Monthly Archives: August 2008
Split your Twitter friends into Groups with TweetDeck
Social Media I wrote a post about Twitter Following Habits on Xfep yesterday and spoke about Michael Arrington’s recent post about Twitter needing a fake follow button so that you didn’t offend people who followed you by not following them in return. Twitter and FriendFeed have hinted that in the next few weeks a group function may be integrated into their systems which I think would be a great feature and would help prioritize who you want ...
Continue readingThe quick and easy way to create a .mobi site for your blog
Domain Names & Hosting The .mobi domain was introduced in 2005 and was made available to the public in September 2006. The domain extension was intentionally created for mobile phone users who browse the internet and has strict guidelines on how a site is designed. More specifically, .mobi sites must : Be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone Must not use a lot of bandwidth Use XHTML-MP (XHTML Mobile Profile) Not use frames Not require www before the domain ie. ...
Continue readingYour blog readers may not realise they are reading a blog
Blogging As bloggers, we sometimes forget that our readers don’t realise that they are reading a blog or even care that the website they love reading every day is powered by a blogging script. It’s something I am guilty of myself from time to time. Blog Blindness One of my friends reads a football blog everyday and he is always asking if I read the latest rumour on the site and whether I agree with what the owner said. He reads it every week ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing: How to Write a Sales-Producing Resource Box
Promote your blog Three of the last four posts I’ve written here on blogging tips have been on the topic of article marketing. This topic sparked a lot of interest, based on the number of emails asking for more information that I received directly, and in the comments section. Hence, I thought I would wrap up this “unintentional article marketing series,” by talking about the most important part of the article, your resource box. After all, you give away ...
Continue readingTwitter attacked by Virus Hackers
Blogging News The internet security firm Kaperksy yesterday reported that Twitter has been used to dupe followers into installing a malicious trojan horse on a visitors computer. The profile was in Portugese and according to Kaperksy, has all the footprints of Brazilian hackers ranging from the Portuguese, to the web servers hosting the banking malware to the email embedded in the malware which is used for receiving data from infected machines. The Twitter ...
Continue readingBlogging Tips Newsletter launched
Site News I am pleased to announce the launch of the Blogging Tips Newsletter. A Newsletter is something I have been thinking of starting for a while so I’m glad I finally got round to starting it. What will the Newsletter cover? You might be asking why you should subscribe to the newsletter if you are already subscribed to the RSS feed. This is a question I also asked myself when I first considered the newsletter as I didn’t want to exclude ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – August 5th 2008
Links How To Effectively Deal With Negative Comments On Your Blog The 7 ingredients of a wildly successful blog post Bloggers Must Have These 3 Ducks In A Row Features Planned for WordPress 2.7 Sitemeter – Causing Blogs To Crash Manage Multiple Blogs from One Login 5 Proven Ways To Elevate Your Content The Future of Blogging Revealed
Continue readingHow to artificially increase your FeedBurner count using NetVibes
Blogging Joop Dorresteijn, a contributing editor at The Next Web, has found a painfully easy way of artificially inflating the feed count of a blogs FeedBurner chicklet. Basically, all you need to do is create an OPML file with the same feed copied and pasted as many times as you want and then import this into your NetVibes account. This video explains how it works : Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo. I applaud Joop for ...
Continue readingThe difficulty of running several blogs
Blogging There has been a lot of discussion regarding blog networks recently and the challenges that arise from running multiple blogs. David Peralty, one of the co-founders of the blog network Grand Effect, wrote a great post about a week or so ago entitled ‘Blog Advertising Difficulties: Blog Network Doesn’t Mean Big Money‘. In his post David explained the difficulty in getting a good advertising rate from ad networks. Just 2 days after ...
Continue readingBlogger Clamping Down on Malware and Spam
Blogger Last week, Blogger was branded the number one host for malware across the internet in a report by security company, Sophos. Then on Friday, Blogger began a major initiative to identify and lock down potential spam blogs hosted on its’ servers in which many innocent blogs were caught in the crossfire. The result? A damaging blow to Blogger’s reputation as a reliable blog host, and many frustrated users moving their blogs over to ...
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