Twitter plugins for Wordpress
By Bloggington on November 5, 2009
Today, I want to look at three Twitter related plugins for Wordpress. Although there are many plugins available for Wordpress-Twitter integration, I want to talk about the three that I use most often. Perhaps in a later post I shall look at others.
i. WP to Twitter. WP to Twitter is a one-way [...]
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Finding ideas for blog entries
By Bloggington on November 4, 2009
Some days, I fire up the laptop, open the word processor and sit motionless. I just do not know what to write. I know who I should be writing for, I know, broadly, the subject matter I should be writing about. However, I am just unable to find that initial impetus to get started. If [...]
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Adding clean archives to your WordPress blog
By admin on November 3, 2009
Clean, manageable archives on a blog act much like a sitemap for users. Such archives enable browsers to see the entire content of a blog at a glance.
In the past, I used Justin Blanton’s Smart Archives plugin, but this seems to have been superseded by Scribu’s Smart Archives Reloaded. The latter seems easier [...]
Posted in Wordpress Plugins | Tagged Archives, Presentation, Wordpress Blog | Leave a response
List of RSS feed directories
By admin on November 2, 2009
Directory submissions have long been a tool for site promotion. About a year or so ago, search engines began to downgrade directory links and the effectiveness of directory submissions as a tool for building keyword targeted links took a major hit.
As bloggers, directory submissions do still offer a chance to build links albeit largely weak [...]
Posted in Blog Promotion | Tagged blog directory, Directories, Directory Submissions, Free Feeds, RSS directory, RSS feed, Search Engines, Site Promotion, Syndication | Leave a response
List of Free Blog Directories
By Bloggington on October 13, 2009
Submitting to directories was once the mainstay of off site SEO efforts. Over a year ago Google began to devalue directory related links, however they do still add SEO value. Bloggers still promote blogs in this way and I am often asked whether I have a list of free blog directories exists. Over time, I [...]
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Wordpress v2.8 Released
By Bloggington on June 12, 2009
Version 2.8 or Wordpress was released a few days ago and I have finished updating my blogs.
I am unable to see many changes – perhaps it is time to read the changelog.
Previous revisions included a reworking of the admin GUI. This time it seems to have remained largely the same with the exemption of changes [...]
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Blog traffic from unexpected sources
By Bloggington on April 9, 2009
Recently, I discovered a previously untapped source of blog traffic that I will refer to as daisy chaining. And here I will give an outline on how I employed the method to get a high authority PR7 link and good traffic spike.
Many larger media outlets link to blogs on their news and political articles, and editorials offering the [...]
Posted in Blog Promotion | Tagged Authoritative Sources, Blogosphere, Daisy Chaining, Google Trends, Linkage, Search Engines | Leave a response
The power of blog commenting
By Bloggington on April 3, 2009
Google began exporting its PageRank data recently and I noticed how one of my relatively new blogs had gone from being of ‘unknown’ PageRank to a rank of 2. On seeing this gratifying change, I reflected on the nature of the development of the blog and how I might duplicate its modest success on some [...]
Posted in Blog Promotion | Tagged blog, Blogs, Google, Linkage, Metrics, Nature, Niche, Promotional Work, Reins, Statistics, Subscribers, traffic, Web Directories | Leave a response
Back up strategies for Wordpress blogs
By Bloggington on April 2, 2009
Thankfully, I have never had to face the situation, but I have read of individuals who (usually through not remaning abreast of security updates) have had their blogs wiped out.
Recently, reading on a forum about an individual who had lost his blog content, I began to think about my own back strategy and how I [...]
Posted in WordPress | Tagged Backup Files, Backup Tape, Blogs, Command Line Tool, Disaster, Export Import, High Priority, Home Directories, Hosting Companies, Hosts, Measures, Mysql, Phpmyadmin, Security Updates, Shared Hosting, Snapshot, tools | Leave a response
How to set up an auto-posting blog
By Bloggington on March 25, 2009
This is something I have seen come up in comments on various webmaster and blogging related forums, but have never really paid much attention to until now. Today, I decided I would set one up if only to see whether I can learn a little extra about WordPress and blogging.
A year ago, I registered a [...]
Posted in Content | Tagged auto post, blog, Cron Job, Feedwordpress, Free Plugins, Jobs, Pop Star, Scheduler, Unix, Unix Cron, WordPress | 1 Response