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Is Your Web Host Throttling Your Blog?
Blogging If your blog is experiencing a slowdown, it could be because your host has throttled it. Here’s my story. I’d noticed that it was taking a little bit longer to access my blog. I had also noticed that my weekly WebCEO report showed that my site was woefully slow. I had a look in my WordPress dashboard and decided I needed more help, so I opened a support ticket with my host – Bluehost. My host then said: “I see that your ...
Continue readingShould You Really Unlink Your Feeds?
Blogging One of the posts that made me think in the past week was called Unlink your feeds. It is a manifesto by Tim Maly of Quiet Babylon which calls for us to “stop automatically dumping [our] feeds from one account into another.” This is contrary to the way many of us choose to operate. When I started blogging the best advice was to spread your feed around and have it appear absolutely everywhere. When lifestreaming services started ...
Continue readingHow To Get Your Blogging Mojo Back
Blogging Has blogging been feeling a bit blah lately? Have you lost the excitement that kept your blog at the forefront of your mind every day? When you’ve been blogging for a while, it’s normal to go through a slump but you don’t want to lose your readers might you recover. Here are some tips for getting your mojo back and keeping that blog going. Get some help One of the best ways to keep your blog going while you regain your focus is ...
Continue readingRiding The Google Buzz Bandwagon
Blogging There’s been a lot of Buzz about Google Buzz since it was launched, much of it critical. One of the main criticisms was the hastily plugged privacy hole, but there have been others. I am definitely one of the bloggers that jumped on the Buzz bandwagon, mostly because I love trying out new things. One week on, I’m still using it, something that never happened with Wave. The fact that it was right there in my email made it even easier ...
Continue readingTheme Frameworks – They’re Not That Simple
Blogging Just how easy is it for bloggers to use a theme framework? Theme frameworks are generally created so you don’t have to mess around too much with the basic code. In fact in many cases you can use the theme options in the WordPress dashboard to fix your settings and get the look you want. Sitting on top of the framework (depending on the one you choose) can be a so-called ‘child theme’ which gives you a fresh look while leaving ...
Continue readingYou Can’t Kill Blog Spam With Aksimet Alone
Blogging Sorry, but it’s true. You cannot get rid of spam on your blog if you only use Aksimet if you get a lot of traffic to your site. Like most bloggers, I enable Aksimet as soon as I launch a new blog. It’s very effective when there’s not much traffic, but as soon as the comment spammers know you’re there, it’s a different story. In my experience, Aksimet alone is not enough. Over the years I have tried a lot of ...
Continue readingCut Twitter Clutter With Feedera
Blogging If you’re anything like me you may sometimes suffer from social media overload. It can get particularly bad on Twitter where you may be following hundreds or even thousands of other users. Twitter lists do a great job of helping you to focus on content from the users you care about but unless you’re on Twitter 24 hours a day, there’s always the chance that you will miss something. That’s where Feedera comes in. The ...
Continue readingAnalyze Your Blogging Business
Blogging I’m not much for making empty resolutions. I prefer to make plans and concrete goals and I prefer to back these up with good research. That’s why I spent some time at the end of 2009 analysing my blogging business. Kristen Nicole gave some good advice on preparing for a prediction post and some of what she suggests can be used to help you prepare for the next phase of your blogging business. Here are the steps I took and what I ...
Continue readingBroadcast Your Blog With Chum.ly
Blogging I recently got an invite to try out Chum.ly. Co-founder John Gotts tells us about the service in this interview. Describe Chum.ly in one or two sentences. Chum.ly is a place to broadcast your blog to people following you on SMS, Twitter, Facebook, Blogspot, and ultimately all of the tops social sites, to receive updates from these sites in one place, to post beyond 140 characters on Twitter, etc. with a link back to all of you post on Chum.ly, ...
Continue readingDragon Naturally Speaking — A Great Tool For Bloggers
Blogging Have you ever wished that you could write twice as much in in a single day? Have you ever thought of the number of successful blogs you could have if only you had the time to write enough posts? I have rediscovered a tool that can make you an even more productive blogger. It’s called Dragon NaturallySpeaking and it is speech recognition software. My history with Dragon This is not the first time I have tried Dragon NaturallySpeaking. In ...
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