CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

How 24 Hours of Work Will Send Millions of Readers to My Blog
4th of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How 24 Hours of Work Will Send Millions of Readers to My Blog

I have written numerous times about how I use weekly email newsletters to drive significant traffic to my photography site (here’s why newsletters are good and here’s how to use newsletters). However lately I have started using a second type of newsletter that in time has the potential to send ...more
Blog Promotion
Beginner Blogger? Download this Free Report
2nd of December 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Beginner Blogger? Download this Free Report

If you’re a new blogger or one that’s been at it for a while but need a ‘boost’ you need to grab this free ‘Roadmap Report’ from the team at Become a Blogger – Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick. Yaro is the guy behind the very successful BlogMastermind blog coaching ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Is Your Blog Search Lijit [REVIEW]
28th of November 2008 Jeff Chandler 0 Comments

Is Your Blog Search Lijit [REVIEW]

Search on blogs is a relatively simple concept. You type in a few keywords related to a post and results are presented to you that are local to that blog. However, what if you could extend the functionality of the search function to go beyond your blog to cover the ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Site Build It – a User Review
23rd of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Site Build It – a User Review

One website building program that I have been consistantly asked about by readers over the last 12 or more months is Site Build It. While not a blogging platform as such it is a way of building a website for money and as a result I guess readers feel I ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How I added the Twitter ID field to comments on Twitip.com
22nd of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How I added the Twitter ID field to comments on Twitip.com

A couple of days ago I added the ability for those leaving comments on my TwiTip Twitter Tips blog to add their Twitter ID as well as their URL to comments. Since doing this I’ve been asked time and time again how we did it. In this guest post Sean ...more
Blog Design
Tell A Friend Through A Widget
21st of November 2008 Jeff Chandler 0 Comments

Tell A Friend Through A Widget

In this guest post Jeff Chandler reviews the TellaFriend Widget. In the ever increasing socialness of the web, everything from news to photos to videos are being shared. Outside of  ShareThis, I’m not to familiar with other sites or services that are exclusively centered around sharing items across the web. ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
What You Need to Know about WordPress 2.7
19th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What You Need to Know about WordPress 2.7

WordPress 2.7 is already released in beta and will go live shortly for all. I was lucky enough to get a demo of it at BlogWorldExpo a couple of months back and I have to say that I’m quite excited by what I saw. It is very different to look ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
16 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers
15th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

16 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers

This article was written by Ruchir Chawdhry. PS: Mac users can check out 14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers that Darren wrote a while ago. 1. Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is the king of all browsers. Limitlessly extendable, fast, and lightweight. If you’re still using any other browser ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How to Manage a Multi-Author WordPress Blog
12th of November 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Manage a Multi-Author WordPress Blog

More and more blogs seem to be transitioning to multi-author set ups and as they do I’ve been asked increasingly for information on how to manage these types of blogs. If you have a multi-author WordPress blog then you’ll want to check out a great post at Hongkiat – 35 ...more
Blogging Tools and Services