Guest Posts

All of the guest posts on Basic Blog Tips are in this category. I also included a post highlighting all of my guest posts.

How to Deal With Traffic Drops Post PANDA

57 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

Whenever Google changes its algorithm (known as the Google dance), some sites see a traffic drop, others see a traffic increase, and the majority see little or no difference. So how do you deal with traffic drops during this difficult time? The “content-scraping” and “duplication-detecting” changes that Google made to its algorithm during December 2010-January 2011 affected many websites. …continue reading…

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Blogger Interview: Brian Hawkins of Hot Blog Tips

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Just last week I wrote a piece reflecting on life before blogging and haven’t decided if I’ll make it public yet but it really made me realize just how long it’s been. I’d like to thank Ms. Ileane for taking the time to interview me and I’d especially like to thank her readers for taking the time to read it. I’m a big fan of Basic Blog Tips and I’m so glad we live in a time, and work within a niche, that blogs like ours can become allies rather than cold competitors.…continue reading…

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Six Reasons Why I Wont Be Blogging on Your Site

Six Reasons Why I Won’t Be Blogging on Your Site

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I don’t mind guest posting on new blogs that don’t have a lot of comments. I’ve been there – and still am with some of my newer web properties. What I DO mind is when comments are disabled on every post. What’s the matter – don’t you want to talk to other bloggers? I do. Half the fun of blogging is finding out what other people think or have experienced about the topic you’re discussing.…continue reading…

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Five Ways Twimbow Helps You Improve Your Twitter Experience

46 Comments / Guest Posts, Social Media / /

On Twimbow, you can assign Gmail-like color labels to users. Unlike Twitter lists (that you can use on Twimbow, as well), color labels lets you quickly identify a user or a group of users among the others and quickly filter them in / out in your timeline. By default, there are three labels: family, friends, coworkers. If you want to create a new label, click on the rainbow-colored icon on the top-left corner of the central column (home buzz) and click on “new label”. Then you can choose the name and the color.…continue reading…

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Facebook Timeline – Is Time Running Out

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Facebook Timeline is a new way to show you profile and as the name suggest it changes your profile in a time driven series. It shows activities from when you join Facebook to till now on a time scale (it can show activities for your whole life, you just need to go back and add these to your timeline). To create an app your account needs to be verified either through mobile or credit card. Click on Create app and give an name and namespace for your new app.…continue reading…

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