This comes a day late since “tomorrow” after my previous post discussing the duplicate content problem on blogs (which was published on the 17th) would be yesterday, but that’s what you get in World Cup season, eh?
Anyway, let’s get back to the main issue at hand for today. I said earlier that while many […]

As was announced earlier, The Blog Herald (TBH) has undergone an “extreme makeover” design-wise - switching from its relatively drab prior three-column design to a newspaper-ish multi-column above-bottom-fold layout courtesy of Chris Pearson. Yeah, that’s a mouthful all right. So, you’ll have to check out the site itself to understand what I mean.

Remember when we […]

Traffic, traffic and more traffic. That’s what you’ll get if you somehow manage to coax Google News into accepting your blog. Of course, that blog has to fit a whole load of requirements first, which I never knew until reading a recent post over at Search Engine Roundtable.
P.S.: One Google News requirement is that, “The […]

In recent days, the issue of duplicate content is getting far more attention than it used to, sparking some enlightening discussions over at forums such as WebMasterWorld. For those out of the loop, duplicate content is primarily an SEO problem, where it is believed that search engines (SEs) penalize sites that contain too much duplicate […]

While randomly surfing the web recently, I came across an AdSense vertical link unit blended in a way I’ve never seen before. I’m not sure how unique it is to you since you could have either seen it (the site I found it on, Blogger Templates, is very popular) or done it before, but here’s […]

I’m a fan of three column themes since I feel they allow more space for navigation, categorisation and of course, advertising. But they have the downside of making your blog seem more cluttered than it should be, and have been rumored to have lower overall CTR (clickthrough rate) on adverts compared to two column themes.
Actually, […]

We’ve heard lots about lousy hosts that suspend hosting accounts without a tinge of guilt, or good hosts with just some lousy luck - crashed servers, bombed hard disk drives or corrupted databases. I’ve even had some friends who’ve lost weeks of posts due to database problems or sheer carelessness.
So, shouldn’t every blogger, especially WordPress […]

The Blog Herald recently published a guest post by Alex Morganis on how to be a better blogger. Basically, Alex touches on three main aspects: Traffic, content and design - most of which are targeted at beginner bloggers (who I believe require tried, tested and working advice).
As a result, I must take this opportunity to […]