Sometimes people really go all out for a project or a product, so much so you can feel the passion they feel without even knowing who they are. When I hear stories like this I feel motivated, and at the same time like I can never work hard enough on my websites to ever be [...]
If you run a blog that focuses on a certain city of location, why not add a cool little weather widget to show your visitors the current weather conditions in your area. If the visitor is from the area they may remember that your website provided that information and come back. If they are from [...]
Was There Too Much Sex And Profanity In The HBO Presidential Debate?
I posted this video from The Onion mainly for the Steve Buscemi line.
In a study run by the Hot Adults for Kinky Fetishes Association attractive adults with foot fetishes are prone to depression when their own feet stink. Seven adults were forced to wear their shoes with no socks for six days straight. They could only remove their shoes for showers, and they had to promise not [...]
In a stunning turn of events local man George Mchallowitts nose exploded with hair, with reports saying bushyness up a full 45% thicker, and length up to a half inch in many places. Now girlfriend Lisa Mayeb is planning drastic moves so they they may return to the public and “actually go out places since [...]
A good blog post is made even better with all the right images. Some posts demand images to paint a better picture, and besides that, it adds more content to your post, which search engines love. You readers always enjoy a little eye candy, and if you really want to get your message across, what [...]
Let do a little experiment that I hope will help some of you trying to develop new blogs. If your blog is really a good idea, you should be able to sell it to everyone. So, for the next few days I am opening up my comments (on this page only) for you to advertise [...]
This is a really bad idea, and you shouldn’t try this at home.
With bookmarking becoming more and more important when promoting your blog, it is important to make sure your visitors and bookmark or vote for your articles on the popular bookmarking sites. There is a great Wordpress Plugin that makes this easy as uploading a few files, and picking the social networks you want your users [...]
Sure you could spend a boat load of cash to bring in the readers, but what if you are just starting out and don’t really have the cash to run a large campaign. Or maybe you have a new idea you want to test out, and want a few users to try out for feedbacks [...]
If you are just getting into blogging you may not have a lot of money to spend on advertising your site. That dosn’t mean you should just avoid banner advertising all today. In fact, there is a fantastic site that allows you to “earn” free advertising on their large network. Its called WorldBE and it [...]
Now that we have our basic design up and running at The Jerk its now time to get some content up. We need to offer something in order to attract people to our site, and then once we have some regular readers we can start selling stuff they can’t resist. There are many ways to [...]
Once upon a time about six months ago I tried out a little program called Linkbucks. At the time I didn’t know or realize that this type of advertising is usually associated with spammy types of sites and scummy parts of the internet. As soon as I was alerted to this I decided it was [...]
This is a call out to the expert blogger. I am composing a list of tips for bringing in quality traffic to almost any blog. If you have a interesting tip that has really helped you in your blogging, please post it here in the comments, and I will create a master list…a list unlike [...]
One of the things that makes blogs and blogging so great is that anyone who visits your site can interact with your content, posting comments and asking questions. This adds new content to your pages, makes readers come back to see what others said, and overall its “very badass“ for your website. So, it makes [...]
Just having a Google Adsense on your site isn’t good enough. Especially today when click through rates are low, and payouts are even lower. It is important, no matter what type of blog you run, that you find the right advertisers through adsense to match your readers, and you get the highest paying clicks possible. [...]
By popular request I am going to start offering a service that will help new bloggers just getting into the game launch their blog into the spot light and really give them a chance to be successful. This is going to be a 5 day site boosting service that will bring you a swarm of [...]
Almost all affililate programs provide you with banner images to use, and text links. Sometimes you might get lucky and have access to flash banners and things like search forms. But, what if you could add more functionality to your website, and at the same time attract more affiliate conversions? With Share Results, you can, [...]
Bloggers are for the most part creative people expressing themselves on the net. (even spammers are expressing their hate of the world by stealing our work and clogging up our inboxes) That being a fact, around this time of year you will find many hilariously “creative” Halloween costumes sported bloggers. TopBlogger is proud to celebrate bloggers and [...]
What a better way to improve your blog then to have the public redicule every mistake you made, and destroy everything you thought was working well on your blog? So, as a gift to our readers we are accepting submissions for us to review your blog. We will take it apart piece by piece, and [...]
You may have noticed that my website has been down for what seemed like forever (at least to me) and I have to say it has been one of the worst weeks of my life without it. But, now that we are back in business it is time to look back a reflect on all [...]
Sometimes you might want certain categories of your Wordpress site to use different templates. For example, our Humor site The Jerk has three different types of content that I want to show three different ways (normal articles, videos, and comics). This is actually built into Wordpress and dosn’t require any special plugin or anything like [...]
We are going to hurt his feelings.
From our previous articles we now have a basic site up and running. We could at this point plug-in content and let the site run, but I think we can really come up with something that looks fantastic and works great. So, let work on a few more things. The header on our site needs [...]
This is a simple process on pretty much any server, but you may run into problems along the way. This is a simple guide, with a few troubleshooting tips that may help you out when trying to install Wordpress on your server. You can take a few different routes depending on what type of hosting [...]
Now that we have a base set up for us to work off of, we want to get everything we want on the site together. We want all of our plug-ins installed and being used on the site. We want our ads in place, and we want to get everything up and running that could [...]
It has always been a section on CricketSoda, and now it will be its own complete humor site with the greatest humor, satire, and other junk we have ever produced before ever. It is going to be fantastic. I am writing a tutorial/walkthrough as I build the site and publishing it on Top Blogger to help all those who are interested in created their own site. You can also see the site IN PROGRESS at http://thejerk.cricketsoda.com. It will open soon, and we will have a party for sure to celebrate.
In our last article we went over a few things to help us decide what our basic layout is going to be. Really, there are two ways of doing it, each with their own advantages. You could design a layout, and create a Wordpress theme from it. For some people this comes easy and allows [...]
Since we posted our review of Project Wonderful I have received a few questions from our readers about adding project wonderful to Blogspot/Blogger. Blogger has a great admin panel, and adding the code is actual simple and easy to do. Here are the steps I followed to add it to my blog Teh CricketSoda Side [...]
Now that we have our basic planning from our previous article, lets dive a little deeper and plan out what content we are going to have, and how we want to display it. This is still the planning stage of the site, but these things are very important to look at. By knowing what you [...]
Recently I decided that in order to make CricketSoda everything I wanted it to be when I first started this adventure I would need to make several niche blogs covering everything I wanted to cover. In the past I posted pretty much everything on CricketSoda and seperated it into categories. I hoped for the best [...]
So, this is close to what I am going to use as far as layout and design. I am going to separate all the cool stuff we do into niche blogs because thats really what people like to read…something specific to their interest. So, to start, we have Top Blogger and a few other properties, with many more to be added soon. (more…)
Since you are starting a blog you probably have some goals you wish to accomplish with your blog. This is a good thing, and will help you stay motivated and focused on making your blog the very best it can be. But with a blog, comes many goals, be it making money, getting read by [...]
Wordpress is great in that it lets you create your own Wordpress theme from scratch with relatively little effort. If you really want your theme to harness all of the power of Wordpress, you need to do a few things. One of the most important being making your theme able to use Wordpress Widgets.
It is [...]
Taking advantage of the seasons can be a very profitable venture. People save money to blow on the holidays, and the chance to pick up some of the rush of holiday spending is possible for almost any blog. No matter what your niche market, you probably have articles related to the season, and if you [...]
Blogging has become so accessable to everyone that its no wonder that many bloggers, even ones with notoriety and fame, still have a day job. So in our latest poll we set out to find how many of our readers blog full time, as their profession, and how many do it in their free time, [...]
I have tried a lot of things trying to sell my own adspace. Sure things like Adsense can bring in some cash but sometimes you wish advertisers were bidding on your prime spot, and not just your keywords. Maybe that header banner is worth more than just 10 cents a click. Recently I found a [...]
You have seen this layout a hundred times, and it is considered by most web developers to be the Holy Grail of all layouts. It is simple to use, and allows you great flexibility with any site you are building. Basically, the layout includes a header, three columns (one for a menu, one for content, [...]
One of the greatest advancements in the Wordpress admin user interface is widgets. Widgets allow you to control the layout, more specifically where the different elements show up on your site, using a simple drag and drop interface. In one column, you have a list of all available widgets, and in the other column you [...]
Wordpress really starts to come alive when you throw widgets in the mix. Widgets allow you to drag and drop much of the layout and design of your site, and add custom functionality that will make your home on the web both more unique, and give your users the ability to interact with your site. [...]
Yesterday I mentioned Plug-Ins for Wordpress, which is the real reason Wordpress is such an amazing tool for building websites. Now we are going to dive into how they work and how to use them.
What is a Wordpress Plug-in?
Wordpress comes with a lot of features, but it is made to be a basic platform [...]
I seem to do this with every new blog I start but I just wanted to get the whole process started as soon as possible. You see, having other people write for you have many benefits that you really need to take advantage of if you want to survive in the blogging world.
So that [...]
