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Two Fantastic Ways To Increase Your Blog Traffic
Friday, 21 December 2007

I wanted to share with everyone two ways ive found really useful when trying to increase traffic to my blog.

The first one is Link Referral. Basically Link Referral works by you logging onto their system & visiting sites in their network. If you log on daily & visit around 30 sites, review a couple, add one to your fave's & put a post in their forum then you will increase your traffic. All that takes about 30 mins a day & in the process you'll make some great blogging buddies (i know i have). I dont do it every day, just when i have time but link referral provides more traffic to my site than any other. Its free to join so if you want more traffic click the link below to get started:


Blog Rush is the next site id like to talk about. Basically you stick their little widget on your blog, which will have various titles of other blog posts on it. Every time your page loads (so i guess every visitor you get) you will earn a credit. Those credits in turn get your post titles listed on other people's sites so if your titles are interesting enough you can draw more traffic to your site. They have a pretty good stats program too! The widget you have to display on your blog will look something like that purply box on the right there, although less pixely, i just did a dodgy print screen & paste job on it. If you want more info on Blog Rush scroll down the my page & look for the real little widget in my right hand column then click on the little blog rush tag at the bottom of it!

Babble byMel : ) at 11:17 PM 0 comments  

Labels Blogger Tips and Tricks

Adding a Rolling List (or Marquee)
Wednesday, 17 October 2007

I thought i would share some tips & tricks that ive learned over time. Not sure how often ill get around to it but here is my first one.

How to put a rolling list on your blog:
I just stuck a list in my side bar thats called 100 things about me (granted there is only 40 of them in there at the moment but you have to start somewhere!). It looks like this:

• 1. I am a mum to a beautiful, energetic, happy baby that hates sleep.
• 2. I am the wife of a very wonderful man
• 3. My hubby is better than me at both cooking and cleaning (yep...he got a raw deal!)
• 4. I LOVE being a SAHM
• 5. My favorite colour is purple but i love green to at the moment
• 6. Im afraid of sharks
• 7. I dont remember the last time i went in the ocean
• 8. i love watching jaws - started watching it when i was 3
• 9. I spend way to much time on the computer
• 10. I love buying books
• 11. I havent read at least half of the books i own
• 12. I need more books
• 13. I tend to pick up at least 2 new hobbies a year
• 14. My newest hobbies are knitting and sewing
• 15. My favorite food is mangos
• 16. We have two mango trees in our back yard!
• 17. I eat to much chocolate
• 18. My chocolate to exercise ratio is way out of wack
• 19. I weigh 15 kilos more than i did before i got pregnant with jet
• 20. I am a pisces
• 21. My rising sign is aquarius and my moon is in sag
• 22. I love astrology (that was last years hobby!)
• 23. I am an only child
• 24. I havent had an alcoholic drink since just before i got pregers with jet
• 25. I dont smoke
• 26. I dont do drugs
• 27. I always feel like a bit of an outsider
• 28. I winge way to much
• 29. Some of the best adventures ive had my hubby had to drag me kicking and screaming too
• 30. I always try to do everything the natural way
• 31. I hate going to see the doctor
• 32. I hate going to the dentist too!
• 33. Im very indecisive
• 34. I cant spell
• 35. A couple of years ago i decided to learn the violin. I played for 1.5 years and havent touched it since jet was born
• 36. I spend to much money online
• 37. I am veyr concerned about saving water, but somehow i just cant stick to 4 mins in the shower, its my relax time
• 38. I put things off
• 39. Im a little bit lazy!
• 40. this list is hard to write - think ill finish it later

Im going to show you how to do a 10 things about me list. First off you'll have to click 'add a page element' on the page elements tab & choose HTML/Java Script. Then you need to paste this code into the box that comes up:

<div class="'widget-content'"><marquee direction="up" width="250" scrollamount="1" height="100"> <ul><span> <li>1. Enter Text Here</li> <li>2. Enter Text Here</li> <li>3. Enter Text Here</li> <li>4. Enter Text Here</li> <li>5. Enter Text Here</li> <li>6. Enter Text Here</li> <li>7. Enter Text Here</li> <li>8. Enter Text Here</li> <li>9. Enter Text Here</li> <li>10. Enter Text Here</li> </span> </ul></marquee></div>

Replace the 'Enter Text Here' parts with your own text. Give it the title '10 things about me (or whatever you like) and thats it! This is what the above code will look like before you put your own text in & add the header:

If anyone has any probs just let me know & ill attempt to try and figure out whats going wrong.

Babble byMel : ) at 3:10 PM 0 comments  

Labels Blogger Tips and Tricks