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May | 25 | 2007

Learn How To Link (and Trackback)

Posted by Ia as Blog Tutorial, Linking, Tips, Writing Whether you call it the Internet, the Net, the World Wide Web, the Web, CyberSpace, or even the Intarwebs, one thing is clear: this place is composed of several different websites connected through hyperlinks. Without links, we won't be able to move from one website to another. Since blogging is a subset of the online world, it is important to realize the value of linking.

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May | 23 | 2007

Act Your Age on Your Blog!

Posted by Ia as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Your blog should reflect your age. By blog I mean your whole blog: your posts, your comments (read: possible arguments with other people), your blog's design, and the general objectives of your blog. That's the summary of this whole post. Of course, there will be follow-up questions to that. Like "what does acting my age mean, writing-wise?" or "what should I not be saying if my age is so and so?" So let's be a little more specific.

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May | 18 | 2007

Do You Have Blogorrhea?

Posted by Ia as Opinion, Tips, Writing Bloggers who write detailed accounts of their lives tend ramble on about the littlest details. Sometimes they're juicy (what you did during a weekend getaway with---oops!), sometimes they're a tad too colorful (how you won a hotdog-eating contest and had an appendectomy in the same day). Blogorrhea?

You don't mind, since it's unbelievably soothing to write all these details down in the free-for-all that is the Internet. But what about your readers? Your visitors? People who know you in real life? (Your boss, your teacher, your aunts and uncles, your colleagues?) Would you actually tell all these people ...

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May | 16 | 2007

How To Get Accepted Into Blog Directories

Posted by Ia as Blog Tutorial, Linking, Promotion, SEO Features, Tips Now that I've shown several ways to make yourself found in the blogosphere, let's take a closer look at one of the avenues by which visitors can reach your site. Blog Directories. Trivia: Yahoo!, one of the biggest search engines, started out as a list of links maintained by its creators called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web", which grew more complex. I'm sure the growth and popularity of Yahoo! caused so many directory-wannabes to follow suit---whether exclusive or open, free or for-a-fee---that we still use them today.

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May | 13 | 2007

Make Yourself Found! (Or, Promote Your Site Web 2.0-Style)

Posted by Ia as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, SEO Features, Tips "Nor does anyone after lighting a lamp put it under a bushel basket, but on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory..." Blogging is much like light---it's meant to be seen and used by others. (I'm not condemning bloggers who prefer to remain alone and anonymous, though.) Put another way, you're a nobody unless your name Googles well, says the Wall Street Journal. To do this, you must make yourself found.

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May | 09 | 2007

Hello world!

Posted by Ia as Software and Widgets Hello everyone! I'm Ia, another Blog Tutor signing on. While I've already head of blogging back when Blogger had URLs ending in .pyra, web design was a cinch with table layouts, and I would never have thought of paying for my own domain name and space, it would take several bouts of hesitation before I proceeded to work on my own site. But I've always been working on other people's websites (as work and hobby), and I've always been interested in the workings of the Web---from design to weird Web 2.0 names---and the easiest way I keep ...

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