Written by Mani Karthik from Daily SEO Blog on February 16, 2008

MyblogLog has released it’s brand new widget, the Recent readers widget which is very web 2.0 with gloss and curves. These guys have been continuously evolving and this is the latest weapon from their armory.

Google webmaster central has posted the 7 must read articles from Google. It’s worth bookmarking and a nice read.

There is a nice link exchange program released this week (with a nice puppy ) - Spottt. It offer free 125×125 banner/link exchanges, jump in if you haven’t already.

Ashwin Ramesh, a social media marketing enthusiast from SMMWhiz, has written beautifully about…

Written by John Leschinski from Leschinski Design on February 16, 2008

Now that you have your custom icon set up for iPhone users, here is another helpfull guide from the folks at apple to get you started on developing iPhone versions of your site. The guide has some examples on how to make content that are optimized for iPhone’s gesture-based, windowless environment.

With the iPhone accounting for larger and larger amounts of mobile browsing, despite being 2% of the smart phone market, it seems like a worth while endeavour.

But how to deliver the iPhone version too iPhone users? Browser detection, or more specifcly HTTP_USER_AGENT;…

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Written by Ramkarthik from Blogging Tune on February 16, 2008

It is true that you have to dress your blog well at the time of traffic peak. You have to get the best out of the traffic you get from any source. I wrote a post for freelance folder on the art of getting freelance work using forums and I did expect good traffic from the blog. I mainly had two links in the author info box. One was to my main page and the other was to my hire me page. I tweaked these two pages before I posted…

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Written by Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks on February 15, 2008

Option #1: Wufoo

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Wufoo is by far my favorite choice for creating forms for websites, blogs included. They have a free plan which allows you to create three different forms with 10 fields each and receive 100 submits per month. For a lot of bloggers, this is probably fine. If you outgrow that, the pricing plans are very reasonable.

With Wufoo, you design your forms right on their website and then they give you a little code snippet to place wherever you want the form. This is just as easy to embed on…

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Written by Andy MacDonald from Swift Media UK on February 15, 2008

You may have spent a lot of time and some money getting your blog designed and set up, but attracting readers isn’t a guaranteed outcome. Generating buzz about your blog doesn’t have to be painful or cost you money, but it does require some effort. In this article, you discover how to attract and increase traffic to your blog.

Written by Kris Larson from Carthage on February 14, 2008

Of all the potential Valentines out there, only one is always here for you, always interested in your life, always seeking your attention: your blog. (Also, your dog. But they don’t pay me to write about dogs here.) This Valentine’s Day, forget all that nonsense about restaurant reservations and trashy lingerie and take a moment to focus on the true love of your life. Say it with me now: Love. Your. Blog.

Dress it up pretty
Take a moment to study your blog with a stranger’s eyes. How is it looking these days?…