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Feedburner - What?s In It For Me?
2008-03-12 12:08:00 Feedburner is, without doubt, the biggest server of RSS feeds on the internet. Using Feedburner to provide your content is easy to set up and is just as easy for your readers to subscribe to. The question is, my RSS feed is available straight from my blog, so why use Feedburner? This is a fair enough ... More About: Feedburner
This Blog Software Widget Provides Fresh Content
2008-03-11 08:12:00 Blog software takes on many different forms and some would argue that a widget is not software. I differ. I feel that any piece of code that is run to gain an effect is software. This widget can be used anywhere, on a blog or on a web site. The widget I am referring to ... More About: Software , Widget , Blog , Content , Fresh
Blog Directories or Blog SEO - What Is More Important?
2008-03-10 12:16:00 Interesting question. Do you concentrate on the various blog directories or do you concentrate on blog SEO? The real answer is most likely, ‘both’. If you are wondering where you should concentrate your efforts then I suggest you forget the terminology for now. The real question becomes, do you concentrate on people (blog directories) or search ... More About: Blog , Directories
Blog Design: It?s Never To Late
2008-03-09 07:42:00 Blog design refers of course to the design of your blog. Do you hire a professional to build a blog from scratch or simply buy a template. Even if you prefer to buy a good template, someone still had to design the template in the first place. In fact, if you decide to build a ... More About: Design , Blog , Late
Blog SEO - Is It A Daily Grind
2008-03-08 07:54:00 It should be. Blog SEO should be a part of your everyday blogging. It’s strange as just about everyone knows what is involved with good blog SEO practices, or at least some of the minimum requirements. So why don’t they do it? I am not going to go through what is good blog SEO practices, ... More About: Daily , Daily Grind , Grind
Using A Guest Writer To Complement Your Blog Content
2008-03-07 07:26:00 Sometimes it can be difficult to come up with good quality fresh blog content each and every day. One solution is to use the occasional guest writers. The difficulty is knowing where to find them. I know several blogs that advertise for guest writers however this option is fraught with several difficulties. The major difficulty is ... More About: Blog , Content , Writer , Guest
Blog Metrics And Your Blog Reader Stats
2008-03-06 13:26:00 How do you measure the success of your blog? The are many blog metric tools available however when it comes to measuring the success of your blog, sometimes the simplest statistics are the best. An interesting article by Paul Wright at Fish and Clicks titled ‘The Best Blog Metric” was rather thought provoking. Paul’s take is ... More About: Reader , Metrics , Feedburner , Stats
?I Don?t Have The Time To Run A Blog?
2008-03-05 14:08:00 There are many very successful business people running very successful businesses and some of these businesses include websites. Although their websites are already successful I still often suggest they start writing a blog as a customer service and marketing tool. The answer I get back runs along the lines of this articles title, ‘I just ... More About: Time , Blog , The Time
A Lazy Blogging Tip To Start The Week
2008-03-04 08:26:00 If you write frequently or if you write for more than one blog then this lazy little blogging tip may not only save some time, it may help boost your reader numbers. The terms ‘content is king‘ and ‘avoid duplicate content’ are probably going to ring loudly after reading this blogging tip, just give it ... More About: Blogging , Blog Marketing , Start , Week , Lazy
A Timely WordPress Tip
2008-03-03 09:41:00 This Word Press tip covers a subject that has been written about many times over the years. Over the last week I have probably spent more time rescuing sites than actually working on the content. Two of my friends had their WordPress self hosted blogs hacked in what I can only describe as a very curious ... More About: Wordpress
A WordPress Plugin To Help Write A Series
2008-03-02 12:53:00 I quite like the concept of writing posts in the form of a series, either sequentially over several days or by releasing each edition at a set time, for example weekly. The concept of posting a topic as a serial is not new and can be a great tactic to entice your visitors back. Of ... More About: Wordpress , Series , Write , Plugin
Is There A Future For Blogging Income?
2008-03-01 13:40:00 One of the fastest growth industries at present is that of the blog and the potential for blogging income. The question is going to be asked sooner rather than later as to the sustainability of this income. Blogging income can be derived from a diverse range of methods. These include your standard Pay Per Click ... More About: Future , Income
Social Bookmarking Sites That Do Follow
2008-02-29 12:56:00 The number of social bookmarking sites that have not gone the no follow route is slowly declining with Flickr the latest to join the no follow list. The seems to be an unhealthy interest in whether or not sites, social bookmarking sites included, use the follow or no follow tags. It seems that everyone is ... More About: Social , Sites , Social Bookmarking , Bookmarking
Blog Directories: Avoiding The Pitfalls
2008-02-28 13:39:00 Once you have created a blog one of the quickest ways to get backlinks and to start building traffic is to submit your blog to as many of the blog directories that you can find. At least, that is the general advice that everyone will offer. There are however several things that you will need ... More About: Blog , Directories
Blog Software: Live Writer Is Getting Better
2008-02-27 07:46:00 When discussing blog software most people immediately think of WordPress and other blog publisher packages. There are however other blog software packages that help your develop your posts prior to publishing. One of these software packages is Microsoft Live Writer . I must admit to not being a big fan of all things Microsoft. About the only ... More About: Software , Blog
Blog Content: The Pillar Post
2008-02-26 16:14:00 Does your blog content planning include pillar posts? Do you have a clear idea of what a pillar post is? Pillar post are, as the name suggests, posts that support the whole structure of a blog. They are the kind of posts that people will reference time and again and are generally written to the ... More About: Post , Blog , Content
Top Seven Blog Design Mistakes
2008-02-25 12:47:00 Creating a blog is easy and so is getting your blog design right. Avoid these seven mistakes and you should have a blog design that is all set for your content. Get your content right and you will have a blog that is well on the way to success. MISTAKE NUMBER ONE: Not Using Your ... More About: Design , Blog
This Blog Plugin Makes Photo Dropping Easy
2008-02-24 12:59:00 This latest blog plugin for WordPress, Photo Dropper, allows you to search for Creative Commons photos on Flickr and, with one click, add them into your posts. As with most WordPress blog plugins, just download the file and upload it into your plugin directory. Once activated go to to the Photo Dropper options. For commercial use ... More About: Blog , Plugin , Easy
What Features Do You Look For In A Blog And Website Services Provider?
2008-02-23 14:12:00 There are many blog and website services provider in the market place now. What features do you look for before buying their services. The first and most important feature to look for is the level of expertise in the services they offer. Some services providers claim a high level expertise but unless they can back these ... More About: Services , Website , Features , Blog , Blog Marketing
Blogging Tip: Combating Content Theft
2008-02-22 13:11:00 Content theft is now rife within the blogging community and this blogging tip will help you combat some of the content thieves. One of the most irksome trends now is to find a blog that is ‘parked’, filled either with every post that you have written or filled with a variety of posts, some of ... More About: Blogging , Content , Theft
Blog Metrics - Do You Understand The Concept?
2008-02-21 12:25:00 I often hear the term blog metrics, web metrics and even business metrics. At times I have to walk away wondering if the speaker really understands the concept behind the term blog metrics. The concept is very straight forward but I will start with some formal definitions. Blog metrics can be defined as: [source] Numbers used as ... More About: Metrics , Concept , Understand
5 Key Ingedients To A Perfect Blog SEO Campaign
2008-02-20 13:07:00 How much time and effort do you put into your blog SEO? Have you hired a professional to do the job for you? Either way, the following checklist will help to determine if the right areas are being targeted. If you haven’t commenced blog SEO activities then this checklist will help you get started. Blog SEO ... More About: Campaign , Perfect
Does Your Blog Design Include A Favicon?
2008-02-19 14:47:00 You can spend a lot of money on a blog design. If you have, do you also have a matching favicon? Now I can hear some mumblings. What is a favicon? Have a look in the address window of your browser. Have you ever noticed the little icons that precede the URL. This is the favicon. ... More About: Design , Blog , Favicon
More WordPress Tips To A Faster Blog
2008-02-18 13:26:00 Our previous post on Word Press Tips looked at decreasing the time it took to load and run the PHP code together with plugins and widgets. Today we will take another look at the sidebars but first, one of the biggest enemies to time when it comes to loading a page, graphics. Graphics, particularly the memory ... More About: Wordpress , Blog
Using No Follow Or Robots To Protect Your Blogging Income
2008-02-17 13:39:00 If your blogging income comes from pay-per-post or other paid links then Andy Beard’s response on how he intends to get around Google’s penalties for paid links may interest you. Google would like to see all paid links using the rel=nofollow tag to prevent those links being followed and so earning page rank link juice. If ... More About: Robots , Blogging , Income
Are You Bored With Your Blog Design?
2008-02-16 13:14:00 Blog design is one of those areas that most blogger’s feel dissatisfied with most. Either it is never quite right or you have simply become bored with it. So what can you do to improve your blog design. You have a wide variety of options. You can: hire a specialist to revamp your blog design find a template ... More About: Design , Blog , Bored
Blog Content - Who Is Your Target Audience
2008-02-15 12:41:00 When planning your blog content, do you write naturally, or do you plan for a particular audience? There is nothing wrong with either style, however, if you write to a particular audience, how effective are you. If your blog content is aimed towards a particular social media audience, do you write for one particular outlet, or ... More About: Blog , Social Bookmarking , Content , Target , Audience
5 WordPress Tips To A Faster Blog
2008-02-14 12:11:00 WordPress tips abound however they are generally encouraging another plugin or more code within the header, footer, index or page files. These WordPress tips are a little different. They are designed to speed up you blog, not slow it down. The problem is fairly simple. The more widgets, plugins or PHP code that WordPress has to ... More About: Wordpress , Tips , Word , Blog
Blog Directories Now Offering More
2008-02-13 13:18:00 Blog directories are always trying to keep ahead of times, more importantly, trying to offer more to keep you participating on their sites. The latest offering is from BlogCatalog who have teamed up with the comment tracking and ranking service, SezWho. BlogCatalog is one of the fastest growing blog directories on the internet. Every ... More About: Blog , Directories
Add Some Flare To Your FeedBurner Posts
More articles from this author:2008-02-12 13:39:00 FeedBurner is one of the most popular RSS services with millions of subscribers and over three quarters of a million publishers using the service. You may well be reading this post through a FeedBurner subscription. There is more to publishing content through FeedBurner now. The advent of FeedFlare allows publishers to provide the resources that ... More About: Feedburner , Posts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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