Archive for 'Blogging'

Free Wordpress Themes

April 5, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

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Free Wordpress Themes are a way of life in the wordpress community. Besides the obvious reasons of owning your content and having creative control over what you wish to publish one of the major benefits of using wordpress on your own domain is the sheer volume of free themes available for download.

If you’re looking for free themes please click here.

Try out a whole variety of free ones before you finally settle on one and tweak it a bit. Remember part of having a free theme is leaving links at the bottom to those who sponsored the theme. If you don’t want those links and really like a particular artist I’d recommend you contact them and ask if they can quote on a custom theme. Custom themes set your blog apart but it’s good to know you don’t need to rush into one. You can use a free one …

Benefits of Participating on Blogging Forums

March 31, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

This is a guest post written by a friend of mine that ironically I met at the forum named bobbytoat. His blog can be seen here.

Let’s not waste time introducing blog forums. Instead, we shall look at the 7 major benefits you will get by participating on forums:

1. Get FREE exposure and visitors to your blog

This is rather obvious, a blogging forum is an excellent place for link baiting. You can get your links noticed by discreetly inserting links of relevant posts into suitable threads, start a new discussion thread with one of your recently written articles as the point of discussion or just flaunt your links in your signature. Want to attract even more attention to yourself? Get attractive avatar and insert your feed’s headline animator in your signature!

2. You can trade and take up jobs on forums

Many bloggers who have trouble …

Thoughts on FilterMyRSS Service

March 29, 2008 | Author: Dave | Filed under: Blogging

Bloggers and freelance writers have a problem that no other set of writers has ever had to face.

Too much information.

If you’re like me, your RSS feed reader is almost embarrassing. Whenever I see a great blog or website, I subscribe to its feed, whether it be for research purposes, to get ideas for articles or just for fun.

Well, if you find yourself spending more time going through your feed reader looking for information and ideas than you spend actually implementing them, there’s a better way to do it…FilterMyRSS.

This is an incredibly simple idea that does only one thing, but does it well…it allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds in such a way as to only receive feed updates that relate to your chosen keywords. The best way to understand it is to use it, so it’s example time!

The RSS feed address for HomeBizBlogger is http://feeds.feedburner.com/HomeBizBlogger. I already …

Bloggers Beware - Phishing and Scams

March 21, 2008 | Author: Dave | Filed under: Blogging

If you’ve had an email account for longer than twenty-four hours, you’re probably familiar with “419” (or Nigerian, since that’s usually the country of origin) scams and phishing in general. For those of you that aren’t, here’s an example of what I’m referring to, taken from my own email account over the last week:

“THE PRESIDENCY OFFICE OF THE CHIEF AUDITOR TO THE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL CREDIT SETTLEMENT DEPT CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA AND THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB ATTENTION BENEFICIARY: THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFY ON YOUR CONTRACT /INHERITANCE FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS GIVING TO YOU IN RESPECT TO YOUR CONTRACT / INHERITANCE PAYMENT. SECONDLY …”

These are known as “419 scams” because that’s the section of the Nigerian penal code that covers this type of fraud.

And …

30 Day Blogging Challenge Underway

March 17, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

I was online the other day as I am most days when I came across something that I found incredibly interesting. It’s called the 30 Day Blogging Challenge.

The idea was conceived at least as far as I know by Alan  at Affiliate Confession. The premise is to make a minimum of 1 blog post per day for  30 days or more.  Supposedly after you’ve done this for 30 days it will become instilled as a habit (a good one at that), your writing will be much more fluid as you’re used to it and of course your blog traffic should increase tremendously. Why would people take the time to visit your blog daily if you don’t update it daily? (Makes a lot of sense doesn’t it?).

I learned about this roughly a month or so ago but have not been able to partake due to work obligations; traveling etc. …