Don’t be a Tagboard Whore

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 […]

Benefiting from Article Syndication

Though article syndication is not that encouraged anymore and is even viewed by many as totally not worth the effort, there are still some advantages one can get by submitting articles. Note though that for article syndication to be beneficial you should heed the following advice: 1. Write great articles – As always content is […]

Are Link Trains the Chain Letters of the Blogging Age?

You’ve probably seen several versions of a link train meme going around the blogosphere. Whether it’s supposedly optimized for certain web applications (e.g. Alexa version 1 & version 2, Technorati, MyBlogLog, Bloglines) or requires some other qualifier (viraltags, your name in your domain name, tech sites only, feed URLs, Z-listers only!), this method of sharing […]

Cheats To Get More Blog Subscribers

Blog visitors who love your website might want to receive regular updates. Might as well put an RSS subscription system. Luckily, most blogs (like WordPress) already have this built-in. You could also sign up to a feeds manager like feedburner for this and display a feeds stats counter. Your feed stats counter shows the live […]

Four Steps To Get More Traffic To Your Website Using MyBlogLog

You are probably familiar with MyBlogLog. This is a social networking site which allows you sign up and add a widget to blog so you can see your visitor’s avatars. I have used it on my blogs to see visitors coming to my web pages. Here’s how it works… When you sign up in MyBLogLog, […]

Techniques to Learn from the Probloggers

There are various approaches and techniques towards blogging. It has been preached that anyone can take up this new gift of technology but no one has an idea of what it can give them in return. It can give them a means of honing their grammar, build their confidence level and share to the world […]