This is a guest post by Jackie Jackson. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Around six months ago, Daniel touched upon ratio analysis for bloggers. Basically, he came up with two very interesting formulae for analyzing the capabilities of a blog. The first one was ...

Rajasekharan asks: I couldn’t find an XML sitemap in your blog. Do you have one? If no, why are you reluctant to include an XML sitemap? First things first, what is a sitemap? According to Sitemaps.org: Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites tha...

Whew, it has been a while since our last Bloggers Face-Off. I will work harder this year to bring you guys one new face-off every month at least, possibly more. To kick start the 2009 season, however, we got a terrific pair of bloggers. The first one is Chris Coyier, the owner of CSS-Tricks.com. Wit...

As you probably know, Google acquired Feedburner in 2007. Then a couple of months ago they announced that they would start migrating the feeds hosted on Feedburner to Google’s servers. Initially, the transition was optional, and mostly the publishers interested in using the new services like A...

I have been using a CPM ad network on TechCult for the past 6 months. Initially the CPM rates were pretty good, but lately they have been falling to the ground. I am not sure if it is already a reflex of the economic crisis, or if the ad network in question is having a hard time finding new advertis...

A couple of Sundays ago I was having dinner in a restaurant with my girlfriend. We were having a good time, and them at one point she said: “Hmm. Such a nice weekend, too bad tomorrow is already Monday.” That sentence made me stop and think. Why? Because I had the exact opposite feeling....

I came across two interesting contests lately. The first one is being held by Joost de Valk, and it is a WordPress plugin or widget competition. Here is a quote: The guys at sunshine created SunPress, a WordPress plugin that allows affiliates to easily create a holiday site based on WordPress using ...

This yeas was very productive for Daily Blog Tips. We grew the number of RSS subscribers from 7,500 to almost 16,000, and the traffic increase followed on the same pace. I am also sure that the main ingredient for that healthy growth was the unique and (I hope) useful content that I publish. Below y...

A couple of weeks ago I asked our readers what were their Internet related goals for 2009. Below you will find what 56 of them replied. Notice that I only published a small excerpt of the goals of each one, and you can click on their names to visit their blogs and read the full post with their goals...

Farrhad asked: I have noticed that on almost all your posts you have dozens of comments coming in. How do you do this? I get an average of 11 comments (but most of them are from my friends) This question seems to pop up every once in a while. First of all let me tell you that an average of 11 commen...