Last week was an amazing week for Newest on the Net. Despite being in its first week, over 2,000 unique visitors came. While I have a long way to go, I am very happy with the traffic I have received so far.
I am very happy about guest blogging on Blogging Tips last week. Kevin Muldoon was very nice allowing me to write an article for his blog. Here is an article describing my guest blogging experience.
All in all I am very happy about the first week for Newest on the Net. If there are topics that you would like me to cover, please leave a request in a comment.
There have been a lot of great posts recently on how to increase the traffic to your website or blog. One of the biggest ways you can increase your own blogging success is to read how other bloggers are attracting traffic. Traffic is what we are doing this for. Whether you are trying to make money online or trying to just entertain your readers, you need readers. Here are some awesome recent posts.
One of the first thing that you should do when setting up a new blog on WordPress is to turn on permalinks. I do this before I post any articles, because I want all of my posts that are linked around the Internet to point back to the proper permalink. To set up permalinks, follow the following steps:
First: Go to your administration panel > options > permalinks
Second: Decide which version of permalinks your would like. WordPress has four options for permalinks.
Default – This option is the standard permalink structure. Your posts will look like this, http://yourblog.com/?p=133. I do not like this option because it tells your readers nothing about the topic of your post. It solely tells them that this is the 133rd page on your site.
Date and Named Based – This option is much better than the default because it tells your reader more information about this url. Your posts will look like this, http://yourblog.com/2009/09/13/post-title/. This is much better than the default, but I see no reason to display the date of the post.
Numeric – This option is almost the same as the Default option. Your posts will look like this, http://yourblog.com/archive/133. Again, this only tell your readers that this is the 133rd page on your blog. Why would you readers care about this? They couldn’t care less.
Custom – This is my favorite option. I like for my urls to look like this, http://newestonthenet.com/my-first-guest-blogging-gig/. Readers of Newest on the Net can immediately determine what this post is about. The title of this post is, My First Guest Blogging Gig. I believe that this is all my readers really care about. Besides being good for readers it is good for search engine optimization because my article keywords can be incorporated into my url.
Third: Once you decide that you want to use a customer permalink you need to type in the code for this custom permalink. I use the following code code – /%postname%/.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask by leaving a comment.
Today I got to try my hand at guest blogging. Kevin Muldoon from Blogging Tips was nice enough to allow me to post an article on his blog. I felt like Wesley Crusher getting to take over the helm of the starship Enterprise.
My article on Blogging Tips is titled Using Video to Engage Your Readers. I ask you all to go over and check it out. If you aren’t already a fan of Blogging Tips, I highly encourage you to look through all of Kevin’s prior posts. Kevin is a great writer and his topics are always very interesting.
So, after you go over and check out my article, leave comment and then come back here and leave a comment here.
Today I got to try my hand at guest blogging. Kevin Muldoon from 
