This is an interesting wordpress plugin. What it does? Well, when you mouseover a commentator name, something will appear, showing you some information about the person. Here’s a screenshot:

I find it very useful because I always like to keep in touch with the commentators of my blog, a blog is nothing without its commentators. Using this plugin, you could actually track their activity on your blog.

Comment info tip can be downloaded from here.

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I hate when this happens. Let’s say that I’m a loyal visitor of your blog, I read it every day. You have posted a great but long article, full of text, pictures and even a little movie. And you didn’t split it! What if I enter the index of the blog and I would like to read the second article? I have to scroll down a little. This is frustrating.

If you haven’t noticed, wordpress (and maybe other platforms too) has a great thing implemented.

Don’t be afraid to use it! It will definitely improve the blog’s usability and you’ll see that your readers will be satisfied. So … when reaching about the middle of the article click on that button, and then continue writing. Publish the article and you’ll see the changes.

I don’t know if you noticed, but I have recently made an account at twitter: http://twitter.com/alextips.com . Twitter is an extraordinary tool for so called “micro-blogging”, you know .. you can’t just blog everything on a normal blog, I can’t say here what I am doing, because this is a blogging tips blog so I don’t want to tell you what I ate and so on. But on twitter I can do that, actually most of the members do that!

Ok, so you have an account at twitter, a blog, and you want to have your twitter updates in your sidebar. This is an easy step but at first sight it may seem to bevery complicated. Many people have so complicated methods, here is the simplest one. I don’t know if you knew that a “twitter widget” exists.

The plugin I am talking about can be downloaded from here. Download it, upload it in the “plugins” folder on your ftp and then activated it on your blog. At “presentation – > widgets” you will notice the “Twitter” widget. Drag it to your sidebar. It should look like this when clicking at the right side of it:

As you can see, at the account you should enter only the account’s name, at title enter whatever you want, and and then choose how many updates to appear on your sidebar.

Did you know that you could get some free 25$ to advertise your blog with? It’s simple. I am talking about yahoo search marketing, this might be an old thing, but I am sure that most of you didn’t know that this offer exists so that’s why I am telling you about it.

All you need to know is to go onto this page and make an account. After making an account, you’ll receive the 25$ at your first deposit. The minimum deposit is 30$. That’s not so much, for giving 30$ you will receive 55$, I think that this is a good deal.

Like Google, Yahoo, has a good keyword suggestion tool that will help you to get very targeted traffic on your blog.

Finding your niche you like to write about is very important. You can’t start a blog about science for example if you don’t like science at all.

The secret for a successful blogger is to write only the things you are interested in, you must put some passion there. So how do you find your perfect niche?

Before starting blogging, I personally read many blogs and so, after a while I could say “yes, I do like writing about blogging tips”. You should do that too, read many blogs related to different niches, and see what’s your favorite. Don’t worry, there are readers for every single niche, there’s no such thing that a niche has more success than an other.

I will start with the basics in blogging. These first tips may be boring for some of you who already know these things but they might be very useful for a new blogger. So let’s take it easy.

photo by a trying youth

Blogger

What I do like at Blogger is that is very easy and quick to make your own blog. You only have to sign-up there, complete some details, log in and create a blog. Easy!

What I don’t like at Blogger is the fact that Blogger is not so professional like WordPress, it’s good for new bloggers but if you really really want to do something good, I recommend you WordPress. With blogger you can’t have your own domain, and your own host.

WordPress

WordPress is awesome, I love it! It’s a fantastic blogging script. Very easy to personalize and there are many themes available for wordpress.

There are two kinds of wordpress. The one that is almost like blogger ( you only have to sign-up and your blog is ready ) or another one that’s a little bit more tricky.

It has a blogging script that you can download for free and put it on your host. It’s easy too, but sometimes it can be tricky. What’s so nice about this script is that you have total freedom!

So final recommendation, new bloggers, use Blogger and advanced bloggers, use WordPress (but I think that you already use it)!