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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 [...]
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 of changes [...]
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 [...]
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 I [...]
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 a [...]
Auto tagging plugins
I have been testing two auto tagging plugins recently.
The first if the WP-Auto-Tagger. This plugin uses the Yahoo! API to query content for common tags. It has a manual suggest button and an auto-tag feature that will automatically tag posts when they are published.
The second is the Calais Auto Tagger. Again this uses an API [...]
Categories or tags or both?
It is easy to become confused about the role of each of these Wordpress features, so let’s look briefly at the role of each.
Categories afford the opportunity for broad categorization of posts. Much like the categories in a web directory, Wordpress categories allow bloggers to choose compartments in to which to sort posts based on their principal content. It is [...]