Should you monetize your blog or not? Every blogger has an opinion on this issue.  Some people are fanatical about the latest trends and are quick to try the latest techniques, others implement a more basic strategy, some decide not to monetize their blogs at all.  Then you have the bloggers who are never happy with their monetization strategies and are on a constant quest for new ways to earn their cash....

Is Twittley better than Tweetmeme? I guess that answer depends on what you are evaluating the Twitter services on.  From a bloggers perspective, I can say that Twittley is better than Tweetmeme and I will tell you why.  First, let me start off by explaining what Twittley and Tweetmeme are.  They are both Twitter tools that combine an element of social bookmarking with the power of Twitter.  Both services...

It is Sunday and time again for the recap of the top 10 blog posts from around the blog-o-sphere for the week ending June 28th 2009.  BTW, I am still looking for a catchy name for this weekly series.  If you can think of something cool, drop me a comment and if I use it I will pay you 10 bucks via PayPal. Newest WordPress plugins - Serradinho John Sullivan does some market research and ponders a new advertising...

When I was playing around with different themes last week, I was also researching various plugins and widgets.  I was surprised at how difficult it was to find a quality Twitter widget for my blog.  I tried out a couple but they only displayed my tweets and nothing else.  Finally, I came across what I think is the best Twitter widget out there right now.  The widget is available at Feedjit.com/twit . ...

This is post # 100 and I thought it would make sense to take a look back at some of the most popular and most informative posts so far.  I have broken this down to the top 5 posts in each of the four categories that I blog about: Promoting your blog Promote your Blog Like a Product Addicted to Stats? Promote your Blog Instead Insane Blog Titles to Increase Traffic Top 10 Free Blog Directories Top 10 Do Follow...

It is hard to believe that I am writing post # 99 and already 4 months into this blog.  I am in the middle of creating a special one hundredth post for tomorrow that will highlight the best blog posts so far.  I figured in this post, I would talk about the progress of this blog up until now. 99 posts and 697 comments.  I am so grateful to all the people who have visited so far and took the time to drop a...

Let’s face it, 140 characters is just not enough space to get your point across sometimes. Luckily, there is an easy new service that will allow you to add video tweets to your stream. The service is called TwitVid

Each week I visit hundreds of blogs, some are good some are bad and most are somewhere in between.  The same is true of the blog designs.  There are some really awesome blog designs and there are some awful blog designs

When I switched my theme a couple of days ago, it required me to go back into a lot of posts and change the fonts and make other cosmetic adjustments.  While I was editing the posts for aesthetic purposes

I am starting a new weekly series today that I will feature every Sunday. I am assuming this will evolve over time, but right now I will be highlighting the top 10 blog posts that I have read during the week