Monthly Archives: June 2008
When Twitter goes down, use Twiddict
Social Media Twitter has been down a lot recently so I’m sure many of you will be interested to know about Twiddict. In brief, Twiddict is a service which lets you use Twitter when its down. Twiddict then tries contacting the Twitter API to submit your Tweet when it is back online. It seems to work pretty well in practice and I recommend checking it out. Link : Twiddict
Continue readingBloggingTips Simplicity Theme Released
WordPress Themes The Simplicity WordPress Theme is a basic yet effective theme which we have released under the Creative Commons License. To see the theme in action please visit the Simplicity Demo Page. By default the sidebar only has 3 areas : Subscription, Recent Comments and Recent Posts. The theme is widget ready so you can add more to the sidebar very easily however I wanted to keep things simple with this theme. I think this would be a great theme for ...
Continue readingIndex Your Posts
WordPress Coding & Design When you write a post on WordPress a visitor can see this post on a variety of pages – the front page, the category page(s) that the post is under, the archive page, the author’s page, the tag page(s), plus, of course, the single post page. If you display the full post on each of those pages then there’s the potential for duplicate content issues. That aside it also doesn’t allow for easy navigation through your site to ...
Continue readingTo ID or not to ID.
CSS The diffrence between an ID and Class was something I was largely ignorant too for some time at the beginning of my jumping onto the CSS bandwagon and abandoning tables for layouts. I used them both, probably incorrectly, but stuck with class for most of my layouts. It took a while before I even bothered to inquire as to what the diffrence was between id and class, and lucky for you I’m going to share that morsel of knowledge. ID, using ...
Continue readingHow To Get More And More Karma Points In Mixx
Social Networking Mixx has a unique feature called the karma points which is one of the factors which decides whether you should be given a power user status in mixx or not. I wrote two posts in the last two weeks about mixx. One is on why you should join mixx and the other is on mixxing etiquette. Please read those two posts also if you want to know more about mixx. What Is Karma Point? Mixx has this feature in it which allows you to accumulate points for each ...
Continue readingGet Self Published On Amazon With CreateSpace
Making Money, Writing Many writers love the idea of getting published in real print one day. While it isn’t a necessity, it is certainly an option we have without us realizing it. In fact, the other day I received an email from a person who asked me about getting published. I referred him to Google, since a quick search reveals plenty of ways to get self published as a writer. It’s not just for writers either A common platform many use is called Lulu. I ...
Continue readingGive Yourself an SEO Boot Camp
Search Engine Optimisation Do you ever find that you don’t know or remember how you starting ranking well for certain keywords and keyphrases? Have you ever wished you had a guide of how you succeeded in one area of SEO so that you could follow the exact same steps on a current project? I certainly have. In fact, I’m going through this right now. You see, I have a site in the political niche that currently enjoys just under 5,000 unique visits per day. The ...
Continue readingHow to set your blogging rates
Writing Writing for other blogs is a good way to get yourself noticed in your niche and can make you a little cash on the side too. One of the decisions you have to make when writing for other people is deciding how much you charge per post. This can sometimes be difficult to determine. Obviously you want to make as much money as you can but you don’t want to price yourself out either. There are basically two ways to get a blog position. Either ...
Continue readingHow to Design the Perfect Blog for Your Business
Blogging As I alluded to in the post, 2 Reasons You Must Keep Blogging at Your Old Blog When You Move to Another Domain, getting a professionally designed blog hosted on your own domain is the best way to go if your blog is an integral part of your business. “But,” you may be thinking, “I don’t know anything about designing a blog. How do I know what to consider?” Following is a checklist of considerations I took into account before ...
Continue readingCompare your FeedBurner subscriber count with others
Blogging I found a great little tool tonight called FeedCompare. FeedCompare is a free online service which allows you to compare your feedburner count with other blogs. To compare blogs all you need to do is enter the feedburner feed address of each blog (or the short name extension eg ours is Blogging-Tips). The site then builds up a graph showing you how your blog and others have grown over 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 months. Definately worth checking out if ...
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