How are you including videos on your website? Are you still using flash to embed them or have you switched to html5? With the state of the internet today it makes sense to use the video playback features already included in modern web browsers and revert to flash playback only when necessary. This is true [...]
Blog Tips and Blogging Methods
Information related to blogs and blogging in general. You can find all sorts of tips here that will elevate your blog to the next level.
Earlier tonight I had the pleasure of sitting in on Emily Grosvenor’s class on Beginning Blogging. Emily is a talented writer who runs a great blog at Desperately Seeking Salem, so I knew she would do a bang up job guiding others into the rewarding and frustrating world of blogging. A point that often comes [...]
Dwight Schrute knows a thing or two about beets and how to sell them. Dwight’s statement about placing the most attractive beets on top as a way of enticing people to pull in to his beet stand is a principle that can be applied to blogging as well.
Ken Griffey Jr. is without a doubt, one of the greatest players to ever play the game. His recently announced retirement from baseball instantly transported many people into the land of remeniscence, myself included. Being from the Northwest, I have been a Mariners fan for nearly all my life. I remember when Griffey joined the [...]
Do you want to know a really low key way to boost traffic to your blog while also increasing your overall visibility to others? The answer isn’t something magical or complex; it is something you can easily accomplish with just 10 minutes of effort every day. Just like how linking out to other blogs is [...]
Last month I decided to try something new, and I signed up at Text-Link-Ads in order to get paid for publishing links to other websites from my site. At first it looked like an easy way to do a little monetization of this blog, but in retrospect I would have to say it wasn’t worth [...]
I get my share of ridiculous spammers commenters on this blog as well as on other blogs that I own or manage. After bottling my thoughts on this for so long, I’ve decided to say a thing or two about this. I love flattery as much as the next person, but when you leave a [...]
I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while this weekend and he expressed to me his plan to start a blog and jump into this “new blogging thing”. He sounded pretty enthusiastic about it and we talked a little about how he was going to go about getting into blogging. He had [...]
I don’t remember how I heard of zimbio.com, but a few years back is when I started using them. If you don’t know, Zimbio is a collaborative online magazine with thousands of contributors. People either syndicate their blog content with them or directly write articles for publication. It is a very popular site that receives [...]
Off the top of your head, name three blogs that you follow religiously. Are you done? Now give the reasons why you follow them. Chances are good that the reason you keep visiting these blogs is because you continue to receive something of value from them. The value you receive from these blogs can come [...]