Monthly Archives: May 2008
Castroller Identity Development
Design & Coding CastRoller is an online podcast subscription tool. Just add one personalized feed to your desktop application and let CastRoller do all of the work. When you want to subscribe to a new podcast, just add it to CastRoller. Your personalized feed will be updated to automatically contain the latest episodes from all of your favorite podcasts. I took on the project to give CastRoller a complete visual overhaul, and as usual I started with the ...
Continue readingMixxing Etiquette: How To Be A Good Mixx User
Social Networking Mixx is a social site which is growing rapidly at the recent times. In my previous post, I wrote on 3 reasons why you should join mixx. If you have joined after reading the post, thank you for taking my words. Before you start using mixx regularly, create a plan and know the etiquette of using mixx. There are certain dos and don’ts in mixx. I’ll explain what you should do in mixx in order to be a good user. A good user is someone who has ...
Continue readingConstructive Criticism – Take It On the Chin Like A Man
Blogging How do you deal with constructive criticism? Do you get all flaky when your readers chastise you on your blog or do you stand up like a man and face the facts. Regardless of the industry you blog in, you will encounter negative feedback at some stages in your blogging career. While the natural urge is to turn around and run a mile or two, you really shouldn’t and I tell you why. Criticism is good for you! When others criticize you, it ...
Continue readingShould My Blog Name Match My Domain Name?
Search Engine Optimisation During the past few months a lot of my time has been spent looking at search results and finding ways to clean up the way my sites/pages look in the SERPs. The reason for this is mainly because in one case I had two different sites ranking #1 and #2 for the same search terms, yet the #2 result was getting a much higher click through rate. The reason for this, I believe, is that the title for the site that ranked #1 was completely unrelated to ...
Continue readingAre fake stories hurting Bloggers Credibility?
Blogging This month there has been a lot of interesting debate about fake stories. More specifically, the traffic they can generate and the potential damage they can do to the authors crediblity. It all started when Money.co.uk posted a story entitled ‘13 Year Old Steals Dad’s Credit Card to Buy Hookers‘. The story reported that a 13 year old ordered a credit card through his fathers existing credit card company and then treated him and ...
Continue readingBlogRolled – Another place to sell text links
Making Money The other day I talked about a new place to sell banner ads called BuySellAds. Today I want to talk about BlogRolled, a new text advertising marketplace which is aimed at bloggers. What is BlogRolled? BlogRolled is a text link marketplace where bloggers can buy and sell text links. The difference between BlogRolled and other text link services is that links have to be specifically placed in the BlogRoll of your blog. Text links do not have the ...
Continue readingWhen Article Marketing is THE Perfect Marketing Strategy
Making Money In the post, Getting Something for Nothing: Is it Time to Give Up on Free Article Marketing?, I basically questioned if this was still a viable marketing method. I’ve since fallen in love with it again. Here’s how I made a bit of a sharper U-turn. A recently acquired client of mine has a multi-dimensional firm. She does web design, document management and computer repair. Her advertising budget is limited, and as her SEO writer (I’m ...
Continue readingA little look into how WordPress handles user roles
WordPress Over the last few days I have been looking into the user roles you can assign people to in WordPress. WordPress currently has 5 different user levels : Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor and Administrator. I have always believed that this user system was sufficient for what most blog owners needed however the more I looked into it the more I realised how limited this user system actually is because by default, you are not able to increase ...
Continue readingBetter Tags Manager WordPress Plugin
WordPress Plugins Keith Dsouza from Techie Buzz emailed me today to let me know about a new wordpress plugin he has released called Better Tag Manager. Keith decided to completely remove categories from his blog and and instead uses tags. Visitors can then search for posts using his Tag Cloud. Better Tags Manager WordPress Plugin Basically, this plugin lets you edit the tags of your posts more easily. More specifically, it allows you to edit the tags of posts ...
Continue reading11 Free Twitter Clients
Social Media Twitter is a fantastic service and really makes meeting new friends and contacts easy. More importantly, it makes keeping in contact with them a breeze. You can keep the Twitter website open on your browser all day however a Twitter Client is a much better way method of using the service. Desktop Twitter clients operate the same as other messaging systems and they will give you real time updates via pop up windows, the same way msn messenger or ...
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