2010 New Goals?

Firstly a week in, Happy New Year guys, hope your holiday season was enjoyable and indulgent. I had a great time, spent a month down in sunny Jamaica, not really doing anything much more than enjoying the sunshine and the tranquility. Back in London, the snow has most of us on lockdown, cold and wishing [...]

How To Expand Your Blog’s Reach

Over the past few months this blog has grown in visitors and readers and the amount of money generated. Even though it’s not a niche blog, I have managed to benefit from some very sound advice offered by other bloggers. I would like to share these resources with you so that if you are also [...]

I Think I Got Slapped

I’ve not been updating the site for a while because I have been caught up in lots of stuff in the offline world. Moving house, turning forty, blah blah blah, all meant I didn’t have a lot of time for Rambling procrastination. I am aiming to change that soon though and get back to both [...]

Hackers Bring Down Popular BloggingZoom

I was in the process of writing a post about BloggingZoom, the ‘Digg’ for bloggers when I got wind from Internet Marketing champion Courtney Tuttle that the site has been hacked. Courtney is one of the founder/owners of BloggingZoom alongside Vic of BloggerUnleashed who’s site coincidentally is also down. BloggingZoom is a fast growing site [...]

Use images to give your posts extra zing

Stock Photography can greatly enhance your blog posts and provide that little bit extra for your readers. Magazines and newspapers do it, why shouldn’t you? It needn’t cost the earth either. There are many websites online that offer free stock photography as well as some that offer public domain images that can be used without restriction. Read this article and find some useful websites where you can download images for free and use both personally and commercially.

I am Two

I have just realised that my blog is 2 years old and like a very errant parent, I forgot it’s birthday. Doh! The first post is dated 3rd Nov 2005 and is here. I remember, now that I have glanced at that post, the blog started as a way of keep a daily journal of [...]

Who’s buzzing about your blog?

Is this something that you want to know, how about your visitors, do they want to know how well thought of or referenced you are in OPB (that’s Other People’s Blogs). I’ve found this widget that seems to do the trick.

BlogCatalog Bloggers for Good Fundraising Challenge

[tag]BlogCatalog[/tag] the lively [tag]social networking[/tag] community for bloggers has lanched a community fundraising event which aims to raise funds, via [tag]DonorsChoose.org[/tag], for public schools in the United States. DonorsChoose provides a simple way of connecting students with donors. Teachers submit ideas for projects or materials needed by the students at their school, and visitors to [...]

Spread the link love

Why not do as Jonathan over at SmartWealthyRich suggests and spread the love to other bloggers who comment on your blog by downloading and installing the [tag]DoFollow plugin[/tag] to your [tag]wordpress[/tag] blog? By default links posted on your blog comments section have a “rel=nofollow tag” which tells the search engine not to follow the links [...]

Site upgrade in progress

Sorry if things look a little weird for a few days, I am upgrading behind the scenes and as a result some of the images have gone walkabout. Hopefully this will get sorted very soon and I will then announce some changes. Till then, happy ramblings

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