5 posts tagged “pro blogging news”

• Get your Red WordPress T-Shirts - now available.
• Chris G ponders the topic of Short Term Gains vs Long Term Value in blogging and observes some bloggers going for instant gratification - perhaps at the expense of long term benefits.
• One of my favorite blogs, Slacker Manager, has just been sold (to b5media) and it’s old owner (brendon) is looking for a new author. A great opportunity to take over the writing of a very established blog with a sizeable readership (over 8000 RSS subscribers).
• One Man’s Goal asks Does Monetizing Your Blog Cost You Readers?
• Web Worker Daily has a useful post for Firefox users with 6 Firefox Extensions for Web Workers. There’s a couple there that I’m going to try!
• One last question for the day - Scott Karp asks whether Newspapers should become local blog networks?

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• Read Write Web points to FoldSpy - a tool that allows webmasters to see what part of their site is above the ‘fold’ on different browsers. Quite a useful concept if you’re optimizing your ad positioning.
• Blogging Pointers has just finished a series looking at a variety of blog time saving techniques.
• Daniel is experimenting with just showing excerpts of posts on his blog’s front page and asks what you think about it?
• Web Worker Daily shares the Top Five Myths about Home-Based Web Workers - I’m sure I’ve heard all of them dozens of times (although #2 may well be true occasionally…. not the naked bit…. usually….).
• 10% of companies have fired an employee for a breach of blogging or message board policies - thanks to Michael for the tip off.
• Clever Dude has 50 Tips for New Personal Finance Bloggers (many of which would be good for all kinds of bloggers).

I’ve often wondered - but why don’t many online main stream media sites link when they refer to blogs or websites?

I find it slightly ironic - particularly when they write about new media/blogging.

I’m not sure if it’s laziness, fear of loosing readers from a site or if it’s just a different philosophy of web design - but I would have thought if a site was seriously interested in providing useful content for their readers that they’d hyperlink mentions of other websites.

Inspiration for this post - Business Week’s How Top Bloggers Earn Money (I resisted the temptation to just give you a dead link). Thanks for the mention in the profiles BW, it was a real surprise as I’d not heard anything about it until I saw Shoemoney write about it (he’d not heard anything about it either). I really should get a new set of head shots taken!

Bloggrrl had insomnia last night and so write herself a great little bloggytale - The Three Little Blogs: A Cautionary Tale - very creative.

Which little pig blogger are you?

I think I’ve been all three on different blogs over the years.

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• Redfly Marketing have released a firefox plugin that allows you to see what Google results are in different parts of the world for the keyword you’re searching for. As someone with blogs focussed upon geographic areas I can see how useful this would be.
• Steph writes about how using capitals to start words when writing URLs can help when promoting your blog
• Brian wants to know if Deleting Posts is wrong? - I’m not sure I’ve ever done it but don’t really have a problem with it like some bloggers would if the post becomes dated or you change your opinion on something or you’ve written something you later regret etc. I personally would probably just update old posts with new information to help readers see the journey I’ve been on with a post - but don’t really mind if others take the delete option. Head over to Brian’s to have you say.
• DoshDosh writes a good guide to optimizing your site for Google Images - the list is a good one, although I’d caution readers to approach it with moderation. I’ve got a few blogs that do very well with Google Images and don’t do all 19 things. Perhaps I could do better but the danger is becoming so obsessed by it that you can get distracted from other core blogging functions.
• ChrisG asks Does Your Site Frighten Readers Away? Great question to ask - I’ve been asking it myself of late and we’re just a few weeks away from a complete design overhaul here at ProBlogger to rectify some of the things I’m not satisfied with.
• Mark shares his 11 Blogging Lessons

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