Hi Bloggers been extremely busy this week with my new design and I’m pleased to announce it’s now ready and the theme is up and running, the new design has all the features you require for running a modern successful make money online blog. Here are a rundown of the design & features, I will be tweaking the theme as I go along.

PartTimeBlogger Theme rundown

Header Section

Lets start at the top then, there’s a space for you to add your very own Custom header image. I have added my Header which has instantly personalised the blog and made it my own.

Below the header you have the Navigation bar were you can add all your important pages and links.

Next you have 3 spaces were you can add almost anything you want Google ads, blog widgets , affiliate banners, free giveaways the list is endless. If you look at mine I have the first box offering the Guest Blogging spots, the second box the Free Blogging ebook and the third is were the readers can grab my Rss Feed.

Advertising Section

Next you have an other space for a 463x 145 banner, i’m displaying a banner to my webhost Hostgator on this one.

On the right you have a space to fit unlimited 125x 125 ads which as all Bloggers know is the most popular blog advertising size.

Below this box you have a column were you can add even more of your blog goodies. I’m using this column for my Categories, recent posts, recent comments and archives.

Footer Section

How let’s move down to the footer here you see the blog has even more space for more of your goodies. I am using this space for my blogging community widgets. At the moment it is displaying by Blogcatalog widget, mybloglog widget and entrecard widget. Below the widgets are my links

Well, there you have it hope you like my new theme and any suggestions on how to improve the design will be most welcome.

Bye for now and Happy Blogging!

The Part Timer!

Hi Bloggers, we all want to gain as many links as we can pointing back to our blog. These links help increase our Page & Search Engine Rankings. I have over the past few months commented on many blogs that carry the NoFollow tags, but from a Internet Marketer’s point of view I needed to stay away from these. I agree partially with NoFollow tags because they reduce comment spam. Which to be honest is the worst part of running my blog. But if your like me, I only leave comment’s that add value to the blog post and sometimes it would be nice to get something back in return.

What are NoFollow Tags

NoFollow Tags were introduced to reduce comment spam

Search Engines give no link credit to site’s that carry the NoFollow Tags

A NoFollow Tag looks like this <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.yoursite.com”>

How to find out if a Blog is using NoFollow Tags using the Firefox Browser

I have just recently moved browsers from ie to firefox which I should of done years ago I’m loving it. There is a Firefox add-on you can download that will easily let you find out which blog’s are using the NoFollow Tags. It is called Search Status all you need to do is download the add-on and reboot firefox and your ready to go.

Here’s how it works

Once you have rebooted firefox you will see a Q shaped symbol in the bottom left hand side of your browser. Right click on this and it will bring up a list just click on ‘Highlight NoFollow Links’. What’s great about this add-on also is you can do many more things with it, than just hightlighting NoFollow Links. You can view the whois, you can see robots.txt you can see how many pages are indexed. All in all its a great addition to your firefox browser.

Now that you have highlighted the NoFollow links when you go to someone’s blog if a link is NoFollow it will be highlighted in pink. It’s as simple as that.

Happy Blogging and Good Luck to all of you

The Part Time Blogger!

Hi Bloggers and welcome to the last post of the year. 2007 as had its ups and downs for me it as been the year I started by Part Time Internet Marketing career.

Here’s the Story so Far

I decided I wanted to start making a bit of money from the Internet in may when my overtime was stopped in my day job. So I opened up a shop on Ebay selling Ebooks, boy was that a mistake several emails a day saying ‘Link doesn’t work or ‘Ebook is shit’ I want a refund. For f**** sake its only a dollar, get a life. That little venture lasted about 3 weeks and I made about $30 profit. So be warned selling ebooks on ebay doesn’t work now there’s too many people at it.

Next f*** up purchased nearly a dozen ready made turnkey sites. I was a fool and fell for the sales talk not to mention I was a complete newbie. This is now naive I was, I purchased 5 sites from one guy with hosting. So I emailed him to say could I host all the sites on one hosting account. This is what the w***er had to say.

Hi Keith, you can not host more than one domain with each hosting account with us, some hosting account’s do but the service is shocking so stay well clear. This guy clearly knew I was a newbie just by knowing I purchased 5 of his shitty sites, and conned me big time. I am tempted to let you all know who the w***er is but that is not my style, and as they say you learn from your mistakes.

Next mistake I started several forums hoping I could grow a popular community. I managed to gather 100 members on one. But the posts never really taken off and the work I put into it was worth thousands by my day job standards.

In October I discovered the world of Blogging and everything is moving along great now. I am channeling my time and money better and I predict a good year for 2008.

My two Niche sites I discovered last week are up and I’m ranking at 120 for my chosen keyword in a matter of days. And more importantly the site is starting to make a small amount of money .$3.50 so far you have to start somewhere don’t you.

Well hope you all have a fantastic New Years Eve, I’m flying over to Ireland in a few hours to spend it there with my lovely girlfriend.

Bye for now and Happy New Year to all of you!

Part Time Blogger!

Hi Bloggers the topic of today’s post is this ’Why pay for a Blog Makeover’. Having though about paying for one myself I have noticed quite a few of the more well known Blogger’s are getting there Blog’s madeover for nothing. Tyler Cruz and Caroline Middlebrook to name just a few.

The first thing I did when I started the Blog in October was to spend a couple of hours looking for a good FREE Wordpress Template. I’m on my second one now and fairly happy with the crisp clean design, and have decided I’m going to stick with this one, well until some hotshot designer offers me a Freebie.

To be honest I know this is not going to happen for a very very long time, your Blog needs to be at a certain standard and have well over 500 Rss readers, and I’m crying saying this PartTimeBlogger.com isn’t that. At first I did contemplate buying a Blog makeover hoping that it will increase my readers, a nice blog design is all well and good. But you need the content to go with it and I’m the first to admit it I’m not there yet. If you look around the Blogosphere most of the top Bloggers have what you call Blog designs that are not easy on the eye. To be brute their plain darn ugly, but this didn’t stop these guys getting to the top. The only Blog design I can think of that made the blog what it is today is Johncow.com the content is good but it screamed out come back for more, I’m pretty. I really like the design and when the template came on sale a couple of weeks ago I nearly made the purchase. But decided against it because I didn’t think it would make any difference to my blog.Yeah it may of looked prettier but traffic wise I don’t think I would of seen an increase.

Why get a Blog Makeover?

My advice to all Newbie Blogger’s out there DO NOT PAY FOR A BLOG MAKEOVER. You may be asking why not, well if your prepared to pay for a blog makeover you must rate yourself as a blogger, and see it as an investment which will pay you back 100 times once you hit the big time. Don’t be a fool if your good and your content is good you will get to the big time without an expensive Blog Makeover, and once at the top Blog designer’s will be knocking at your inbox door desperate to makeover your Blog to get that footer link that will make them much more than if you payed them $500 for the Blog Design.

Another reason a Newbie Blogger should never pay for a Blog Makeover is this, Blogging is a Part Time game to most of us and eats into quite abit of our time. This is why most Blogger’s give in after 3 months of blogging they either have writer’s block or find out the time there using can be used on more worthwhile projects or down in the pub. I have even thought to myself, is this worth it. You only get get one shot at life, don’t waste it Blogging earning no money or at best very little money. But my biggest mistake  is not the time spent blogging it was the time wasting. I’ve eliminated most of that and I’m starting to make progress with my Niche Sites and Affilaite Marketing.

So my advice to all you Newbie and Part Time Blogger’s is to keep your hand in your pocket and concentrate on writing good content. There are hundreds of fantastic FREE designs out there just find one that suits you and stick with it till your offered a FREEBIE or you Quit. Sorry if the word Quit is harsh but I’m afraid most of us will.

Happy Blogging and Good luck to all of you!

Part Time Blogger!