Category: Blogging
How to show the top commentators on your blog
I recently decided I wanted to display the top five people who comment on my Fun, Crafts and Recipes blog, because of the fun food meme that’s hosted there every week. Off I went in search of a plugin or widget, and I found the Top Commentators widget for WordPress, which is exactly what I [...]
Paid blogging – Smorty
Continuing my mini series on paid blogging, I’d like to tell you about Smorty. Smorty is another popular company that offers both the chance to advertise on blogs and to blog for money. To blog for money there are some requirements to get your blog approved. Some of the mandatory ones are that your blog [...]
Paid blogging – PayU2Blog
Since this blog has covered how to install wordpress and some other related things, I thought it might be a good time to start a mini series of posts on paid blogging. The first one I will cover is PayU2Blog. PayU2Blog assigns bloggers opportunities, rather than bloggers choosing opportunities. When a blogger signs up he/she [...]
A new blog meme is born!
I have had a bunch of ideas buzzing around in my head. I don’t know if they’re good or bad, but at the time I come up with them they seem like a good idea. I did decide to start my very own meme. It’ll run weekly. It’ll have four questions, all pertaining to food. [...]
Want to show your blog visitors some love?
I figured I’d continue on where my previous post left off. The topic? Blog comments. I recently found a plugin called CommentLuv, created by Andy Bailey. CommentLuv takes dofollow to another level. Once activated, the plugin will visit the comment author’s own feed and display the title of their last post. So not only are [...]
Want to better manage your WordPress comments?
I recently wrote a brief article on the do follow comment attribute. Now I will tell you about another WordPress plugin that I use for my comments. I use the Better Comments Manager plugin on all of my blogs. Keith Dsouza created this handy plugin. Once activated, you are able to view comments left on [...]
Do you follow? I do follow.
This blog does follow. Are you wondering what following means? It has to do with – you guess it – links. Comment spam is a nasty problem that bloggers deal with. No follow means that a link in a comment shouldn’t be trusted, so it isn’t counted as a backlink. Now I write my blogs [...]
Google reader handles a feed you subscribe to read
Yes I made a corny rhyme. If you surf the internet a lot and/ or if you read blogs a lot, you’ve probably noticed everyone and their mother inviting you to subscribe to their feed. What’s an rss feed? RSS stands for really simple syndication. If you subscribe to an rss feed you will be [...]
Application to Blogsvertise
I decided when I started this blog that I did plan on monetizing it to a small extent. I have submitted this site to Blogsvertise for approval. If it is approved I will receive email containing offers for work from time to time. The offers might be to review a site or a product. If [...]
How to install WordPress using cpanel 11 on your own domain
This tutorial presumes you have never installed WordPress before on your own domain. This tutorial is written for those whose hosting includes cpanel. This is not the only way to install WordPress but it is how an easy way to do it and it’s how I’ve done it every time. First decide if you want [...]
