Blogging Tips

A few blogging news updates

Here is a selection of various blogging news and articles from the last week. Enjoy

Nintendo Contractor Fired for Blogging

Jessica Zenner, a 33 year old contractor for Nintendo, was sacked last week for having a personal blog. Her blog was essentially just an online diary of her life as a mother, wife and employee of nintendo (visit her blog …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 26th, 2007 and filed under Blogging News
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The Next Google PageRank Update

It has been quite some time since Google updated its PageRank, which is calculated using various factors but primarily based on the quantity and quality of links to your site. It looks like a PageRank update could be coming very soon, and it is certainly something many bloggers and webmasters have been anticipating.

At GetFoundNow.com, Michael Stankard theorizes that the recent changes to the Google Webmaster tools have been the reason for …

Written by kelbycarr from Kelby Carr
Posted on September 25th, 2007 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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WordPress 2.3 Released

I gave you all a sneak preview of Wordpress 2.3 yesterday. This morning WordPress officially released version 2.3.

Here is the official announcement from WordPress (see original post here)

I’m thrilled to announce that Version 2.3 “Dexter” of WordPress is now ready for the world. This release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements, and much more. This release is named for the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.

The entire …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 25th, 2007 and filed under WordPress
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Links Roundup – September 25th 2007

do you offer a full-text feed? then advertise it! – A good tip from Muhammad Saleem, advertise the fact you offer a full rss feed to subscribers.

I want the iPod Video Nano Blog Contest – Jason Blanton is offering an iPod nano to anyone who helps promote his blog.

Top 23 Contest Blogs on the Web: The Ultimate List – Contest Blogger lists the top contest blogs on the web …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 25th, 2007 and filed under Links
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DMoz could be getting dropped by Google – About frickin time!

I cam across a post today by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Land regarding the open directory project (aka Dmoz).

They realised that Dmoz isn’t listed when you search for dmoz on Google. Fingers crossed that is an indication Dmoz is finally going to go to the website graveyard in the sky. Dmoz has been currupt for as long as I can remember, I once waited more than 2 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 24th, 2007 and filed under Internet News
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Three Main Components of A Great Blog

DYNAMIC WEB CONTENT IS NEEDED TO PULL WEB VIEWERS TO YOUR BLOG SITE
What is the best way to generate heightened text to really get every web reader to your site excited by reading your blog? This can be done by using the fundamentals of web writing 101 when you start to begin writing every article or blog in your every day life. It is a known fact that while newspaper and magazine …

Written by Rob Mead from Perfect Web Content
Posted on September 24th, 2007 and filed under Writing
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Giving away an iPod Video Nano

Success For Your Blog is helping you get your holiday shopping started early by giving one lucky person an iPod Video Nano. To enter simply write a post about Success For Your Blog and include a couple links to blogs that you read. This is my way of helping spread the link love around the blogosphere.

So here’s how you enter
Post an …

Written by jblanton from Success For Your Blog
Posted on September 24th, 2007 and filed under Competitions
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