Ive been meaning to join MyBlogLog for a while but never got round to it. I found a great site im sure you’ll ll like called JohnTP. SilentBits, another site im sure you’ll like, uses a theme released by John. John’s site shows the latest readers of his blog via MyBlogLog. I soon noticed that a lot of great blogs use them including Darren at ProBlogger.

So i decided to give it a try tonight and i must admit, it’s way better than i expected.
I wish i had joined this ages…

I was pleased at the number of downloads the themes i released got and i hope that everyone who downloaded the themes enjoyed them.

Whilst most people have kept the copyright links on there have been some who have removed the links.

……OK, I just found one but it was a bit dissapointing.

I hope to release more themes in the future and i hope that those who do appreciate the themes being released and keep the copyright links. I will try and not let the scammers put me off from releasing more…

Tim O’Reilly last week posted his ‘Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct‘.

He has since drew up his first Draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct 2 days ago. He makes a lot of interesting suggestions including ‘We won’t say anything online that we wouldn’t say in person.’.

Hope you enjoy the read.

* Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct
* Draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct

Are you struggling to get traffic to your blog? Are your posts getting lost in the blogosphere?

No doubt there are other blogs which cover the same topic as yours. In some genres it can be hard to stand out from the crowd. Don’t be too disheartened though and try and think about what you can offer that other blogs don’t or simply can’t.

For example

• Write about topics which they haven’t covered yet
• Write about topics which you have specific experience about
• Perhaps inject some humour into your posts

You could easily expand the above…

The last thing most bloggers want to worry about is Search Engine Optimisation. Not all bloggers are directly involved in web development and quite a lot have no intention of doing so. However, im sure all bloggers want more traffic to their site as more traffic means more readers. More traffic also means more revenue (well it should!).

In this post i hope i can show that you don’t  need to be a SEO specialist to get traffic from the major search engines.

Original is Best

The major search engines use different algorithms to determine what order pages are listed when a search term is input. However, they are all striving towards providing the ’perfect’ search facility for their visitors. To do this they want the top results to be relevant.

We alll use the internet so much nowadays we sometimes forget one of the the main ways we find information on the web. Internet users link to websites and articles they like. If i find a good wordpress theme on another site i will post a link to it here because i think my visitors would benefit from it, if i come across a new flash game which is fun ill maybe post it at one of the forums i frequent to share it with everyone and if i come
across a great article on my favourite team ill email my friends about it.

Now you may be reading this and be thinking that im stating the obvious here and you would be right! However, this simple linking system is one which search engines rely upon greatly. Good websites get more links and references than bad ones, good articles get linked more than bad ones…

i found this article on the bcc website today. Its rare to find a SEO related article on a major news site. The article is called ‘Cheating’ the search engines - it basically just talks about link bombing. Link bombing is quite an old topic so i dont think theres any specific reason why they decided to cover it today.

Ive repeated the article below or if you prefer, check out the original article here.

We have come to expect a lot from search engines.

Type in a phrase, and we not only…