Blogging Tutorials

Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.

Difference Between Hits, Page Impressions And Unique Visits

Sometimes during my daily visit to new forums and blogs, I see people announcing about finally getting thousands of hits per month, giving the impression that their website has become very popular, then I look up at my Alexa toolbar and see that their above 7 million, and with page rank zero, which just doesn’t add up. Everyone knows that Alexa computes traffic rankings based on the amount of people that visit a website while having the Alexa toolbar installed, and while not everyone who visits has the bar installed, it is still weird that their rank is so bad and yet they are giving readers the impression that they are receiving thousands of visits per month by using the term “Hits”.

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Interview with Kim Castleberry from Just Ask Kim

My best advice is simply to get out here and DO it. Take action. In fact, take IMPERFECT action because its the only way to learn. Don’t be afraid of “failure” because there is no such thing unless you give up. Don’t make excuses for why you cant… make reasons for why you can! Be sure however, that what you are planning to create content on is something you are 100% passionate about and TRULY would do even if there were no financial reasons…continue reading…

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Understanding The Amount of Content You Need For Your Blog

Most people buy newspapers every day. Would we bother to get a newspaper everyday if the same news and the same articles were printed each day? We wouldn’t. However, the reason you buy a newspaper everyday is that newspaper companies strive continually to bring you the latest every day. Apply the same theory to your blog content. If you don’t bother to upload new content, your visitors won’t bother to visit. If you upload content only periodically, your blog won’t be a newspaper to your blog readers. It will be a periodical magazine.…continue reading…

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Promote Your Guest Posts The CommentLuv Way [Video]

Your most prolific writing can be found in guest posts that appear on blogs more popular than your own. If you’re smart, you already created some backlinks to the guest post on your own blog, and maybe you even went so far as to add banners on your sidebar or in your footer to show off your guest posting accomplishments. But there’s another way you can get backlinks for your guest post and judging by the title of this post, you probably figured out already that I’m talking about using CommentLuv…continue reading…

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Where Do You Get Your High Quality Graphics From?

I’m going to show you a list of services that I use to get my high quality media from and it’s absolutely free (you just have to be a little careful because some of the items are licensed under “Creative Commons” and to use them you might have to leave a link back to the author, but most of them you can use absolutely free (licensed under: Free For Commercial Use), so just make sure you read the item’s license description…continue reading….

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