Monthly Archives: May 2009
Getting Those Blog Comments
Promote your blog Getting comments on your blog means much more than just getting feedback on what you’re saying. People who take the time to respond to your blog have often bookmarked you and hopefully linked to your site. Regardless, getting blog comments is something that you should have in mind if you’re promoting your blog and want to get a better ranking. There are a few tried and true methods that help you to get these blog comments but ...
Continue readingDoes Sex Matter When Blogging?
Blogging The idea that men and women communicate differently has gained momentum in recent years and it’s a common topic in the areas of relationship advice and couple therapy. This communication theory mainly revolves around the idea that men tend to value information, facts and just want to get to the point quickly, while women tend to want more discussion and support. Whether this idea is a proven scientific fact or not, most people I’ve come in ...
Continue readingManage Your Social and Dating Lives Easily with OnePoke
Social Media OnePoke, currently in public beta, is a very simple easy to use manager for your dating and social networking accounts. OnePoke supports the following social and dating sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hi5, Frype, MyLifeList, PlentyOfFish, LavaLife, OkCupud, eHarmony, CasualKiss, PerfectMatch, and YouTube. On top of support social and dating sites, you can also manage your email accounts and read your favorite blogs. You can even update your ...
Continue readingIs Social News Traffic Worthwhile?
Blogging, Social Media As a blogger I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve reached the front page of Digg a few times, I’ve been Slashdotted a couple of times as well and I’ve even more than a few StumbleUpon storms. I’m by no means an expert on social news but, overall, it has been pretty good to me. I’m always grateful when others submit my work to any social news site and, up until very recently, I went to great, even outrageous, lengths ...
Continue readingRevisiting WordPress Custom Fields
WordPress Coding & Design A few months ago I wrote about Custom Fields in WordPress. At the time I just gave a small example of how these could be used, and a couple of people still didn’t grasp the point of them so I’m going to give a few more examples of using them which will hopefully shed some light on how useful they actually are! For the basics of using the custom fields in the admin then please read the custom fields post first. Below are just working ...
Continue reading31 Days to Build a Better Blog
Blogging News 2 months ago Darren Rowse launched his incredibly popular project ‘31 Days to Build a Better Blog‘. In total, around 13 thousand bloggers signed up to the project and every day they were emailed with a task for the and details on how they can achieve it. If you missed it, don’t worry. As today Darren launched a fully updated version of the 31 day challenge in an ebook. The book has 94 pages of content and includes a lot of new ...
Continue readingParts of Speech: Nouns and Pronouns
Writing You’ve read the title and you probably think nouns and pronouns are easy, and as far as speech goes they are probably the easiest to recognize. But we have to remember that they also have special classifications. Knowing the parts of speech can help you as a writer because understanding the functions of grammatical elements allows you to recognize agreement problems, like in subject and verb agreement. If you can identify certain ...
Continue readingTwitVid.io Adds Media Context to your Twitter Stream
Blogging TwitVid.io is the latest site to launch a tool that adds media context to your Twitter stream. What TwitVid.io does is allow you to upload a video and share the link through Twitter. Similar to its photo-centric counterparts such as TwitPic, the Fliggo-powered TwitVid.eo works by uploading video content directly from your computer and enabling you to share your uploaded content via links spread through Twitter. As a blogger, there are two ...
Continue readingServing post ratings in your blog
WordPress Plugins Certain uses for WordPress, such as a showcase or gallery site might call for a user rating system. You may also want to implement one in your blog just to see how you improve over time and how it affects your user’s experience. A popular plugin for serving up star ratings to your visitors is WP-Post Ratings. Its easy to display the rating form with a function, and you can customize the rating images in a variety of colours and styles. ...
Continue reading6 Tips to Avoid Blog Abandonment
Blogging A recent survey by Technorati found that, of the 133 million blogs they had tracked since 2002, only 7.5 million had been updated within the past four months and, of those, only 1.5 million had been updated within the past 7 days. This means that, of all the blogs Technorati has tracked, only 5.6% are active, even within the last four months, and only 1.1% are active within the past week. In short, the vast majority of blogs are abandoned. Blog ...
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