Choose Your Blog Title Carefuly

Choosing the right blog title is very important especially for newbie blogger.  It is  important  because there are billions of pages on the internet and or on world wide web and you need to know what niche you want to built and compete against. 

So there is big possibilities that our blog title will be the same as many blog title on the internet. So there will be a tough and tight competition between one blogger to another in getting the audience through search engine.

How to Show Post First Opening Line

Why start guest posting and how does it increase our blog traffic? Most blogger knows that there are two main things that realy can influence the progress of a blog that are content and traffic. This is where guest posting become very important.

The idea of giving opportunity for other blogger to post on your blog is a win and win solution for both guest writer and blog owner.

How To Blog is Like Marathon

How to blog is like running on marathon in a competition. Have you ever been to marathon run? If you do, then you will know that no one can run for marathon far and fast without completing their first 1km. 

Every runner start step by step then increase the distance and the speed to be able to compete in a marathon run competition.

How To Create Random Banner

Hi guys, have you seen on someone's blog a banner that keeps changing on one area? If you do I want to show you how to create random banner. This banner will changes every time someone open a new page or refresh a page.

This random banner is usually used to show a rotating ads banner, on one area and it changes according to time. Follow these steps on how to create random banner.

How To Add Logo On Feedburner Email For Branding

Every marketer agree that branding is one of the most important part in marketing. Branding will help our visitor to recall our business, companies or blog from their memory. Branding also help to increase visitor loyalty to our blog. Creating logo on your feedburner email will help you to brand your blog.

And if you have sign up for free updates via email from my tips and tricks blogger and you have receive the update,  on the top right corner of your email you can see Tips and Tricks Blogger B logo. The B logo is a branding to tips and tricks blogger and feedburner email subscription allow their user to put their website or blog logo in the email send to their readers. Check this picture bellow.

the Right Domain Name 12 Rules for Choosing

For 99% of the projects we take on, a domain is already part of the equation. However, in some circumstances, we've been called on to provice advice for naming a domain, either for a new blog, a company launch or even just a friend's website. Below, I've listed 12 tips I find indispensable when helping people select a great domain name.

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Why Your Readers Stick in Your Blog

It is said that content is king and marketing is its queen. But sometimes, content and marketing is not enough to make your readers stick in your site. Is something missing? Yes, one factor that a blogger have missed is his blog’s search engine friendly design.

There are many free blogger and wordpress themes on the internet, but when the time that you install it in your blog, you need to do some html programming works. That sometimes it is the cause of some blogger’s headache.

Well, not all bloggers out there are lucky to have the knowledge in web programming to make his/her website more beautiful that have an eye grabbing  design.

What should you do?

Finding a search engine friendly blog design seems crucial to do. Especially those times that we choose the theme that already have the reputation in the area of blog design and SEO.

This time I will share to you a search engine yet beautiful WordPress theme (if you are using wordpress). The man who create this theme made him to be the number 1 in google SERPS for the most hotest keyword term, “make money online“.

How To Get A Logo For Your Site

Many people email me asking in what items they should invest money first for their blogs or websites. I usually reply stating that the domain/hosting package should always be the first priority. Once you have that covered, 

Do not open new browser windows

When creating a link you can insert the<target="_blank">attribute to make that link open in a new browser window. I must confess that I used to do that mistake when I started blogging. The logic was quite simple: “I will add the target attribute so that when users click on external links they will not leave my website but rather have a new window opened”.

Speed Up Your Site: Optimize your CSS

Cascading Style Sheets make websites much more efficient because they allow the browsers to cache style-related information from the .css file directly, removing the need to read that information every time a single page is loaded. Even if Style Sheets are naturally more efficient than HTML tables you can still optimize the CSS code to make your website cleaner and faster.

Optimize the About page

Most blogs have an “About” page where they outline some general information about the blog and the author. Given that first time visitors are very likely to check the “About” page it would be a good idea to include some functional links on that page.

You could include, for instance, a link to the RSS Feed encouraging the visitors to subscribe. Below are some other fields that you could add to the “About” page:

Create a functional footer for your blog

If you navigate through the blogosphere you will realize that the vast majority of the blogs lack a footer. Even when they have one you will just find a copyright message there.

Most corporate or mainstream websites, on the other hand, do have a footer where you can find vital links for the site. As a result people are used to scrolling down to the footer whenever they have problems finding a particular information.

A functional footer for a blog should have at least two links:

• a link to the homepage
• a link to the RSS feed

You can also consider adding the following:

• an email subscription box
• a link to the Archives
• a link to the “About” page
• a link to the “Contact” page
• the recent posts
• the popular posts

50 Tips to Speed Up Your Website

The folks at InsideCRM created a nice compilation of tips to speed up your website, titled The Webmaster’s Turbo Kit.

There are all sorts of tips and tools included, from reducing the number of HTTP requests to compressing images and playing with caches. Here are six articles that I wrote on the topic some time ago (they were included on the list):

Speed Up Your Site: Use the height and width tags

This is a very important factor that many people (including myself until some time ago) tend to overlook. When you use images or tables on your pages you should always include the height and width tags. If the browser does not see those tags it will need to figure the size of the image, then load the image and then load the rest of the page. Here is an example of code containing those tags:

Speed Up Your Site: Reduce the HTTP Requests

When a user is opening your website every object on the page (e.g. images or scripts) will require a round trip to the server. Those HTTP requests will delay the response time of your site, and if you are loading dozens of objects this delay can add up to several seconds.

The first step to reduce the delay from HTTP requests is to reduce the number of objects on your website. Get rid of unnecessary images, headers, styling features and the like. If possible you can also combine 2 or more adjacent images into a single one.

6 Ways to Speed Up Your Site

The load time of websites is one of the most important factors affecting its usability; most Internet users will just skip a site altogether if it fails to load within a couple of seconds. Below you will find the summary of the “Speed Up Your Site” series. Those are simple yet effective ways to make sure that your website is running fast. You can click on each point to read the article with comments from the readers.

43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

There are several lists of web design mistakes around the Internet. Most of them, however, are the “Most common” or “Top 10” mistakes. Every time I crossed one of those lists I would think to myself: “Come on, there must be more than 10 mistakes…”. Then I decided to write down all the web design mistakes that would come into my head; within half an hour I had over thirty of them listed. Afterwards I did some research around the web and the list grew to 43 points.

The next step was to write a short description for each one, and the result is the collection of mistakes that you will find below. Some of the points are common sense, others are quite polemic. Most of them apply to any website though, whether we talk about a business entity or a blog. Enjoy!

11 Principles to Design a Great WordPress Theme

After a couple weeks of reviewing WordPress themes (and countless weeks prior judging designs in general) I have established the following guidelines for creating an awesome WordPress theme. At the very least, following these guidelines will get a stamp of approval from picky designers.

At the same time, pay attention to these things when choosing a theme. If the author went through the trouble to follow certain standards, I’ll bet it is quality work.

1. Validate your code

Dress Your Blog for Success

Have you ever heard the saying, “You should dress for the job you want, not for the one you have?” Obviously the point of this familiar line is that you need to prepare yourself and present yourself for the future that you want.

In a way, this saying should apply to your blog as well. Of course we’re not talking about a suit and tie, but rather the appearance of your blog that visitors are presented with the moment they arrive. This first impression can help readers to see you as the successful blogger you aim to be, or it can set you back if they see an unattractive look.

Dressing appropriately for a job shows that you are aware of your appearance, that you take your job seriously, and that you’re intending to go places. If you were starting a new job and your goal was to eventually be an executive of the company, you wouldn’t show up to work in jeans and a t-shirt. In order for others to see you for who you want to be, you have to present yourself as if you’re already there.