7 Things to Avoid While Leaving A Blog Comment

May 30, 2008

Many people already wrote about the rules of blog comments before. Most of them, however, focused on the so called blog comments etiquette. That is, they told you how you should always add value to the discussion, respect the other people, never feed the trolls, be genuine and yada yada yada. While that advice is solid, I feel that it lacks some practical sense. There are other points that I see people doing almost daily when leaving comments, and they can be equally annoying for the blog owner and for the other readers and commentators. Below you will find them: 7 things to avoid while leaving a blog comment. 1. Using the bold or italic attributes to highlight your whole comment Blog comments can send good traffic to your website, and if you manage to catch people’s attention with your comments, this traffic might increase. Now, attention should be grabbed with a funny or interesting comment, and not by making your comment text bold or italicized. Read more

5 Blogging Traps You Need to Avoid

May 28, 2008

This is a guest post by Alan Johnson. As a blogger, there are more than a few mistakes which can and will make you waste valuable time and resources, so that identifying them in order to be able to take action is simply a must.
blogging trap
Let’s not waste another second and start with: 1. Neglecting the Comments Section Read more

Is Your Blog Full Of Gaping Comment Holes?

May 27, 2008

It’s been another day of blogging for you. You studiously posted your latest entry, hoping to hit the jackpot this time. You go to bed feeling great. After all, you accomplished something haven’t you. The next morning you get up only to find that your blog is eerily quiet. No comments! You grab your head, tear your hair out and shout “What the f#$@ just happened? Why are people not storming my blog. What is it I’m doing wrong?” Read more

Top 25 Celebrity Blogs

May 27, 2008

It is time to cover another niche on our Top 25 series. Celebrity blogs are among the most popular on the Internet. People just love gossip. As a result, they tend to receive a lot of traffic, and to be very profitable. I would guess that the lower blogs on our list earn at least $5,000 monthly, while the top ones should be over the $50,000 monthly figure. Keep in mind that the Top 25 takes into consideration only objective factors. The maximum score is 40, and the details about our algorithm can be found below the list.
#1 Perez Hilton 7 10 10 10 37
#2 TMZ 8 10 8 10 36
#3 ValleyWag 7 8 10 10 35
#4 The Superficial 7 9 10 9 35
#5 Dooce 7 6 10 9 32
#6 Defamer 7 7 9 8 31
#7 Gawker 7 9 5 10 31
#8 WWTDD 6 9 8 7 30
#9 Egotastic 6 10 7 7 30
#10 Jezebel 7 7 7 9 30
#11 Go Fug Yourself 7 7 10 6 30
#12 Pink is the new blog 7 6 9 7 29
#13 Celebrity Babies 4 7 10 8 29
#14 PopSugar 7 8 5 8 28
#15 Dlisted 6 9 4 9 28
#16 I am Not Obsessed 6 7 4 7 24
#17 Celebitchy 5 8 5 7 23
#18 Jossip 4 5 7 6 22
#19 PopCrunch 4 8 2 7 21
#20 HollyScoop 6 6 2 7 21
#21 Dotspotter 7 7 1 5 20
#22 Celebrity Gossip 5 7 1 7 20
#23 Hollywood Rag 6 6 1 6 19
#24 The Bosh 6 6 3 4 19
#25 Splash News 6 5 1 6 18
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Must Have Firefox Extensions For Bloggers

May 26, 2008

Ease of use and better performance has always been a matter of concern for the internet users when it comes to choosing the right browser. Mozilla’s Firefox is a preferred browser thanks to the presence and development of numerous plugins and support by a great community. The statistics says it all, Firefox Vs IE Firefox has also helped bloggers to a great extent. The reason being is the availability of some really cool extensions. I would like to share a few extensions which may change the way you blog and maybe help you generate better content on your blog! Taking different needs into account, we’ll explore some available firefox addons. Read more

Tagazee

May 26, 2008

Tagazee is the ultimate blog aggregator for people that likes to read and discuss about. Blog are organized in cool categories as: gadget, retrogaming,modding,sneakers,streetwear and so on!

WPGuru

May 26, 2008

WPGuru is a new site that is dedicated to the in's and out's of making a killer Blog using WordPress.

Ads? Try Content

May 26, 2008

Interesting post about how advertising is on the way out. People are finding new ways to disable, ignore, or avoid advertising. The future of advertising is in content/blogs/etc

12 Tips To Grow the Subscriber Base on Your Second Blog

May 23, 2008

One of the biggest benefits to having multiple blogs is the ability to transfer many of your readers from one blog to another. Building a significant audience is obviously not an easy task, so if you can get a boost in your subscriber count and number of visitors by having multiple blogs, you’ll be able to grow much faster than you could otherwise. Not only can this help in terms of numbers, but readers that subscribe to all of your blogs will tend to be more loyal and more responsive to you. There are several high profile examples of bloggers that are able to successfully transfer a large number of readers from one blog to another. When Skellie started her second blog, AnyWired reached 1,000 subscribers in less than a week. Leo Babauta had no problem attracting a large audience at Write to Done as well. I know many readers of Daily Blog Tips are in the position of owning or running multiple blogs. Within the past few months I’ve also launched a second blog, so this topic is particularly of interest to me. Through my experiences I’ve been learning some things and trying to observe what others are doing to succeed in this way. This post provides a summary of the things I’ve been seeing. Here are 12 tips for turning a subscriber of one blog into a subscriber of two blogs: Read more

Positive Space Blog

May 22, 2008

The rationale behind the recent redesign of the Positive Space Blog.

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