Review: Blogging Tips – Taking your Blog to the Next Level
May 5, 2007 | Comments (6) | Filed under: Reviews
Whenever I have a free moment, I usually find myself doing one or two things in relation to Bookmark Bliss. The first is reading my backlog of new articles from my subscribed sites in Google Reader and the second is browsing both my MyBlogLog and comment community for interesting sites and content.
It was while visiting the sites of comment posters that I came across a new blog called Blogging Tips. The primary author of the site, Kevin, contributed to our discussion on posting frequency and its effects on your site. I was impressed by his comment and willingness to post contrary to the status quo and ever since have been a regular subscriber to his blog. So, when I got a ReviewMe request this morning for his site, I was actually pretty excited to do a review and to help introduce his site to our great community of readers.
Take your Blog to the Next Level!
Blogging Tips is a brand new site (first post is March 12th, 2007) but already, in just under 2 months, has posted more than 100 articles on how to take your blog to the next level. The site covers topics that every blogger needs to know ranging from blogging software to promoting and monetizing your blog.
Each tip is personalized to Kevin’s own experience running several other sites which makes them easy to read and put to good use on your own site. Not only is the site great for the beginner, there are many useful tips that can help out even the most seasoned of blogger. Here’s an article sampling to help you get a feel for what Blogging Tips is all about:
- Flip your Blog to Stand Out from the Crowd
- Making Sure Good Posts don’t get Lost in your Archives
- Advertising Networks – Stop Basing our Adverting Rates on Alexa
- 5 Tips to Remember when Buying a Blog Theme
- When should you Display your FeedBurner RSS to your Readers?
- Never Let a Hosting Company Control your Domain Name
One thing that really helps Blogging Tips stand out from the rest of the blogging crowd, besides its articles, is the addition of multiple blog authors. The site is not only used for posts written by Kevin, but it’s also quickly becoming a collaboration between other great bloggers as well. Blogging Tips actively encourages authors to join the team and contribute other great tips. Already, 2 new authors have signed up, Small Potato and Kumiko Suzuki, which I am positive is only the beginning. Not too bad for a site that’s hasn’t even had it’s two month birthday yet.
The layout of Blogging Tips is easy to navigate with the small exception of the top links. These links could be a bit more user friendly and are a little confusing due to their close proximity to the Google Ad beside them. There were several times I had to double check and make sure I was going to a section of the site and not an advertisement. This is probably great for getting clicks on ads, but may cause users to leave the site when they think it’s a section and end up going to another site instead. Other then that, the site nicely integrates advertising in a non-intrusive way and sets up the site in a fashion that is very easy on the eyes for reading.
Reading Blogging Tips, I really get the impression that Kevin has big plans and wants to take this site far. As proof of that, he is currently running one of the better contests I have seen from a blog in a long while offering readers the chance to win a mascot at BloggingTips.com (worth $300) and also the chance to win $50 cash and free domains. Definitely a sign that this site is serious about providing Blogging Tips and plans to stick around for a good long while.
That’s good news for all of us!
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many thanks for the review chris
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ive removed those google ads in the nav bar – it was a bad idea to put them there. clearly you should put those ads close to other links etc so that they blend in however it was just too confusing where i had them.
i think that long term, different authors is a great thing for the site. There will be times when i write a post and then another author writes a post and disagrees with me however i believe thats a good thing.
the blog is still kinda new however i hope that people can see from my posts that i love updating it. its strange writing about domain names, hosting, search engines and web development sometimes because i was writing articles like that more than 5 or 6 years ago for sites i used to run. I feel like im writing stuff ive already released!
again, thanks a bunch for the review
Despite this being a ReviewMe article then you sold me the idea, I clicked that link to Kveins site and I like it. Good review.
Agree with both (Kevin & Stark), have more than one author is great for any blog (different opinions, different experiences,…)
I loved the idea of prizes to readers (”win a mascot”, free hosting,…), very smart!
Cool site and helpfully for us! thx
I joined in the fun too! Looks like a fab review from yourself – nice going!