2009
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Finding ideas for blog entries
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 [...]
Adding clean archives to your WordPress blog
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 In the past, I used Justin Blanton’s Smart Archives plugin, but this seems to have been superseded by Scribu’s Smart Archives Reloaded.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 to [...]
List of RSS feed directories
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 [...]
List of Free Blog Directories
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 [...]
WordPress v2.8 Released
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 [...]
Blog traffic from unexpected sources
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 power of blog commenting
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 [...]
Back up strategies for WordPress blogs
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 [...]
How to set up an auto-posting blog
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 [...]