to advertising and making money online then it is important to improve your Alexa rank. Although I have a decent Alexa rank ( around 130,000 ) I never gave much thought about actively trying to improve it. I really started […]



Filed Under (Blogging tips, PERSONAL, TweetMyBlog, Twhirl, Twitter Tools, Twitter made easy, twitter) by Nishadha on August-27-2008

Twitter is not the latest in blogging but until recently I didn’t gave it much thought , but after seing the potential of Twitter in the Thirty Day Challenge I think I’m going to put some effort into building a following in Twitter. Twitter is a tricky thing , if not used properly it has […]



Filed Under (Blogging, Blogging tips, PERSONAL, web hosting, web hosting articles, web hosting reviews) by Nishadha on August-13-2008

If you are moving to a self hosted blog or website one of the hardest things can be finding a web hosting service that matches your needs. When I was first looking for Web hosting services I got a great deal from Bluefur.com ( 1 year web hosting for 10$ ) so I didn’t […]



Since the buzz is about increasing the number of comments and the quality of comments I though this is a good time to talk about how to turn that commentators into loyal readers of your blog. This is even more important to do if you are getting good traffic from search engines because they are […]



Filed Under (Blogging tips, Entrecard, PERSONAL, SezWho, bounce rate, commentators, time on site, traffic) by Nishadha on July-18-2008

I don’t know whether to love or hate the Entrecard team , they always seem to introduce the best things when I’m away , After introducing great things like comment rush and the entre-digg community now they are introducing another great thing,Entrecard-SezWho partnership , which will hopefully increase the bounce rate of your blog […]



Filed Under (Blogging, Blogging tips, PERSONAL, blogger in draft, blogspot, comments, embedded comments) by Nishadha on June-30-2008

One good thing about Google owned services is they are bound to improve with time and feedback from the users. One big critizims I always had about blogger is the comments form. The comment form in blogger was a good example of how not to encourage comments .Well there were some solutions and hacks […]



Filed Under (Blogging, Blogging tips, PERSONAL, Templates., ad converter, blogger, blogspot, java script, themes, wordpress) by Nishadha on June-20-2008

There is no argument that having a unique blog design does wonders for the branding of your blog. With thousands of Blogspot blogs out there its not easy to stand out as a Blogspot blog especially when you are only given very few templates to choose from.This is exactly what happens to most Blogspot bloggers […]



Filed Under (Blogging, Blogging tips, PERSONAL, Templates., ad converter, blogger, blogspot, java script, themes, wordpress) by Nishadha on June-20-2008

There is no argument that having a unique blog design does wonders for the branding of your blog. With thousands of Blogspot blogs out there its not easy to stand out as a Blogspot blog especially when you are only given very few templates to choose from.This is exactly what happens to most Blogspot bloggers […]



Filed Under (Blogging, Blogging tips, PERSONAL, Tags, XHTML, embed, firefox, flash, internet explorer, object, opera) by Nishadha on June-19-2008

In my last post , How to look good in any browser - 1, I listed out three simple things you can do to improve the quality of your blog. In case you get some errors in the first validation below are some common errors and how to overcome them. Most of these are simple […]



Are you a nice blogger who cares about your visitors ? If so you should worry about how your blog or website looks in different browsers. Your blog that looks beautiful in your Firefox browser might not look so good in Internet Explorer or Opera. You can achieve this in three easy steps and if […]



Filed Under (Blogging tips, Blogs, PERSONAL, free tools, images, optimize) by Nishadha on June-10-2008

Adding an image in a post not only makes it more attractive but users tend to read posts with images as well. To me image is as important as a good title because both can lead to visitors reading the rest of the blog. Problem with Images is that they can reduce the load time […]



Want lots of traffic ? Want to be an authority in your niche ? One of the best ways to achieve them is to add useful informative comments in popular blogs in your niche. Adding a comment is one thing but if you are the 50′th person commenting about that post chances of your comment […]



Filed Under (Blogging, Blogging tips, LIFESTYLE, blog templates) by ROUGE-7 on March-4-2008

Finally today in the afternoon I managed to make this template I found work !.. I fixed it up for my test blog and during the week hope to have it up on this blog.. Ok too any ardent bloggers who will shrug and call me a loser.. it might be easy for Yo…



Filed Under (Blogging, Blogging tips, LIFESTYLE, blog templates) by ROUGE-7 on March-4-2008

Finally today in the afternoon I managed to make this template I found work !.. I fixed it up for my test blog and during the week hope to have it up on this blog.. Ok too any ardent bloggers who will shrug and call me a loser.. it might be easy for Yo…



Filed Under (Blogging, Blogging tips, LIFESTYLE, Templates.) by ROUGE-7 on February-24-2008

Tired of the same old look of my blog I decided to look around for new templates. Doing a simple google Search just netted me more of the same sort of templates I’m used to seeing. Feeling rather dejected I went to check my Entrecard account and was br…