Archive for Blogging Tips
Here are some links with commentaries of some really good posts about blogging:
Guest blogger Tony Hung has been giving some excellent blogging advice at ProBlogger while Darren’s off. Today’s article on How to Market Your Blog in 2007 is one I printed off, read over lunch and made all kinds of notes and to-do lists for my blogs.
Go EgoSurf-ing: See How You Rank in Google
Posted by: | CommentsBilled as “ego surfing without the guilt,” egoSurf lets you see how you rank in Google for your name or keywords and tallies your points score too.
I don’t know how accurate it is (you could just simply search your keywords in Google) … but it’s a neat feature to check out. I used some keywords associated with my domain name to see how I ranked … and how far I need to go to get where I’d like to be in the search engine rankings (namely Google).
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Blogging Tip: Links in Posts are Better than Sidebar Links
Posted by: | Comments… especially if they’re bolded.
Here are some quick reasons why I think links are better in posts:
Blogger Now Offers Custom Domain Names
Posted by: | CommentsThis is great news for those of you blogging pastors (and others) who have a free hosted blog on Google’s Blogger.com — they’re now doing custom domain hosting!
What does this mean? Go plunk down a couple bucks for your unique domain name … and have it hosted for free by Blogger.
Blogging Tip: Backup Your Blog
Posted by: | CommentsMicah’s recent near disaster with almost losing his blog database reminds me of a great blogging tip: Backup your blog!
Here’s how with WordPress: Get the WordPress Database Backup plugin. This neat, handy plugin will email you a file of your database. I do this about once a month, but probably need to do it more often, especially considering I’m up to over 350 posts.
Here’s how with Blogger: The easiest way I know to do this is to have your posts emailed to you. This is how I backed up CCP before I switched to WordPress. To do this, in your Blogger Dashboard, click on “Settings,” then “Email,” and fill out the “BlogSend Address.” This won’t bundle everything like the WordPress plugin … but it does give you a record of each post.
