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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Mar | 28 | 2008

Domain Name Game

Posted by Guru as Hosting, Tips I was reading Jimmy's post on having your own domain. I agree that having your own domain is a sign that you take your blog seriously or at least value your blog enough to spend a little money on it so you won't have a .blogspot or .wordpress domain. In the post Jimmy said that choosing your own blog domain could be a tool for SEO because you can opt to have your primary keywords in your domain name. Aside from the keyword factor though having your own domain also has other long term benefits including: reputation - While having ...

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Nov | 30 | 2007

Domain Name: A Small Investment with Big Rewards

Posted by Guru as Hosting, Marketing and Search Optimization, Tips Thanks to weblog services such as Wordpress and Blogger, blogging has become so easy and popular. With the improvements in weblog services even first time bloggers that know nothing of HTML can set up their own blogs in a few minutes and put up their first post. Customization is also no problem since the services make room for more advanced users to configure their blogs according to their needs and taste. And this all for free! Everyone loves free stuff and the same goes with bloggers. However, there are times when shelling out just a little money is the ...

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Apr | 28 | 2007

Staying On-Topic When Blogging

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Hosting, Templates, Terminology, Tips For most bloggers, the ideas running in their heads will most likely become distorted due to anxiety and the desire to be able to expound on various topics of concern properly. This is only normal but just like in any activity that they are very much inclined to prove, the need to discipline and take into consideration that they should not get off topic must be observed. Focused Writer

The issue here is that readers will not be too forgiving in making criticism, taking them to levels where they would bash bloggers at will once they have ...

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Mar | 01 | 2007

Blogging to be Different

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Hosting, Images, Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Monetization, Opinion, Plugins, Promotion, Submissions, Syndication, Terminology, Tips, Writing People who blog will always have something different to share. Specializing in a certain category will bring out the best in most bloggers since they are actually focusing on something that many people would love to know about. It is never a good thing to be in a dispersed type of a style where a person would have to cover other areas and categories. Focusing on Blogs

For example, if a person would want to focus on business, he should remain in that are and separate his interest on lifestyles in romance since they ...

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Feb | 11 | 2007

Video Blogging and Podcasts Today

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Hosting, Linking, Syndication, Videos Blogging is not primarily focused on purely writing. Bloggers can resort to photo blogs and video blogs as well, two elements that are widely in demand as well today. Vlogging has garnered headway from recent years, most of it coming from the incremental and large demand for video podcasting and downloads towards iPod video devices that are quite present in the world today.

Streaming video in different forms such as music videos, film clips and other home-made videos have been searched for on the Internet today. Such has been the ...

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Jan | 12 | 2007

Start-Ups with Blogger.com

Posted by Professor as Creating a Blog, Hosting, Marketing and Search Optimization, Tips, Writing A blogger would usually be directed towards Blogger.com when they are about to put up and start their blog. A mixture of being exposed to pure blog composition and a little bit of basic html programming, such can be compared to the free website creation offered by websites like Geocities and Tripod. While people who are not exposed to such may find it difficult and complicated at first glance, everything is really elementary once they store the proper knowledge from reading reference materials and some initial research. ...

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Dec | 17 | 2006

Why go for a hosted blogging service?

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Hosting, Tips internet place to be

This blog has been talking about choosing the hosted blogging service for you. Be it WordPress.com, LiveJournal, or Blogger, there are actually plenty of others out there. But why choose any one of these instead of having your own domain or something? If you are new to blogging, there are things that you might not know how to deal with. Like choosing a good hosting service. Should you go for Dreamhost or PowWeb, etc? How do you install the blogging software? How will you deal with the ...

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Nov | 30 | 2006

Blogger (without the beta)

Posted by Professor as Blogging News, Hosting

The beta has been removed from Blogger, and it's finally feature-complete. That means that not only are the interfaces available in a few other languages (French, Italian, German and Spanish so far), it also means the long-awaited ftp support is finally here. Also all new accounts are not created in Blogger beta. New bloggers can still choose to create their accounts on the old Blogger if they're joining a team blog or if they're using a language that hasn't been added to the new version yet. Bloggers can now use FTP to publish their ...

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Nov | 26 | 2006

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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