Jul | 30 | 2010

Blogging with photos

Posted by Professor as Creating a Blog, Hosting, Images

Sometimes a picture is truly worth a thousand words. If you prefer showing off your photography or art skills rather than your words, you can always make a photoblog. A photoblog is a type of blog that gets regularly updated with photos, though it's not the only content it can have. Offer a bit of poetry to go with the breathtaking mountain view you took on a vacation or explain what it means to you. Chronicle an event through a series of photographs and make your readers feel like they were there. Or simply share ...

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Jul | 23 | 2010

Change your blog’s color scheme

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Design, Design and Themes, Templates, Tips colors

Example of funky colors. Colors could definitely enhance one's blog You can never get too creative when it comes to your blog. There are so many ways you could tweak it. If you like experimenting with colors, go ahead and try these sites. You could find so many color schemes that could suit your taste and the overall theme of your blog. Colourlovers Colourlovers is an awesome site! You could get all sorts of ideas for your blog because there are palettes available. You get to see new palettes, new colors and the ...

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Jul | 02 | 2010

The importance of making static pages for your blog

Posted by Professor as Blogging Tools, Tips, Writing WordPress pages

If you are using WordPress, you can have static pages. What are static pages and what can you use them for? Static Pages These are pages that are more or less stay as they are. They are more often than not pages that contain the information that you would like your visitors to have access to. The information could be about you and or your blog. What could you use static pages for? About page Give more information about you, your blog. Writing a nice page to introduce your blog and yourself is great but wouldn't ...

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Jun | 14 | 2010

The Dreaded Blog Spammers

Posted by Professor as Spam, Tips spam

Referrer values are passed by web browsers and show how a page was come by. Let's say you search on Google for websites about a particular subject. If you click on a search result from a to visit a website then the destination website will have an entry in its access logs showing a referral from the originating website, Google. Referrer values can be very useful in applications such as security and are essential to webmasters as they show how their site is being linked to. From a web access blog that has been spammed, ...

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Apr | 30 | 2010

Video Blogging: Good Idea or Bad?

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Tips, Videos If your tired of typing away at your keyboard and want try a new platform you might want to look into video blogging. But before you start your video blog here are some things you should think about to see if it will be a good idea to go ahead or not. Content - What will you be yacking about? If your video blog will only be about your day with pretty much the same content as your personal blog then it might not be too good an idea because frankly it will just bore people to death and you'll appear ...

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Mar | 30 | 2010

Kindle for Blogs

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Monetization, Syndication Kindle, the popular e-book reader from Amazon.com, can now be used to read blogs as well. Amazon has announced that the Kindle Publishing for blogs, which means that we now have an additional platform for our blogs. According to Amazon.com Kindle blogs have the following features: Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to the Kindle and updated throughout the day. They are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so they can be read even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle contain full text content and most images. Bloggers who wish to publish their ...

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Jan | 25 | 2010

Why You Are Losing Ground in Search Results Pages

Posted by Jimmy as Marketing and Search Optimization, Spam, Tips As promised in my post Reasons for Sudden Plunge in Blog Traffic I will be discussing the possible reasons for a sudden drop in search rank. I already wrote about this in the past but concentrated on FALSE ALARMS. However, what do you do when you find out that your search rank has indeed dropped? Just like finding out the reason for a decrease in traffic, the first thing you need to do is find out WHY. Major reasons could be: 1. spam - If you are a splog then you have most likely been discovered. However, if your blog ...

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Dec | 21 | 2009

Resizing Images: Tips and Tools

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Tips When adding images to your blog posts make sure that you have resized them to a size that is not only aesthetically appealing but also SEO friendly. Resizing images is not a hard task, however, when resizing images simply recalculating the ratio may not be a good idea especially if the new image size is a lot larger than the original one. The reason for this is that the image gets pixelized and you end up with a grainy image that just isn't nice to look at. If you want to resize images beyond changing the dimensions here are some ...

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Sep | 29 | 2009

Microblogging or Good Old Traditional Blogs

Posted by Jimmy as Blogging Tools, Syndication The rise of Twitter, the most popular microblogging site nowadays, has of course helped microblogging itself come a long way - from mere short posts to get in touch businesses and organizations has found ways and is continuing to find ways to make use of and benefit from microblogging. But what is microblogging and how does it differ from good old traditional blogging? Wikipedia defines microblogging as “a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send BRIEF text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a ...

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Aug | 31 | 2009

Upping Your Blog’s Loading Time

Posted by Jimmy as Hosting, Software and Widgets, Tips Wondering why your blog has a slow loading time? A quick and easy way to answer your question would be to speed test your blog. One tool I like to use to do this is Pingdom's Full Page Test. It is a free toll that helps you determine which portion of your website takes a longer time to load. According to Pingdom their Full Page Tests works by... "load[ing] a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects ...

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