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The Choice of Associating Your Name with Your Blog

Do you associate your name with your blog?

One of the choices that face bloggers when starting out is one around their own name and whether they will use it on their blog (and to what extent). There’s a range of options open to bloggers:

• Blog under your personal name and promote it prominently on your blog (this is what I’ve done here on ProBlogger)
• Blog under your personal name but don’t really promote yourself (this is what I’ve done on DPS - my name is on the about page but not much more)
• Blog under an alias and promote that name (Skellie does this on Skelliewag)
• Blog without any name on your blog at all - letting the content speak for itself

I’m sure there are other options - but these would be the most common. Read more

AdSense Introduce Reports for Link Units

I just logged into my AdSense account to check my nightly stats and found a new reporting option in the ‘Advance Reports’ section (pictured below). Now you can choose to view ‘Ad Units’ or ‘Link Units’ or ‘Both’. Ad Units are all of your normal ad units (text ads, image ads, video ads) and ‘Link Units’ are those little adlink unit ads that many bloggers use around their navigational areas that take readers to a second page of ads. it’s good to see these stats as they were previously all mixed into one in the advance reports unless you’d set them up in channels. Read more

PassionDuo WordPress Theme Released

It is time to update our WordPress themes collection, and with not one but three new themes. The PassionDuo theme has a clean style, rounded corners, space for advertising and a lot of room for your content. It comes in three color versions: red, blue and green. The theme was created by DesignSaurus. If you are planning to get a custom design, make sure to check out their competitive prices.

• See a live demo
• Download PassionDuo Red

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WP Security Scan Plugin Adds Peace Of Mind

If you ever wonder how secure your WordPress installation really is, then this Plugin might fascinate you enough to download it. The WP Security Scan Plugin will give you some great insight into your security zone. What the Plugin does:

• It scans your WordPress installation for file and directory permission vulnerabilities
• It recommends corrective action
• It also scans for general security vulnerabilities.

Here are some screen shots from the authors page: Read more

Geoblogging - How to Geotag Your Blog

The following post on geotagging blogs is by Rob O’Daniel from 2Dolphins. Remember the old adage, “The three most important things in real estate are location, location, and location?” Soon enough, that saying may even hold true in the virtual landscape of the Internet. Geotagging, or the process of adding geographic information (latitude, longitude, & other positional data) to almost any digital content is a quickly-growing trend. Once geotagged, media such as websites, blog posts, RSS feeds, images, or videos can be easily displayed on an online map or cross-referenced with other information about that area or location. Read more

Making Money as a Side Effect of Blogging (and a New Breed of Blogger)

Seth has some interesting things in response to the question - ‘How do I make a lot of money blogging?’ here.

“The best bloggers make money, but mostly as a side effect, not as a direct result of setting out to use a blog to make a profit. It’s just too long a ramp up time, too frustrating and too uncertain to be the best path to make a living.”

A few thoughts: Seth’s described my own experience of making money from blogging pretty well. I didn’t set out to do it at all. I blogged for a year before it even crossed my mind and even then it was initially an experiment (just like adding many blogging tools and features was for many of us in those days). Read more

8 Addictive Habits of Bloggers

As bloggers we face a wide variety of task each day in managing and building our blog. Productivity and efficiency is a must, especially for part-time bloggers. Standing in the way of productivity is a number of habits that tend to be extremely addictive and time-consuming for most of us. I think I have personally struggled with each of these at one point or another, and I’m sure that you can relate. Let’s take a look at each of these habits and how you can overcome the addiction. 1. Obsessing Over Subscribers The number of subscribers to a blog is probably the most common measuring stick for determining the blogs impact, importance, or success. As a result, all of us make an attempt to gain new subscribers on a daily basis, and many times this turns into more of an obsession than a goal. Read more

Website Bg Images

Background images are one of the visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen for the website.

CSS Selecting

First in a series of "CSS do's and dont's" articles on Css Globe. This one is a guide to proper css selecting

5 Ways Social Media Can Enhance Your Presentation Skills

Do you have to present at meetings at work? Or perhaps you are building your personal brand and platform as a professional speaker? Maybe you have a desire to get in front of the media on TV or radio? One of the great ways that I’ve developed my skills in presenting and in speaking to the media is not through attending courses but by two other approaches:

• watching other presenters
• speaking and presenting often - not always to groups of 200 or more people, but often to small groups of less than 40 people.

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