Blogging Tips

Use LastPass for password management and peace of mind

Bloggers are people with a rich online life. Bloggers need to have an account on many sites that they use and frequent on a daily basis. The need for strong passwords is too well-known to be elaborated here. You cannot run the risk of having the same password on more than one site and what is more you should not choose simple passwords because you can easily remember them. Your blogging can be jeopardized if your login id and passwords are compromised in any way. The internet and blogosphere is full of horror stories of accounts and blogs being hacked for carelessness on the part of account users.

LASTPASS

Put simply, you need a tool that will manage your passwords among other things. LastPass does just that. What is more, it is free (read priceless).

LastPass can do …

Written by Vikas from Vikas Gupta
Posted on March 7th, 2010 and filed under Blogging, Productivity, Software & Programs
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Open an Affiliate Store with WP Shopping Pages

WordPress can be used for so much more than “just” a simple blog. It is a full content management system, which means that it can power just about any website that you’d like. In fact, through the use of customizations, theme templates, and plug-ins, you can convert a WordPress installation into anything your heart desires.

If you’re looking to open up an affiliate store with your website but don’t know where to get started with the coding, you may want to take a look at WP Shopping Pages. This premium plug-in makes it very easy to sell products on the Internet without having the actual products in hand.

Shopping with Amazon and eBay Affiliates

Using this WordPress plug-in, you can easily populate your website with all sorts of products available for sale through Amazon and eBay….

Written by Michael Kwan from Beyond the Rhetoric
Posted on March 6th, 2010 and filed under Reviews, WordPress Plugins
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Twittaw – Social Messaging with Threaded Conversations

“Twittaw is a social messaging service focused around threaded notes. Its main focus it to enhance the exchange of better conversations.” Since it lets you use your Twitter ID to login (via Twitter OAuth), there is no registration required. I have been using Twittaw for a few months now and it has quickly become my favorite way to have easy-to-follow conversations on the Web.

Though the community there is small, it is quickly growing  and new features are being added on a regular basis. There is a complete, extensive guide at the Twittaw blog if you’re interested in a more in-depth description of what it has to offer. …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on March 6th, 2010 and filed under Social Media
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Find Out What Other Tweeters Think of You with ViewsOnYou

ViewsOnYou for Twitter is a surprisingly addicting site that lets you rate yourself, your friends and anyone else with a Twitter account. It’s also a great way to see what others think about you and compare yourself to others. The main part of the site is used for getting professional opinions that can be used as job references. The Twitter section, though, is more simple and easier to use; plus it just makes sense with the rise of Twitter spam. If you’re ever wanting to know more about someone on Twitter and see how they rate, try looking them up on ViewsOnYou.

Whether you have used the site or not, you already have a profile page. If you prefer not to appear on …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on March 5th, 2010 and filed under Social Media
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4 Tips to Keep Your Feeds Safe(r) from Copying

Earlier today, Sharon posted an article that asks a simple, but profound question, Should you really unlink your feeds?.

The idea comes from Tim Maly who makes the compelling case that combining all of your content into one feed is disruptive to yourself, your friends and your readers. One of the major reasons is that it results in your content being duplicated all over the Web as search engines pick up both your source content and the feeds that you tell to pull from the sources (IE: Friendfeed).

However, there is another kind of RSS feed copying that is getting a great deal of attention and that’s the kind of copying that happens without permission. It’s the kind of RSS use, also known as scraping, that gives rise to spam blogs and other garbage sites, as well as other, more legitimate services.

So how do you prevent your feeds from being copied while still encouraging users to subscribe to your work and allow other legitimate works? There are many different approaches but here are four that you can take advantage of today, literally in the time it takes to read this post.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on March 4th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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Should You Really Unlink Your Feeds?

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 appearing it was a simple matter to import my blog feed to make another location where people could keep up with my content.

Why Link Your Feeds?

There are several advantages to doing this:

you make your content available in the location where people are
you increase the number of mentions you get online
as a result you might boost your social karma (if that’s important to you)

Why Linking Feeds May Be Bad

There’s no denying that a …

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online
Posted on March 4th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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Woo Your Readers with Headlines Premium WordPress Theme

Are you looking for an eye-catching new WordPress theme? One of the hotter trends is recent memory is to go with the magazine style layout and Headlines by WooThemes continues with this trend by adding a series of requested features.

The magazine style layout is a great option for all sorts of different WordPress sites, whether they are professional blogs focused on a specific niche, a company blog focusing on its own products, or any number of other applications. Headlines has been designed to be the “perfect platform to launch your magazine or blog and reach out to the world.”

A Clean and Robust Design

To give you a better sense of the Headlines theme, you can go to the live demo page.

As you can see from that page, there is a strong header area …

Written by Michael Kwan from Beyond the Rhetoric
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 and filed under WordPress Themes
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