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 [...]
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How to Get Review Units for Your Blog
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
10 WordPress Plugins for your Tech Blog
As a general rule of thumb most errors you’ll encounter with your WordPress blog are the result of excessive or incompatible plugins. While many find the selection of essential plugins a conundrum I believe in testing each plugin one-by-one with the latest version of WordPress so I can isolate the problem to determine the cause [...]
How to Get Your Tech Blog Indexed by Google and Yahoo
By now you’re tech blog is ready for action and you’ve started to explore the inner workings of WordPress and hopefully produced some content. In the business of blogging experience will lead you to one conclusion – unique quality content is always king. Now that you exist in the address bar of your browser it [...]