Report: The Roadmap to Become A Blogger
My friend Yaro Starak is launching a new report today titled The Roadmap to Become A Blogger. It comes with 76 pages with information about how you can launch a successful blog, and what are the milestones that you will need to reach along the way.
Blogging Idol 2: Processing The Judges’ Votes
We are currently processing the votes of the judge panel, and we will need to postpone the declaration of the winner until tomorrow. Two votes have been cast already (mine and Ricky’s from Keyword Country), and we are just waiting for Jarrod to finish his evaluation and communicate his decision.
Referrer Detector WordPress Plugin
Many bloggers and website owners like to greet visitors coming from specific websites with a tailored message. There are many plugins that will make this for you on WordPress, but a cool one that I came across recently is called Referrer Detector.
Blogging Idol 2: Update Five (Winners of the Voting Session)

The open voting session was closed yesterday at midnight, and we already have the 3 winners (each of them wins 1 point). They were:
Blogging Questions & Answers 27

Happy Thanksgiving for you guys that celebrate it (I know it was yesterday…). Another set of questions and answers is live.
If you want to ask a question you just need to leave a comment below with it.
1. James asks:
I run a podcast via a blog. I just started moving into video and I am now concerned that I have to many images, too many icons, and too many videos on the blog. Is there a chance I’ve overcrowded my blog?
Website Traffic Series Part 20: Leveraging Holidays and Big Events
Christmas, thanksgiving, the summer Olympic games, the U.S. presidential elections, you name it. For most people those are holidays where they rest and hang out with family and friends, or big events that they watch on television. For website owners and Internet marketers, however, those are great traffic generation opportunities!

15,000 RSS Subscribers Milestone
Daily Blog Tips is just over 15,000 RSS subscribers, and I wanted to extend a thank you to all the readers, subscribers and supporters. I have a lot of fun writing here every day, so the fact that people take the time to read my words is flattering.
Write Your Titles CAREFULLY and AFTER the Post
I confess that this is a mistake that I used to do myself. When starting to write a new post, I would start with the title, move to the body of the post, proofread it and publish.
Why is this method not effective? For two reasons.










