Blogging Tips
Categories or tags or both?
It is easy to become confused about the role of each of these Wordpress features, so let’s look briefly at the role of each.
Categories afford the opportunity for broad categorization of posts. Much like the categories in a web directory, Wordpress categories allow bloggers to choose compartments in to which to sort posts based on their principal content. It is [...]
When do I add advertising to my blog?
Scanning the ‘net you’ll see the entire gamut of ad configurations on blogs. From single page/post blogs awash with ad blocks and affiliate links, to blogs of many hundreds of pages/posts without a single ad.
The choice to include paid advertising on a blog should not be made lightly as it can impact user experience and [...]
10 blogging tips to build a successful blog
The techniques used to build a successful blog are ever-changing as new methods linearly supplant the old, and innovative methods of driving traffic to blogs open up new frontiers to the blogger.
Here is a brief survey of ten proven methods for constructing a successful blog.
i. Add content to your blog frequently and consistently. If possible, maintain [...]
Blogger’s Block
Akin to writer’s block is blogger’s block. We all know the symptoms: you sit at the compter staring in to a blank new post window. What will you write? How will you start? Oh, wait a minute, I haven’t checked my email in the last 15 minutes. I really must do that first. And what [...]
Google’s fast indexing
For a while now, Google has been indexing blogs at an incredibly fast rate. After publishing an article, googlebot visits almost instantaneously. However, until recently I had not taken notice of how soon the post is exposed in the index. It’s one thing having the page visited, it’s another to have it appear in search [...]
How to Disable WordPress Post Revision
WordPress is a sophisticated, feature-rich, ever-evolving blogging engine. However, as the author of largely single-author blogs, I find one of the recent additions to its feature set unnecessary, namely the post revision feature. When using this feature, WordPress occasionally alerts me that there exists a previously unsaved copy of the post I am working on that looks [...]