So you started making some contacts (media contacts) by sending out emails on behalf of your tech blog and now you need to show off the shiny new gadgets. The good news here is that you do not need a top of the line dSLR camera or expensive studio lighting to achieve some quality photos [...]
Write For Techblogstartup
by Nick Marshall on Feb 08, 2010 in Announcement
If you’d love to see your articles posted on TechBlogStartup you’ve come to the right place. We are currently looking for guest posters who want to contribute some great content and in exchange receive some quality backlinks and free promotion for their own website, blog or twitter account. How Guest Posting Works: First we need [...]
Incansoft’s Traffic Mania SocialBot Review
by Nick Marshall on Feb 05, 2010 in Reviews
I’ve expressed the importance of Social Bookmarking in Step Two of my Guide, How to Build Traffic After You’ve Posted to Your Blog, and let’s be honest – the process is very time consuming. In my own personal quest to streamline the social bookmarking process I stumbled upon a piece of software by Icansoft called [...]
How to Get Review Units for Your Blog
by Nick Marshall on Feb 05, 2010 in Guides
So you’ve got your tech blog up and running, you started to promote your content and now you want to land some review units. There’s a lot of theories when it comes to finding review units for a blog, but regardless of which method you choose you must be ready for some level of rejection. [...]
How to Build Traffic After You’ve Posted to Your Blog
by Nick Marshall on Feb 03, 2010 in Guides
If you followed my previous guide your Blog is currently indexed by Google and Yahoo, but now you are confronted with a new problem – how do I build traffic? You could have the best tech blog on the Internet, but if no one knows about it you will begin to feel discouraged and ultimately [...]
Pre-Post Checklist for your WordPress Blog
by Nick Marshall on Feb 02, 2010 in Guides
Before I post fresh content on my tech blogs I always follow a strict checklist to ensure that I deliver the best quality content possible. This process begins with the title of my post. There are many tactics to creating attractive headlines for your posts such as asking a question, challenging an idea or even [...]
Killer Related Posts for the WordPress Thesis Theme
by Nick Marshall on Feb 01, 2010 in Guides
Sometimes you have to put your pride aside and resort to the talents of WordPress Plugin Developers – Yet Another Related Post Plugin is the perfect example. One of the problems you might find in your search for a Related Post Plugin is customization and this is exactly where the latest version of YARPP really [...]
How to Generate Traffic from Google Image Search
by Nick Marshall on Feb 01, 2010 in Guides
As you start to build content for your Tech Blog and submit articles to social bookmarking websites your primary goal will be generating traffic. There are many ways to generate traffic for a blog, but one method I feel is greatly overlooked is the power of Google Image Search. Unlike the standard tactics used to [...]
How to Create a Clickable Header Logo for your WordPress Blog
by Nick Marshall on Feb 01, 2010 in Guides
Sooner or later you will come to the conclusion that you need to design a logo for your WordPress tech blog. Sure you could always create the logo and then rely on a home button in the navigation bar, but why not just make the logo file you’ve created clickable? In the following tutorial I [...]
How to Create a Favicon.ico for your Tech Blog
by Nick Marshall on Feb 01, 2010 in Guides
If you’ve ever wondered why some blogs and websites have a small icon (16×16, 32×32 or 64×64) in the address bar you’ve found the right tutorial. Today we are going to show you 2 methods to create your own icon (favicon.ico) for your tech blog. The first method will be done by using the FavIcon [...]
