Tag: Blogs

Get a link! I’ve read some articles, where it’s written that bloggers, need to “get a life” Maybe so, but links are great for all of us bloggers. Do you want a link? Read on….. While learning how to blog, I’ve read many “how to” articles on succeeding with blogging…. read more Share The Love In Blogosphere-Get A Link

What is a blog? Technically speaking, a blog is the name for a web log. Take the “b” off of web, add it to “log, and there you have it “blog”. To blog, is easy. If you’ve ever written in a diary or journal, you’ve been “blogging”, without a “blog”…. read more What Is A Blog? Why Do People Blog?

How much time should you expect to spend writing for your blog? That depends on what you’re blogging about, and if you’re writing your own content. If you write a sentence or two, and then reference an article in another blog, or on another site, you could publish a post… read more Time Needed For Blogging

The expected stats for a newbie’s blog seems to be a mystery. I’ve done some research on stats for a new blog, but so far only found one newbie blog, where the author listed their stats. I’m curious, are my new blog stats inline with other new blogs? Am I… read more Stats For Newbie Blogs – I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours

I’m not sure what constitutes being a newbie to blogging, but I think I’m still a newbie, as my two blogs are less than three months old. When I first started blogging, I felt overwhelmed by everything I was reading. My head spun for weeks, and the learning curve was… read more Newbie To Blogging?

You blog. You want your blog to rank high on the search engines. The major question is, “How do I get my blog at the top of the search engine results?”. From my experience, getting your blog to the top of search engine results doesn’t happen overnight. This is what… read more How To Rank High On Search Engine Results

So, you want to change your WordPress theme, but aren’t sure what to do? Switching your WordPress theme is pretty simple. 1) First, locate, download and unzip (extract all files) a WordPress theme that suits your site. Check out my previous post The Best Source For Free WordPress Themes 2)… read more How To Change Your WordPress Theme

I love finding free stuff. From the time I started my blogs, I have been amazed at how much free stuff is online to aid in blogging. First it was WordPress blogging software, then it was tons of plugins and widgets, and now I’m using a free Meta Tag Analyzer… read more Free Meta Tag Analyzer

Showing related posts on your blog will help to increase what’s called it’s “stickiness”, or the length of time a reader spends on your site. Adding the related posts plugin is quite simple. Earlier today, I added the related posts plugin on both of my blogs, in a matter of… read more Show Related Posts

A lot of blogs use tag clouds, or word tags at the bottom of each post. Are tag clouds or word tags necessary to drive more traffic to your site? I’ve done a small amount of research, and it appears the verdict is still be out on this matter. Some… read more Use Word Tags To Increase Traffic to Blog?

Learning where to insert code into a WordPress blog can be confusing. Most code is written in HTML, as are the “presentation”, “theme editor” pages. All the more reason to learn HTML. The process I follow to make inserting code into my WordPress blogs easier, is to study the “theme… read more Learning Where To Insert Code In A WordPress Blog

When researching setting up a blog, most sites say to blog on specific topics. “Pick a topic you know a lot about, and start a blog”. At the end of March 2007, I started two blogs. This one and www.observationmountain.com. This one is specific to blogging. www.observationmountain.com is not on… read more Blog On Specific Topics or Not

Just the other day I joined a blog carnival. Joining blog carnivals is a great way to get your blog more traffic. The blog carnival “service” I joined is BlogCarnival.com. I submitted several of my aritcles plus submitted my “blogs” to a carnival that is showcasing new blogs. What I… read more Join Blog Carnivals For More Traffic

I’ve now had Google Analytics tracking my sites for a month seven months a year over two years now. What do I think of Google Analytics? I love all of the graphs and maps they provide, however, the numbers I’m receiving are different than Awstats and Webalizer. In fact, they’re… read more Google Analytics vs Awstats vs Webalizer

When I started my blogs, the first thing I did was to start posting articles. The second thing I did was to concentrate on finding a good WordPress theme. I searched the internet and found many sites that offer WordPress themes, however, the best free site I found is Theme… read more Best Free WordPress Themes Website

Is it just me, or do you get frustrated with the outdated information search engines are “throwing at you”? I do a lot of research for my blogs, as well as for my full time job. What I find most frustrating, is that the information at the top of the… read more Search Engines & Outdated Information

Setting up a website or a blog? Need a domain name and web host? Want to buy a popular domain name? I know of one advertiser that sells domain names, They are www.GoDaddy.com where you can Find, Buy & Sell Domain Names Do you want to choose your own domain… read more Web Hosting & Domain Names

My research recently took me to an interesting plugin named Clean Archives. It can be found and downloaded at Geekwithlaptop.com The Clean Archives plugin will list all of your posts by month and date, creating a neat and orderly list. They can be listed either in your sidebar, or on… read more Listing All Of Your Posts With Clean Archives

Should you write your posts using high paying popular keywords like mesothelioma? If depends on your theme,, but in most instances, incorporating “high paying” keywords into your posts would be difficult. And, make for content that wouldn’t hold your reader’s interest. I’ve done some research on the most popular keywords…. read more Generate Traffic and Income – Use Keywords Like Mesothelioma

As I continue to learn, I find that I’m constantly tweaking my blogs. The latest addition to my blogs is the “WP Notable” plugin from Cal Evans. By searching, I found his site at www.claevans.com The instructions on his site are quite self explanatory. I followed them, but did run… read more Adding The “WP Notable” Plugin To Your Blog

For me, having two WordPress blogs, has proven to be very helpful. Being in the process of learning HTML code, and adding advertising to my blogs, I spend a lot of time in the “presentation” section of my blogs. Last night, I was on a quest to add my blog… read more The Advantage of Having More Than One Blog

When I’m researching for my blogs, I never know where the search will take me. Yesterday, as I was researching, “how to link to previous posts”, I came across, “how to add meta tags”. From what I’ve read, it may be important to have meta tags in your blog. Apparently,… read more Adding Meta Tags To Your Blog

As I mentioned in an earlier post Learning About & Problems With My RSS Feed, I was having problems setting up the RSS feed on this blog. I already had one at the bottom of the page, but I wanted to be able to use the universal RSS feed symbol…. read more RSS Feed Problem Solved

Stumble Upon is a new (to me) way to surf the internet. After you register, you check boxes for the types of sites you like to view. The categories are limitless. After you add the Stumble Upon toolbar, you can click the “Stumble” button and see websites that fit your… read more Stumble Upon – Add Your Blog

In an effort to increase traffic to my blogs, I came upon Google Analytics. It appears to be a well designed tracking mechanism. It apparently can analyze what improvements can be made to your blog to continue getting a good traffic flow, plus possibly increase your traffic flow. It also… read more How To Add Google Analytics To Your Blog-It’s Free

When I’m writing my blogs, this one and www.observationmountain.com, I post directly to the WordPress “Write Post” screen. I don’t use a text editor. I continue to click, “save and continue editing” until I’m happy with my post. I often need to move sentences or paragraphs around to make my… read more How to Copy and Paste in WordPress

Setting up a blog can be time consuming, however, I find that micromanaging my blogs is even more time consuming. Since starting my blogs, I have changed the theme, added advertising, familiarized myself with WordPress, Bluehost (my hosting company), and started to learn a lot of new computer language. I’m… read more Micromanage Your Blog

Today I decided to begin learning HTML (Hyper Test Markup Language).  I searched on the internet and found a great, free website, www.w3schools.com.  They have a quiz you can take, which I like, so I know if I, indeed, learned something about HTML or XHTML.    Having looked at my “presentation” – “Theme… read more Learning HTML & XHTML

Blogroll: As you’re searching the internet and reading blogs, you’ll see a category on a lot of blogs that says, “blogroll”. I see this as a list of your friends or relatives, or, in the case of blogging, usually strangers, who have helped you as you learned how to blog…. read more Blogroll, Links, Sidebar, Post, Content: More Definitions

Lately I’ve been researching and reading a lot about blogging. I read about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), page rank, rating of pages, crawlers, spiders, robots, pinging, trackbacks, mega tags, links, stats, traffic, etc…..the list goes on. As a novice blogger, this information can get to be overwhelming. Should I be… read more The Crawlers, Spiders & Robots Are Coming – Start Posting