Author Archive for Phillip Kimpo Jr
Setting a Blog Posting Schedule
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing There are a few gifted bloggers who somehow manage to finish their posting requirements on time – how many they might be – even if they are slackers and crammers. But for the majority of us bloggers and freelancers, posting regularly proves to be a hurdle. Whether you’re blogging for other people or for yourself, implementing and diligently following a blog posting schedule will help a lot in completing articles on time, while getting enough rest for ourselves. Blogging Schedule Ideas List all the blogs you need to write for, and how many posts you need to write per week/month. For freelance writers, ...Comments (25)
Don’t be a Tagboard Whore
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Linking, Tips, Promotion, Blogging Tools Tagboards are very useful for a beginning blogger for two chief reasons: They provide the blogger’s readers a hassle-free venue to give feedback or compliments; and They allow the blogger to easily build relationships (e.g. link exchange) with other bloggers by commenting on their tagboards. While there is nothing wrong with the latter – going around the tagboards of people and saying hello – this tactic is often abused (consciously or unconsciously) by many bloggers. There are bloggers whose obvious purpose is just to advertise their own sites, leaving messages such as “Dropped by”, “Visit my blog”, or worse, just smilies. For regular visitors ...Comments (8)
Blog Content from Article Sites
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing In our previous article, I mentioned article sites (also called article directories, or rarely, article libraries) as “tried and tested sources of free, free, free (can’t emphasize that enough) website content”. So, what is an article directory? Basically, an article directory plays host and categorizes thousands of ~500-700 word articles written by the ‘experts’ of various fields – from Internet marketing to pet dog care, from yoga to trucks, and everything in between. Most of all, they’re free to be republished (with the original author’s byline, of course). I wrote ‘experts’, because it’s up to the reader to decide if the ...Comments (0)
Where to Get “Supporting Blog Content”
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Images, Tips As bloggers, it's our responsibility to come up with original and informative articles. However, our pen (or keyboard, that is) do fail us from time to time, and we need inspiration for our blog posts. A good answer to this problem would be the earlier Blog Tutorial on where to get more blog topic ideas. So, you’ve pinned down the core concept of your blog post, which built upon your very own sentences, opinions, and experiences. Now, you just need that piece of quotation, that descriptive photo, that matching video – blog content that supports your core idea and words. ...Comments (4)
Changing Your Wordpress Permalinks
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Terminology, Linking, TipsWhen I’m opening a Wordpress blog (I’ve done so a dozen or more times), one of the first things I do is to change the permalink structure. “Permalink” (a portmanteau of “permanent” and “link”) means the URL or web address of your blog posts, pages, categories, archives, and so on.
When you install a Wordpress blog, it uses URLs that sport question marks and numbers. This isn’t the optimal permalink structure; here’s why:
1) Aesthetics. http://blog-tutorials.com/this-is-a-cool-post looks infinitely better than http://blog-tutorials.com/?p=123, doesn’t it?
2) Usability. Remember, whenever a blog reader hovers his/her mouse ...
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Importing From Blogsome to Wordpress
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Tips A feature that I’ve always liked about the Wordpress blogging system is the ease of importing your old posts. By importing, I mean the transfer of blog posts from your old blog (e.g. Blogspot, MT, TypePad) into a new Wordpress blog. In the Wordpress system, you can import these posts with just a few clicks. However, there’s a bit of problem when you’re importing from Blogsome (which also runs on Wordpress, albeit the Wordpress MU version). As you can see in the image below, Blogsome isn’t included in the list of import-able blogs....
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When Not to Blog, Part 2
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Yesterday, we discussed the first part of When Not to Blog. Let's wrap it up here. Sponsored reviews Writing about sponsored reviews (or advertisements) on one’s blog is already a tricky issue being debated over on the Net, and I’ll not be taking sides here. If you do decide to write sponsored reviews, don’t immediately jump into the water – think about these two points first: 1) Do you have the time to regularly write both sponsored reviews and your own ‘normal’ posts? If you follow a regular posting sched (let’s say, 3x a week), don’t include sponsored reviews among that ...Comments (3)
When Not to Blog, Part 1
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing For your blog to become successful, you’ll need to have discipline when it comes to posting. You’ll need to follow a regular posting schedule to ensure that readers will come back and that your site can offer fresh keyword-rich content for the search engines. However, there are times when you shouldn’t force yourself to write/publish a blog post. Doing so might hurt your blog’s quality and your reputation as a blogger. Here are some instances that you might want to avoid: Parroting another blog post Have you heard of the echo chamber? The blogosphere is fast becoming one. In the echo chamber, bloggers just ...Comments (5)
Use Image Attributes to Boost Your Blog’s SEO
Posted by Phillip as Images, Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features Last month, we had a post about image relevance in blog posts. But images aren't just there to spice up your posts -- they can draw in traffic as well, that is, search engine traffic. When properly used, images can help your blog's search engine optimization. You'll need to pay attention to two attributes/HTML tags: alt and title. The alt attribute stands for "alternate text", which stands in for the image when it can't be displayed properly. The alt attribute is a pillar of website accessibility, and is a boon for visually-impaired users and those who use speech synthesizers. But aside ...Comments (0)
New Blog Tutor, Signing On
Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorials News Hi everybody. I'm Phillip (aka Corsarius), one of the new writers who'll be bringing you regular writing tips, search engine optimization tricks, and blog tutorials. By day, I'm a problogger and freelance writer. I've regularly written for over 30 websites, and you can currently find me at Performancing.com, one of the leading sites for probloggers today. By night, I write literature, you know, the usual stuff -- poetry, fiction, essays, and whatnot. (Mercifully, a couple of my works have seen print, hehe!) As you can see, both my cash jobs and art revolve around writing. In the next weeks, I'll ...Comments (3)
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Design and Themes
Is Your Blog W3C Compliant?
Last night I checked my personal blog’s code hoping I can proudly display the W3C Validated Button. Since I use Blogger and do not really do anything to clean up the code (beyond adding Alt-tags to the images I embed) I wasn’t surprised at all to find that my blog contained lots of errors - […]
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Software and Widgets
Wordpress Plug-ins
If you blog using Wordpress and can’t do something that you want done like adding Sphere-related content at the end of your blog posts you might be surprised to find out that there are already plug-ins available that make it happen.
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To find good Wordpress plug-ins all you need to do is search for “wordpress […]
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Reviews
A Friend In Need
I’m helping out my friends from the UA&P - IShareHappiness Blog Team.
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Whenever you feel pessimistic, angry, troubled, frustrated, and depressed – what have you – you need someone to talk to. Someone who could help you be more optimistic and help make you feel that there is hope. Sometimes it’s hard to talk to someone […]
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Monetization
Making Money Through Consumer Generated Ads
As I mentioned in my previous post today I will be suggesting some ways you can still profit by joining programs such as Pay Per Post and yet ensure that your readers don’t get turned off.
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In my opinion the only way to really do this is by making sure that your blog entries stay […]
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Marketing and Search Optimization
The Blogger’s Guide to SEO
One of the best holistic guide to optimising a blog is Aaron Wall’s Blogger’s Guide to SEO. It is not the most in-depth guide but it covers all the basics (and a bit more) and is written in a such a way that even newbies in SEO will definitely understand. The guide also links out […]
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