Tag: Blogging

If you have a blog, receiving your first comment (that wasn’t spam), is pretty exciting. Receiving a comment, validates that you are being heard. Comments can give you motivation to keep blogging. Comments can also develop into cyberspace friendships. Comments are also very important to fellow bloggers, so don’t forget… read more How To Get Comments On Your Blog

Leaving a comment on another blog, can spark many things. One comment can create a rush of traffic to your blog. A meaningful comment can also bring you many loyal visitors. Keep in mind, “comment traffic” can be “spikey” traffic, i.e. you could see an immediate spike in your traffic… read more Write Traffic Building Comments

Apparently, Google cares about page rank. And, so do the other search engines. A lot of bloggers care, too. I don’t. Maybe, I should… Today’s Lesson What is page rank? According to Wikipedia, PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked… read more Page Rank – Who Cares?

Google AdSense is a common way for bloggers, to try and generate income for their sites. If you sign into your Google account, you may see that you also have a choice for Google “referral” ads. Don’t yet have an AdSense account, you can click on the following link, and… read more Google Referral Ads vs Ads For Content

Learning all there is to know about keywords, keyword density, or keyword phrases, could take months. But, it is a known fact, using keyword density, may get your blog found, and drive more traffic to your site. This is what I have learned about keywords, keyword density and keyword phrases…. read more How To Use Keywords or Keyword Phrases

Page views in stats are over rated, and can be inflated. How? If you click on your own posts, and your stats program is not blocking your own visits, your page views go up. Example: One day I was feverishly working on my blog. I was all over the place…updating… read more Page Views Are Over Rated!

Is your blog being found by search engines, referrals, or direct (bookmarks, or someone types in your blog URL)? I have two blogs, and interestingly enough, readers are finding this blog, by referrals, almost exclusively. (A lot of my referrals, become “direct”, due to bookmarking.) My second blog, Observation Mountain.com… read more Search Engines, Referrals or Direct Traffic?

As written earlier, in my post, Is A Hit, A Visit? we found out that a hit is not a visit. So, is a visit a visit? It all depends on which stats program you’re using. Today, I’m analyzing five different blogging statistics platforms. It’s going to get confusing. What… read more Confusing Blog Stats – Is a Visit a Visit?

Years ago, we had just moved to a large city. My husband, not being used to freeways, was driving on one, just as he always did on the country roads. As he was enjoying the scenery, he heard a siren and then noticed flashing lights in his rear view mirror…. read more Is Your Blog “Petting Traffic”?

I’ve read many articles about blogging. Many state that you need to “pick a niche” and create a blog around that niche. Curiosity got the best of me, so I went to Technorati, and took a look at the top ten blogs. What did I find? Well, most of them… read more Niche, Or No Niche, That Is The Question…

I am not a newbie! I am not a newbie! I am not a newbie! I am not a newbie! Keep repeating this sentence, until you “get it”. Hearing the term, “I am a newbie”, in blogging, reminds me of how some women will say, “I’m just a housewife”, or… read more I Hate The Word “Newbie”

What is a favicon? To quote Wikipedia.org A favicon (short for ‘favorites icon’), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. Where do you see a favicon? You will see it at the beginning of the… read more How To Create A Favicon For Your Blog

Leaving comments on another blog, is a great way to generate more traffic, to your blog. How does leaving a comment on another blog, drive traffic to your blog, you ask? It starts with a short story. Several weeks ago, I left a comment on Darren Rowse’s blog, Problogger. Asako,… read more Comments Generate Traffic

I love to blog I love to write I check the time It’s past midnight My eyes are red My shoulders hurt My butt is numb I’m getting curt I checked my stats I made a dollar I want to shout I want to holler I like to link And… read more I Love To Blog

If you have been blogging for any length of time, are you finding out who really cares about your blog? Who are your regular visitors? Are they your family? Are they your friends? Do your family and friends visit your blog on a regular basis? Leave comments? This is what… read more You Blog? Who Cares?

Does your site need an extreme makeover? Just as humans, strive to look their best, we should treat our blogs, the same way. Good content could be compared to a good person. A good person may not make a great first impression, but once we get to know them, we… read more Are You A “Site For Sore Eyes”

You have a blog. Now, what about the design, or theme of your blog? It can be an daunting task…finding the theme that matches your content. Having changed my themes (I have two blogs), at least a half dozen times, I am reverting back to KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid!… read more KISS Your Blog

Blogs aren’t for everyone. In fact, blogs aren’t for most people. However, if you’re thinking of starting a blog, you need to ask yourself a few questions. 1) Am I willing to devote time to blogging? 2) Do I have the “spare change”, needed to start a blog? 3) Do… read more Do You Have What It Takes To Blog?

If you’re blogging, and are interested in search engine optimization (SEO), the first few sentences you write, are the most important. Your first sentence should not only tell your readers what your post is going to be about, but will also tell search engines, how to index your particular post…. read more Writing That Important First Paragraph

Google AdSense is a great way to make money with your blog. After adding some code to your pages, the ads will automatically appear – like magic. Once readers start clicking on your ads, you can start making money. An added bonus, it’s free to you. If you’re comfortable adding… read more Make Money With Google AdSense

If you blog, and add advertisements to your pages, you’ll often see the term, “above the fold”. So, what does “above the fold” mean? Above the fold, is a term that is used to describe what a reader sees when then open your page in their favorite browser. Above the… read more Above the Fold

Blogging is not my big idea to make millions. If you’re asking, “Can I make millions blogging?” Well…that’s a million dollar question. Take the time to read an earlier post, I wrote, “Quit Blogging, and Make Millions”.  Plus, if you’ve done any research, you’ll see that anyone who’s been blogging… read more Big Ideas That Could Make Millions

With blogging, the language is: CSS, HTML; XHTML, links, pings, trackbacks, URL’s, posting, stats, addons, widgets, plugins, SEO, page rank, RSS, and much more When I was “blogging without a blog”, a month or more before I actually had a blog, the language of blogging, made my head spin. To… read more Oh, That Blogging Language – Part 1

If you’re new to blogging, you may be overwhelmed with all of the blogging language. You did find out that blogging has it’s own language, didn’t you? My best advice to new bloggers, is to take it, one step at a time. There is no way, you’ll learn all there… read more Are You A New and Overwhelmed Blogger

If you’re a newbie to blogging, who is using WordPress, finding the right information can be difficult. Searching for information about blogging with WordPress, can produce millions of results. The best source for WordPress, is in an obvious place. It’s at WordPress .org. By clicking on the following link, you… read more Best Source For WordPress Newbies

Sitemeter is one of many statistical data reporting services for bloggers and webmasters. When one of my “Blogging Buddies”, mentioned they were using Sitemeter, I decided to give it a try. I was pleasently surprised at the detailed information Sitemeter provides. Sitemeter contains: 1) Updated stats which shows “who’s on”… read more Review – Sitemeter Statistical Data

My head is still reeling from “crashing” both of my blogs late last week. It all started, when I decided to add a third blog (more on that at a later date). I signed on to my web hosting account, and filled out all of the information. No problem there…. read more I “Crashed” My Blogs

You know you’re indexed with the search engines, because you read my previous article Are You Being Indexed On The Search Engines?. Now…….how do you know how high your pages are ranking, on the search engines? You can find out, in four easy steps. 1) Go to your stats program… read more How High Are You Ranking In The Search Engines?

If you have a website or blog, you’ll want to know that your site is being indexed. To test if your site is being indexed on Google, Yahoo, or any of the other search engines, enter your site’s name, i.e. “bloggingwithoutablog.com”, hit “search”. The results will show how many times… read more Are You Being Indexed On The Search Engines?

Want your links to open in a new browser? Inserting the code, is very easy. The code that needs to be inserted is { target =”new” }, or. {target =”_blank”}. This gets inserted immediately before the {>}, which is immediately before the description of the link. For an example, if… read more How To Create A Link In A New Browser