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One For The Bloggers

Tony Williams — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:49:00 +0000

If you’re an avid blogger, then you really should check out the Bloggers Face-Off series from DailyBlogTips.

Every Tuesday Daniel features a weekly short interview with top bloggers, which provides useful insights into how they’ve become successful bloggers, and more importantly for some people, how they’ve managed to generate money.

The series was kicked off in style with Darren Rowse of Problogger Vs Jeremy Shoemoney. This week’s Face-Off features my good buddy Everton Blair Vs JohnTP, and previous Face-Offs include:

Some big names from the blogging community in there, and lots of useful insights can be gleaned from the interviews.

Donate Money To Charity To Generate Backlinks

Tony Williams — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:40:48 +0000

Following Everton’s lead, I checked out my future PageRank. According to this tool the Page Rank of One Tip A Day will be increased from a measly 1 to a respectable 5!

I’ll be chuffed if this proves to be correct as I’ve only just started focusing on generating links to this site. I haven’t purchased any links yet for this site, but I have listed One Tip A Day in a few directories. One thing I plan to do next month to generate backlinks is to donate money to charities.

How is this generating backlinks I hear you ask? Well, many charity sites list the names and websites of donors. So, not only will I be able to buy cost-effective links on high ranking sites, I’ll hopefully be giving my money to good causes!

If you’re looking for other ways to generate backlinks then check out this comprehensive guide.

Simple Way To Improve Search Engine Listings

Tony Williams — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:21:03 +0000

One of the rules I’m trying to stick to on this site is to only feature tips that are simple and quick to implement. Today’s tip is no different and is an important one for anyone who runs their own personal blog or any other site.

Most blog and site templates (including this one until I fixed it) place the hyperlink to the permalink for the article in the articles homepage. However, this causes problems for certain search engines including Google, when they crawl their site. This was confirmed in the excerpt below from an email from Google:

In order for Google News to include articles, each article must hyperlink to a page dedicated solely to that article, as your site does. Yet, when the headline on this page is an active link, we often have difficulty crawling…Making these headlines regular text, not links, will increase the likelihood that our crawler will index all of your your articles.

This will come as shocking news to most bloggers. Luckily, as promised, there is a simple solution. Instead of adding an active link to your titles then just place a small icon with the permalink next to the article title. I’ve just done this on my homepage and I’m fixing my other templates as we speak.

Now as search engines crawl my site they’ll be able to locate easily my permalinks to my full articles, which will now get fully indexed and available on search engines. I can’t wait for the extra traffic!

Best WordPress Engagement Plugins: Make Users Read More Posts

Tony Williams — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:18:57 +0000

I loved this list so much I submitted it to Digg. Everton from Connected Internet has posted a great article that walks users through the best mods you can make to a WordPress blog to drive Engagement – i.e. get users to delve deeper into your blog.

I’d heard of some of the plugins before, but I’m going to try out some of the new ones next week when I have some time. Regardless of whether you are new to blogging or an old-timer, you should definitely read this post.

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