Auto tagging plugins
By Bloggington on March 24, 2009
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 [...]
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Categories or tags or both?
By Bloggington on March 18, 2009
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 [...]
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When do I add advertising to my blog?
By Bloggington on March 17, 2009
Scanning the ‘net you’ll see the entire gamut of ad configurations on blogs. From single page/post blogs awash with ad blocks and affiliate links, to blogs of many hundreds of pages/posts without a single ad.
The choice to include paid advertising on a blog should not be made lightly as it can impact user experience and [...]
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10 blogging tips to build a successful blog
By Bloggington on March 17, 2009
The techniques used to build a successful blog are ever-changing as new methods linearly supplant the old, and innovative methods of driving traffic to blogs open up new frontiers to the blogger.
Here is a brief survey of ten proven methods for constructing a successful blog.
i. Add content to your blog frequently and consistently. If possible, maintain [...]
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Embedding adsense in blog posts
By Bloggington on March 10, 2009
Once you have decided your blog has reached the stage where you would like to add some paid advertising to it, then Google AdSense is one of your many choices.
Frequently, bloggers who use AdSense wish vary their ad positioning and make their ad blocks prominent in certain kinds of posts. These are good ideas. But [...]
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Blogger’s Block
By Bloggington on March 5, 2009
Akin to writer’s block is blogger’s block. We all know the symptoms: you sit at the compter staring in to a blank new post window. What will you write? How will you start? Oh, wait a minute, I haven’t checked my email in the last 15 minutes. I really must do that first. And what [...]
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Enabling nested (threaded) comments on WordPress
By Bloggington on March 5, 2009
Until recently, I’d always used the excellent thread comment plugin by 偶爱偶家 for nested commenting on Wordpress. It is a very reliable and feature-rich plugin.
However, the latest version of WordPress has nested commenting built in to the core. It’s just not turned on by default. I think the reason for being disabled by default is [...]
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Google’s fast indexing
By Bloggington on March 4, 2009
For a while now, Google has been indexing blogs at an incredibly fast rate. After publishing an article, googlebot visits almost instantaneously. However, until recently I had not taken notice of how soon the post is exposed in the index. It’s one thing having the page visited, it’s another to have it appear in search [...]
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Blog Traffic with Twitter
By Bloggington on March 1, 2009
Twitter is a relative newcomer to the social networking arena, but for the budding blogger /webmaster it offers plenty of opportunity to generate web traffic.
If you do not have a Twitter account, then you should get one right away. As a blogger, your next step should be to review and install some of the Twitter related [...]
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Get more comments on your blog
By Bloggington on March 6, 2009
A question frequently asked on many blogging and webmaster related forums, particularly by beginner bloggers, is: how do I get people to comment on my blog?
There are several things you can do to increase the likelihood that, and frequency with which, people comment on your blog.
Install comment friendly plugins
There are a couple of plugins that incentivise blog [...]
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