Blogging tips, tricks and tools – make money blogging

If you have a blog that you use to provide a residual you will be familiar with the biggest problem bloggers face… the tedium of keeping a blog current with fresh content. The process of updating a blog is extremely time consuming… especially if you’re maintaining more than one.
The answer….
Free Automated blog posting software
There [...]

While allowing comments on your blog is a valuable way to keep content fresh (and keep search engines busy re-indexing your blog) the issue of comment spam is one of the most frustrating aspects of blog ownership.
If you’re a blog owner then I’m sure you’re well acquainted with comment spammers… all those annoying commenters who [...]

Apart from finding content to update your blog, the next most frustrating aspect of blog ownership is all those spammy comments that you inevitably receive. You know the crap I’m talking about, the pharmacy sites, viagra, pornography etc. It wouldn’t be so bad if that were what your site were about. But [...]

There are a huge number of excellent plugins available to make blogging simpler and more profitable. When it comes to SEO plugins I recommend the ‘All in One SEO pack’ as one of the best wordpress plugins available.
The All in One SEO pack allows you to add several crucial features to each post;

Title
Description
Keywords

In effect, [...]

One of the easiest ways to get additional backlinks for any website or blog is to include social bookmarking icons on the page. Doing this allows your visitors to directly bookmark your site if they are interested. Each time your site is bookmarked you are effectively given a free backlink to improve your [...]

Many people ask the question; “What are the best wordpress plugins to use in my blog?”
Of course, there’s a HUGE choice of plugins out there designed to perform just about any conceivable task on your blog. Which ones you install is entirely up to you. However, there is a small group of plugins [...]

One of the biggest banes in the existence of a blogger is the amount of comment spam. Even a small, new blog can be receiving 10 spam comments per day (I know, that’s how much this blog was receiving with only one or two posts… sheesh!)
But did you know that the vast majority of [...]

Blogs provide an excellent way to earn an online income. Whether through affiliate programs, displaying adsense advertising (or one of the alternatives) or by selling products, either your own or products that you have resale rights to.
Most people are now aware of this and blogs are popping up all over the place as a [...]