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Blog sidebar is one element of blog design that bloggers cannot ignore. However, blogger often face the few problems below with the sidebars on their blogs:
- Underutilized sidebars
- Flashy sidebars
- Never-ending sidebars
- Slow loading sidebars
- Sidebars in readers’ blind spot
Blog Sidebar Reconstruction Two Part Series
Ruchir touched on the downside of long articles with 7 Things I Hate About Blogging and it made me split this piece of blogging content into a two part article.
The first will be covering on step-by-step guide for a blog sidebar reconstruction and the next part (up next week) will be covering on blog improvement tips which you can use to enhance your sidebar and its usability on your blog.
If you have, seems to have or have doubts whether your sidebars have the few problems listed above, continue reading as this article and the upcoming one will present you with a packed guide and tips on how you can improve your blog by just tweaking the sidebars.
Continue reading Blog Sidebar Basic Reconstruction Tips [Part 1]
Sponsored reviews, paid reviews and paid posts is a popular way to make money blogging. In fact, it is the easiest way for bloggers to make good money from blogging as in the last few years, the launching of sites like PayPerPost, Sponsored Reviews and Review Me has popularized sponsored reviews writing as a blog monetization method.
However, not many are making fortunes from this type of blog monetization method because of the various problems that sponsored reviews writing can bring about. Last week, I got my first direct sponsored review request from SEO Meter and the below is the testimonial I received after the review is being published.
Wayne did a great job reviewing our site. First of all, his review was well phrased for the target audience (i.e., bloggers) and that makes the sponsored review much more effective.
Overall, the review was quite thorough and extensive. I’ll be happy to come back to his blog to order more reviews.
From the testimonial, I am glad that I have completed a good sponsored review.
Make Money Writing Sponsored Reviews Problems
Inability to find advertisers
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You have a great blog, with great traffic but for some reasons, you are not being approached by advertisers requesting for a paid review. You think that your blog is bad enough and it may be the reason why you are lacking interested advertisers. You continue building your blog but still, advertisers don’t show up.
Continue reading 12 Sponsored Reviews Blog Monetization Tips
Here is another edition of blogosphere summary which you must follow every week on this blogging guides blog as I will bring you news and buzz from every corner of the blogosphere so that you will not choke yourself with a long list of blogs in your bookmarks and RSS feed reader!
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Be well prepared as this might seem to be the end of your week but I will give you a whole lot more work to do for your blog and your blogging life as the blogosphere has never been quiet.
This week, I will be bringing you blogging tips on blog themes modification, social media, blogging networking and Entrecard woes. Also, I will be showing two grand contests with great (I mean really great) prizes launched and coming up respectively! Read on to find out more on what I have to offer on this week’s blogosphere summary.
Continue reading Blogosphere Summary Week #5
Last week, I failed to compile a Blogosphere Summary because I am busy preparing myself for the journey back to my hometown.
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This week is a little bit different. Apart from a celebration which I am really proud of, there are a few good reads from the blogosphere which I think will be beneficial for you! Also, I would like to wish every Chinese readers Happy Chinese New Year and let’s rake in more money in this new lunar year! Offer me Ang Pow money via PayPal if you think I deserve it.
Another Sphinn Social Media Success
Once again, one of my articles was featured on the front page of Sphinn. Networking With New Bloggers - Pros and Cons got 39 Sphinns and broke my own record for the number of social media votes on one article. Two weeks ago, Ask Your Blogging Questions At The Right Place got onto the front page of Sphinn with 31 Sphinns.
Continue reading Blogosphere Summary Week #4
Wordpress released version 2.3.3 after releasing version 2.3.2 just two months ago. Wayne Liew Dot Com is now running on Wordpress 2.3.3 as I always upgrade the plugins, softwares and blogging tools once there is an upgrade available.
Discussion on Wordpress "Frequent" Upgrades
I surfed through a few forums and blogs discussing this new Wordpress upgrade. I find that some of the Wordpress users are complaining about the frequency of Wordpress upgrades.
Wordpress is the best recommended blogging software around but still, the development pace and the release of upgrades left many of their users stay put at a few versions back, after being tired of all the upgrades.
Be honest with me. What version of Wordpress are you currently using to run your blog?
Upgrade and Don’t Blame Wordpress Development Team
I am on the "upgrade as it comes out" side and what will you be reading in this post is on why you should upgrade your Wordpress blog to the latest version.
Continue reading Wordpress Upgrades - Fuss or Must?
I started blogging at the age of 16, with a Blogger blog and every first experience of mine is still fresh in my memories. My first time of setting up link exchange deals, my first time getting all the dunks from the blogosphere, my first and last time trying to game Google Adsense and of course, my first time knowing bloggers of all sorts from all around the world.
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Blogging is attractive for minors even though only few that will eventually step on a success route. Carl Ocab, the 14 years old make money online blogger is the leading idol for kid blogger wannabes and statistics on How Old Are ProBlogger Readers? Poll Results also shown that young bloggers own a big piece of the blogger’s demography.
Blogging at a young age has never been easier than blogging when you are halfway through your lifetime or when you are an experienced corporate figure.
Blogging Difficulties That Young Bloggers Must Brave Through
Discouragement from parents
Most parents on Earth want their children to pursue a Degree or Masters program rather than becoming an online entrepreneur or blogger. Most of their excuses are such profession will not secure a fixed income and it is risky.
Continue reading Blogging Difficulties For Young Bloggers
For those who are blogging on a self-hosted blog, we normally host our blog on our own server as well so when the images are inaccessible, it also means that our blog might be inaccessible as well.
However, some bloggers do host their blogs on image hosting sites like Flickr, Photobucket and ImageShack or on any other external sites which are very prone to having broken images published on their blogs. Also, we might have mistyped the URL for our images sometimes.
A few weeks back, I introduced the Broken Link Checker plugin, which is capable of notifying bloggers blogging on a self-hosted Wordpress platform about the existence of any broken images found on the blog as well.
The Problems With Broken Images
A broken image is much more troublesome than a broken link as a broken image will have the following effects:
- Bad first impression for readers
- Fail your attempt to convey your information such as in a how-to article
- Ugly red X will be shown if your readers are using Internet Explorer
We are not monitoring and scanning through our articles 24 hours a day and we will not know that when our images will be missing from our blog.
Continue reading Wordpress Plugin: Clean Up Broken Images
The first month of January had just passed and I am regretful of the whole month for not doing extensively the supposed things listed out below:
- Not replying to comments promptly
- Not marketing the blog
- Not spending much time in producing articles
The above actions, if not done for a continuing basis, will lead to a blog death but I will not let this happen.
Bear with me, I am weighing a few things that had entered my life and I need time to get used with the brand new tempo. A few blockages that I have listed out in my 2008 blogging resolutions are all in their initial stage, which is the stage where to-dos are the most.
Anyway, I would plead all my readers to stay on as I have the following drafts saved in my Windows Live Writer:
- Blogging Productivity Tips Series
- The Positive Side of Networking With A New Blogger
- Marketing Aspects For Your Blog
- Prolific Commenting Strategy Revealed
If you would hate to miss the blogging tips above and more that are scheduled to come out of my idea pool, subscribe to Wayne Liew Dot Com RSS Feed to get the updates right after the blogging tips is up.
If you have followed my contents since I started blogging or you have read About Wayne Liew, you should know that I started blogging on Blogger, the free blogging platform owned by Google.
I am lucky because my aim is to start a brand new blog without having any transfer fuss. Of course, losing all the backlinks that my old PR5 Blogger blog is a huge sacrifice but life goes on and this blog is actually on a Google PR4 now. However, things might be easier if the value of the links from my old Blogger blog can be passed on to Wayne Liew Dot Com.
When a blogger is more devoted to a blog, there is a high chance that he/she will consider to host his/her blog on self-hosted Wordpress. Transferring your blog posts and comments are taught to you in the Wordpress codex but what if you want to redirect every permalinks of your blog posts on your old Blogger blog to this the posts on your new blog which are just transferred?
Continue reading Blogger To Wordpress: Keep Your Link Juice
If you scroll down a bit after the fold of Wayne Liew Dot Com, you should see a small Entrecard widget which I have made available due to some motivation I get from Victor of The Neotrepreneur and Deimos of AhKong.net.
I am still a bit skeptic about this banner exchange traffic generation widget but I thought I would give it a try since the whole blogosphere is hot about it.
Entrecard Testimonials By Other Bloggers
The following few will be a few quotes that I have collected previously from a few blogs on their thought about this traffic generating and money making tool.
First up, the quote by David Peralty of eXtra For Every Publisher on Why I Won’t Be Using EntreCard is what makes me doubtful on whether to sign up to Entrecard before this.
EntreCard is kinda dumb, and people that are using it, are just increasing the money that flows into the pockets of the guy that created it.
Once the buzz wears out, he will sell the site, pocket a decent deal of money, and leave most people with another useless widget on their blogs.
Continue reading Ongoing Blogging Experiment: Operation Entrecard
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