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Google Blog Search
Search Engine Optimisation Last week Google updated its Blog Search adding a number of features such as “Hot Queries” and the ability to subscribe to any topic via RSS or Atom. Features like these have been in other Google services for quite some time which highlights Google’s Blog Search as a minor player in the Google universe. Following on the heels of Bing’s release without a dedicated blog search, which Jonathan Bailey ...
Continue readingFeedly – Blog Reading in Style!
Software & Programs If you read a number of blogs, perhaps even too many blogs, then Feedly could be the best RSS blog reader for you. Feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page. The only downside is that Feedly is built upon Google Reader and Firefox – you need both to play. Feedly displays your Google Reader feeds in a magazine-like format, allowing you to browse over multiple categories, preview post pictures and all your ...
Continue readingAviary Screen Capture
Software & Programs It’s a pretty common task for a blogger to need a screen capture to get a picture of a Web page or grab a logo of a web site that they are writing about. While Windows, Mac and Linux include some basic tools for screen captures, most bloggers will want a screen capture tool with the ability to capture portions of pages and add text or other annotations to the captured images. What’s amazing is that the improvements in screen ...
Continue readingMonitoring Your Blog
Software & Programs One of the most frustrating events about running a blog, or any website, is when the site is not operating at 100%. Kevin just posted a blog on Has BloggingTips been down for you in response to some to some feedback from some visitors who “commented that the site has been down for them at one point or another.” It’s somewhat counter-intuitive, but it’s actually easier to solve a complete site outage than an intermittent ...
Continue readingScribnia – Review the Reviewers
Blogging It was only a matter of time before somebody turned the tables on all the writers and bloggers on the Internet. We spend our time reviewing products and services and spouting off opinions on everything from politics to technology. So now, with the beta launch of Scribnia, there is an organized way for Internet readers to comment on their favorite (and dare I say it, least favorite) Internet based authors. There are countless writers ...
Continue readingMatt Cutts Speaks on WordPress and Google
WordPress WordCamp San Francisco is a conference organized by the creators of WordPress for their user community. It was just held last weekend, May 30 and 31, in San Francisco. Highlighting the real time nature of the blogosphere, some of the presentations have already made their way onto the net. So those of us who could not make it out to the West Coast of North America can get some of the benefits of this great event. Attendees have been blogging ...
Continue readingWordPress 2.8 – Widgets, Themes and Tags (oh my!)
WordPress No software version is ever released on time with every requested feature in place – but WordPress 2.8 is looking to have a ton of new features. None of these changes have a dramatic impact on the interface, so the transition should be very easy for most administrators. WordPress Widgets One of the best features of WordPress 2.8 is the update to the widgets section. The current widget management often involves these steps: Your theme ...
Continue readingContenture – The anti-ad network
Making Money If you want to make money from a blog you have a limited number of options. The most popular approach is to run ads – typically using an ad network like Google’s AdSense. Many bloggers also join affiliate programs and post links and banners for those programs – but to the visitor it is just more ads. You can also charge a subscription fee – but you will have to have some truly unique content to pull that off and ...
Continue readingWhat makes a WordPress Plugin Great
WordPress Plugins One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for developers to add to the product. This concept is a key reason for the huge and constantly growing universe of WordPress plugins. In talking to WordPress users I’ve discovered that almost universally folks are pleased with the plugins they use. However, there are plugins that work and then there are plugins ...
Continue readingGoogle Latitude and Your Blog
Software & Programs Google just launched the Google Public Location Badge which allows you to put a Google Map on your blog (or any website) that highlights where you are at any given time. Well, to be more precise it announces where your phone is. So on those days when you forget to bring the phone with you – obviously the data is a bit less accurate. Technology aside, the bigger question is “Why would you need your location to be broadcast to the ...
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