Monthly Archives: September 2007
WordPress 2.2.3 released
WordPress Yesterday WordPress released another security upgrade. The upgrade should just take 5 minutes so I reccomend upgrading your files when you have time. 2.2.3 is a security and bug-fix release for the 2.2 series. Since this is a security release, we suggest you upgrade immediately. Two of the fixes are high priority. On our Trac you can see the bugs closed and the files changed for 2.2.3. To get 2.2.3, please see our download page. As always, ...
Continue readingInspiration
Design & Coding We all get our inspiration from various sources, whether it be movies and television, or nature and the outdoors. But Patrick Haney’s web design inspiration set on flickr is a resource that I continually come back to, and with over 400 of the web’s most beautifully designed sites it’s not hard to see why. Not only is Patrick not a sausage, he is a good friend of mine from back in the deviantArt days and a respected figure ...
Continue readingTop 100 Make Money Online Blogs
Making Money Mark from 45n5 is just about finished his list of top 100 making money online blogs. I’ve seen a few of these lists before but this is the first one I can recall which exclusively lists making money online blogs. The list uses Google PageRank, Technorati Authority and Alexa to determine the order of the websites. It’s a very simple concept but it is also a very useful page for finding making money online type blogs. Definately worth ...
Continue readingControl WordPress Duplicate Content with Excerpts
Search Engine Optimisation The SEO world is rife with misinformation and one example is the issue of duplicate content. How Google handles duplicate content is often misunderstood. Webmasters fear the dreaded dup content penalty, but actually, there is no such thing as a dup penalty. However, the way that Google handles duplicate content can sometimes mimic a penalty, thus causing confusion and the spread of misinformation. So how does Google handle duplicate content? ...
Continue readingSnarky Blogging – Part 2
Blogging, Writing “Just the place for a Snark!” begins Lewis Carrol’s The Hunting of the Snark. But the blogosphere? You bet. Today’s new media provides plenty of snark as I mentioned in Snarky Blogging – Part 1. Snark – Sometimes explained as a contraction of snide and remark. When it comes to the subject of snarky blogging there are just about as many opinions about it as there are blogs themselves. But snarky business blogging? Google ...
Continue reading5 Vlogging Basics
Video Blogging So one of the greatest things about blogging is that it has given everyone an opportunity to have a voice. Whether or not anyone hears that voice, mind you, is something else, but at least individuals can now publish their view points without the mainstream media as an intermediary. Well, the written word isn’t the only medium that new media has freed from the grips of mainstream media control. Sites such as YouTube have eliminated the ...
Continue readingHow to stop someone hotlinking your images
Design & Coding One week ago I wrote about how you can fight back against the scrapers, the content stealing scamming idiots who rip off posts from hard working bloggers. Since then, BloggingTips has unfortunately been scraped a few more times. A blog about nothing, Elina from MyLlilAdventure and David from Pure Blogging were all kind enough to send me an email about two sites they found scraping me. Thanks guys, I really appreciate your support The blogs which ...
Continue readingPlagiarism: the occupational hazard of bloggers
Writing Using someone else’s words to make a point is all too easy these days, when all you have to do is run a quick search on a topic and pull a few sentences off a stranger’s website. So when is it okay to use someone else’s content to enhance your own point? And when is it okay for someone else to quote you? First of all, it’s never acceptable to quote someone without indicating that you’re quoting. Writing someone else’s words as if ...
Continue readingThink like a visitor, make your blog friendlier
Blogging Many a times or rather always, when one writes articles on his blog, he writes them from the administrator’s point of view. Many likes to think he’s the orator and there are millions gathered up impatiently to listen to him. I’ve heard some guys even wears the admin cap. Whew! How much of this is true to you? Do you always see things and delivers it from the “speakers” point of view? Well, some completely do, ...
Continue readingExtending the Life of a Post
Blogging If you are a blogger that posts new content frequently you are probably in the habit of posting an article and immediately moving on to your next idea. Many times we forget that an older post (maybe even just a few days older) can still do some good for our readers and for our blog (in terms of promotion). Why Would You Want to Extend the Life of a Post? A post has not drawn as much traffic as you would like, or you think it has more value. It ...
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