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What Are Tags and How To Use Them in WordPress

Tag is a very common word used in the blogosphere, but what does it really mean and how (or why) do you use it? My definition of tags:

Tags are descriptive keywords used to label something.

But here’s the “correct” definition according to Wikipedia: Read more

Google’s Paid Clicks Getting Flat?

ComScore recently released a report confirming that Google’s paid clicks for February were only 3% higher than the same period last year. If we then consider that this February had one extra day, the real growth is practically 0% year over year. There is also a 3% declined month over month (February had 515 million paid clicks, while January had 532 million). One point that is not clear is if those numbers are coming from Google’s search network alone or from a combination of the search and the content network. The latter case would probably be bad news for website owners and bloggers alike. Regardless, there is a clear flat trend on paid clicks. Could this be the delayed impact of Google’s latest changes on the ad formats and clickable areas? Or the casual Internet surfer is just getting used (and blind) to contextual advertising? Time will tell. Source: Silicon Alley Insider

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20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider

When you use WordPress you’re given the choice when publishing between doing it as a ‘post’ or as a ‘page‘. Posts go up on your blog while ‘pages’ are static pages that you can publish without it having to go up on your blog. There’s a lot of reasons why you might choose a post over a page or a page over a post (that’s for another post) - but today I thought I’d highlight a few ‘pages’ that I have here on ProBlogger as examples of pages that bloggers might want to develop to promote their blog to different groups of people. Some are more essential in my mind than others but all have been helpful in the development of my own blogs. 1. About Page - perhaps one of the most common uses of the ‘page’ function on WP is the good old ‘about page’. Having an about page is essential in my mind as it gives new readers to your blog a snapshot of who you are and why they should subscribe to your blog. This is the page that I go to every time I hit a new blog - if they don’t have one it decreases my chances of subscribing significantly. Read more on adding an about page to your blog. 2. Contact Page - I’m amazed how many bloggers don’t have any way of contacting them on their blog. While I understand the temptation not to have one you could be missing out of wonderful opportunities by not giving readers, potential partners, press, other bloggers a way of contacting you. Read more on Why your blog’s readers should be able to contact you. Read more

Vector rainbow

Blue background vector rainbow in high quality EPS file.

You can also use it as a desktop background or you can select the awesome shapes from the illustration thanks to the vector format.

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A Year Ago on DBT: March 28

Inspired by yesterday’s guest post I will write some “A Year Ago” posts once in a while. Most of our content is timeless, meaning that even the tips and advice that we published one year ago should still be valid and useful. Secondly, I am sure that we have thousands of readers that were not around one year ago, so they will have a chance to dig on our archives. Finally, it is also fun to see how our tips and writing evolved over the time. Below you will find some interesting posts from the week that ended on March 28, 2007.

• 7 Ways to Promote your Site with a Bit of Money: Some time ago I wrote an article titled “Are you marketing your blog?” where I argued that there is a myth around the Internet that bloggers and webmasters should not spend money on advertising. The myth comes in great extent from the success stories of people that managed to create popular websites without spending a dime on advertising or other paid promotion techniques.
• Always install Wordpress on the root directory: Unless your blog is a secondary part of an existing website you should always install Wordpress on the root directory. When I created my first blog I used an automatic Wordpress instalation that my web hosting company offered, but the standard installation was done on “www.domain.com/blog”.
• Speed Up Your Site: Use a slash on your links: When a server opens a link in the form of “http://www.domain.com/about” it will need to figure what kind of file or webpage is contained on that address, wasting time on the process. If instead of using that link you include a slash (”/”) at the end like “http://www.domain.com/about/” the web server will already know that the link points to a directory, reducing the time to load the page.
• Avoid tricks when placing ads: When placing ads on your site do not try to trick the reader. By trick I mean any technique that will deceive the reader into thinking that a link or image is not an advertising when it actually is.
• Post excerpts on the Homepage?: Lately some blogs are starting to display post excerpts instead of full posts on the Homepage (e.g. Pronet Advertising). There are both advantages and disadvantages with this method.
• Are you marketing your blog?: There is a myth around the blogosphere that bloggers should not spend money on advertising for their blogs. It is founded on the success stories where established bloggers affirm that they achieved thousands of dollars in monthly revenues without spending a dime on advertising or other marketing techniques.
• Customize the Feedburner Chicklet: This tip is easy to implement but it can be very useful if you are trying to customize the text on your Feedburner Feed Count Chicklet. Just look into the HTML code that Feedburner provided you for the Chicklet and locate the address of the image.

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Heart animations

Beautiful vector hearts in one single AI file.

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Quickly Build an Abstract Background of Colored Bars

Oftentimes there’s a need for a quick but unique design. In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you a short but attractive way to create a graphic for backgrounds, wallpapers, greeting cards, designs, and all that other good stuff. You will learn a simple photoshop trick that you can easily manipulate for your daily needs.

Step 1

First off let’s start by creating a new document and applying the oh so obligatory clouds (Filter > Render > Clouds). Read more

Css Progress Bar

Animated progress bar created with nothing but css.

WOMM-U 2008!

Learn Word of Mouth Marketing for the top professionals. Including, The New York Times, Dell, Jaffe Juice, and much more!

20 Photoshop Brushes

Awesome 20 photoshop brushes with elegant letters, circles, abstract, paper, superstar, floral, ink splatter, ornament brushes, messy brushes and many more.

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