Quick Blog Tip: Placing Images Within Your Posts

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on September 25th, 2007 14 Comments »

[Updated: Added additional tips that were shared by my readers. It can be found at the bottom of the list.]
Go through all my pages here in PinoyBlogero and you would notice that I never fail to post an image within my blog posts. It is a practice that I find very effective in attracting attention [...]

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Is Your Blog Taking a Lot of Time to Load?

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on September 22nd, 2007 29 Comments »

If I were to describe the internet users of today in one word, I should say that the word “impatient” sums them up pretty nicely.
A few days ago, I fancied trying out Internet Explorer in viewing my blog just to check how things would turn out compared to FireFox. As expected, their differences already showed [...]

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Setting the Best Posting Frequency for Your Blog

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on September 17th, 2007 24 Comments »

When starting out a new blog, part of a blogger’s concern is to set a posting frequency which determines the number of posts to be dished out by a blog in a specified amount of time. I bet some of you took the decision of choosing the posting frequency lightly, thinking that it is not [...]

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Hosted vs. Stand Alone Blog Platforms: Pros and Cons

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on August 29th, 2007 35 Comments »

This post is a part of PinoyBlogero’s “Starting out a New Blog” Series. The said series contains step by step tips and guides in helping bloggers create a new blog.

Yesterday, I have given a brief overview of the two types of blog platforms and their differences from one another. Today, I will be laying out [...]

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Hosted vs. Stand Alone Blog Platforms: Overview

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on August 28th, 2007 14 Comments »

This post is a part of PinoyBlogero’s “Starting out a New Blog” Series. The said series contains step by step tips and guides in helping bloggers create a new blog.

First things first, what is a Blog Platform?
Back at the time when blogs were still in the form of online journals, users had to go through [...]

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A Mini Guide to Attending Offline Blog Events (Part 1)

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on August 22nd, 2007 18 Comments »

I bet most of you have already marked your calendars and are already eagerly waiting for tomorrow’s big offline blog event, the second Taste Asia Blogger Meet-up. Over 500 bloggers were invited to attend, i reckon that it would be another fun night for everyone.
I took the time to browse the guest list and [...]

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Quick Blog Tip: Make Use of Google Alerts

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on August 19th, 2007 10 Comments »

Many of us rely heavily on search engines such as Google and Yahoo for content on our blogs We search through their databases using keywords, scrolling through long pages of seemingly endless search results just to get something new and fresh to talk about. Thankfully, Google has heard our grunts and groans with every click [...]

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10 Basic Tips on Getting Traffic for Your Blog

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on August 15th, 2007 20 Comments »

PinoyBlogero.com has been in the blogosphere for over two months already. During those two months, I tried to provide interesting articles for my readers like “Encourage Feedback: Leave a Question” and “Is RSS Robbing Your Blog of Visitors?”. It was only recently that I noticed that I was greatly focusing on the more advanced topics [...]

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Help! My Blog is Being Attacked! - Handling Comment Attacks

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on August 13th, 2007 27 Comments »

There are times that we could not avoid having conflict of ideas especially here in the blogosphere. People point out the differences in your opinions by laying out their own about the said topic. Discussions such as these should be encouraged, especially because these kinds of interactions keeps a blog alive.
However, there comes a time [...]

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Quick Blog Tip: Keep an Idea Notebook

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on August 6th, 2007 31 Comments »

Have you ever experienced running out of things to talk about on your blog? You try to squeeze your mind for past ideas that you’ve thought up but you still can’t think of any?
I have experienced this problem countless of times during my first few years in Blogging. I remember ending up with half-baked [...]

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Tools for Monitoring Your Blog’s Growth

Posted by Karlo.PinoyBlogero on July 27th, 2007 16 Comments »

One thing that I learned from all the blogs that I have created in the past is that there is no greater joy for a blogger than seeing his blog grow with every passing day. Rising through ranks, gaining readership, receiving backlinks, getting more spam comments, all of these can make any blogger sing to [...]

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