Saturday, 1 September 2012

8 Things To Consider Before Publishing A Blog Post ?

colorful blog word logoGuest Post - Our host is Charles Mburugu, in this post Charles has a checklist for before you publish a post on your blog.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Many people rush to publish posts, only to realize later that they used the wrong keywords, forgot to proofread or included broken links. Therefore, before pressing the ‘publish’ button, the following are some of the things you need to consider.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

25 Awesome Examples Of Alluring About Us Pages

Guest Post - Our host is Ben Rogan, In this post Ben has listed 25 amazing About Pages sure to Inspire you.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Whether you own a personal blog or manage an ecommerce platform; the ‘about’ section of your site should be the place where your personality really shines. However, so many sites succumb to the typically dry bios, which ultimately lack originality and a unique ‘voice’. Here’s a variety of sites in a variety of niches, which do a great job of breaking the mould; whether it be a witty write up, clever design, or a mix of the two.

Collection Of About Us Pages

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Monday, 27 August 2012

Twenty Must-Have Online Image Tools For Bloggers

Old Can With Image ToolsGuest Post - Our host is Goranka Radojcic, in this post Goranka goes through the best online image tools.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

The Web has definitely gone visual. Pinterest is the latest craze and trend. Various surveys and reports show that the site is a great source of traffic and incoming links to content creators. And the popularity of visual content is still growing. Savvy bloggers turn this visual trend to their advantage.

Here is the list of twenty free and nifty web tools that can help us to create more appealing imagery for spicing up our blogs and sites.
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How to Grow Your Readership When You Have a Niche Blog

Blog Button KeyboardGuest Post - Our host is Clare Evans, In this post Clare has some useful blog tips for niche bloggers.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

We’re all used to seeing post after post on how to grow your blogs readership. And while all these points are well and good if you blog about marketing, SEO, or design; are they really relevant to the niche bloggers amongst us?

A quick Google search will show you that there is a blog for pretty much everything. Whatever your weird, wonderful, or downright bizarre hobbies, there’s someone out there blogging about it. And these highly niche blogs all have a readership. So why are you finding it so difficult?

Niche Blogging Made Easy

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Friday, 24 August 2012

Disqus, Intense Debate And Livefyre - Use The Top Comment Systems On Blogger

Disqus, Intense Debate and Livefyre logosComments are one of the essential parts that make a blog a blog.Comments help everyone from Mommy bloggers to Fortune 500 company blogs receive reader and costumer opinion and feedback.So it's important you and your readers get the most from your comments system.

The default Blogger comments have come a long way over the last few years culminating in the introduction of threaded comment replies last year.But as a Blogger user you have other options and lots of them.In this post we will look at the three most popular comment systems available and they can all be used on your Blogger blog.The top three independent comment systems are Disqus, Intense Detate and Livefyre.Lets look at all three and how you can use them on Blogger.
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Thursday, 23 August 2012

Does Your Blog Have The Right Tone ?

Blog logo with fountain tip penGuest Post - Our host is Peter Nevis, here Peter asks some questions about the tone you set on your blog.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog. Introduction

As a blogger, unless your blog serves an online personal diary, building an audience is important. One way to build a loyal audience is to set the right tone for your blog. There is no one right tone for every blog. Being clear on the purpose of your blog and the audience you wish to reach can help you set the proper tone.Click Here To View Full Post >>

Quick Tip - Fix Images Breaking Out Over The Sidebar On Blogger

Orange Square 3D Blogger LogoAn Email I received recently for a Blogger user complained photos they added to posts were overlapping onto the sidebar.I facet I have seen this on a few blogs and have helped people with the problem.Fixing it is easy and only takes a minute.All we do is add a snippet of Css that makes sure photos and images can only be at maximum 98% the width of posts.So even if you added a huge image this code will restrict it from breaking out of the post body, Lets do it !
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