Blogging for tips?
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 11th Aug, 2008
Interesting development today with Salon launching a new facility to allow bloggers to make some money off their posts. The mechanism allows readers to leave a tip to the person who wrote the post, if they feel that they post has real value to them and if they’re feeling generous. It’s an interesting development [...]
10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic
Posted by: Owen on Saturday, 12th Apr, 2008
Great post down at ProBlogger with some great tips on how you can improve traffic to your blog. Here they are in a nutshell:
Create link clusters within your blog
Rework HTML title tags of trafficked posts
Invite your readers to connect with you on StumbleUpon and Facebook
Save your best posts for the best times of the week
Edit [...]
EntreDroppers - Share the love!
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 10th Apr, 2008
I’ve just finished putting the finishing touches on a WordPress Widget that lets you add a list of EntreCard droppers to your website. If you’ve never used EntreCard before, it’s a great networking tool for bloggers, where you can drop your Card onto another bloggers blog to let them know you’ve visited. It’s great fun [...]
Giving Zemanta a spin
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 27th Mar, 2008
Sherrilynne sent me a link to a plugin for Firefox called Zemanta. It sits in your browser and waits for you to start typing out a new blog post. Once you have typed in a few sentences it’s supposed to come up with a collection of different links and photos that can be used to [...]
WordPress v2.5 Sneak Peak
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 18th Mar, 2008
I’ve noticed that WordPress v2.5 has gone to RC1 and is available as for sneak preview. It’s a bit later than originally planned but I can understand how the development team are being a bit more cautious about this one as it’s a pretty fundamental change to parts of WordPress, particularly the admin backend. Here’s [...]
My Dad’s Blog
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 7th Feb, 2008
I’ve finally put up a blog for my father, Tony C. Cutajar. He’s been wanting one for some time now, particularly as he’s seen what other authors have been doing. He’s been influenced by some of the more Flashy ones, but I’ve pushed him down the route of something more accessible, powered by WordPress so [...]
Have blog, will make millions …
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 22nd Oct, 2007
Excellent article in SFGate entitled Yes, some blogs are profitable, very profitable. The article talks about how a number of highly profitable blogs on the Internet have really started out as a personal initiative, little more than a hobby or a curiosity. He cites Techcruch as an example of a blog that started out as [...]
