Aug | 30 | 2007

My Opinion on Link Baiting

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Creating a Blog, Linking, Opinion, Submissions, Tips, Writing Because of this post on Guru's post on succesful link baiting it came to me as an idea that there is also one form of link baiting which I do often. I post exagerated articles like this for example : A Day without Coffee at the QuickStop. I know , I exagerated a bit but heck it did give me a whole lot of traffic, I didn't lie. I just added a couple of hours, to make my post seem more exciting. Plus, another successful form of link baiting is debunking rumors or news about something which is accepted as ...

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Aug | 04 | 2007

Don’t be a Tagboard Whore

Posted by Phillip as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Linking, Promotion, Tips Tagboards are very useful for a beginning blogger for two chief reasons: They provide the blogger’s readers a hassle-free venue to give feedback or compliments; and They allow the blogger to easily build relationships (e.g. link exchange) with other bloggers by commenting on their tagboards. While there is nothing wrong with the latter – going around the tagboards of people and saying hello – this tactic is often abused (consciously or unconsciously) by many bloggers. There are bloggers whose obvious purpose is just to advertise their own sites, leaving messages such as “Dropped by”, “Visit my blog”, or worse, just smilies. For regular visitors ...

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Jul | 20 | 2007

Three Blogging Gadgets

Posted by Brix as Blogging Tools If you were to get electronic devices for blogging, get three basic types of gadgets: A Laptop A Digital Camera A Internet capable cell Phone Optionally, get a bluetooth connector to hook up your laptop and cellphone. Personally, I use these: A Compaq Presario B1957TU - This small yet powerful laptop comes at only 1.79kg. It has Windows Vista Basic and is a Core Duo. I honestly would've preferred a Sony Vaio but that was way beyond my budget. Don't get too small a laptop (they keyboard would be too small). A Simple Canon PowerShot 3.2 Megapixel camera - a simple ...

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Jul | 10 | 2007

The CAPTCHA has been pwnd!

Posted by Jeff as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Spam So, you think CAPTCHAs would cut your spam comments in half? Well, think again. Just a little over a year after Google let loose audio CAPTCHAs (the most common implementation of which is an accessibility icon next to visual, or image CAPTCHA, that play a recording of a series of numbers and/or letters, dumbed down by some background noise) to the brewing security-conscious public, it appears that this, too, has been defeated. Security company BitDefender reports identifying a new Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, taking over and zombify-ing machines, using unsuspecting users' computers to generate Yahoo! and Hotmail ...

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Jul | 05 | 2007

Use FeedBurner Stats PRO and MyBrand For Free!

Posted by Ia as Blog Tutorial, Blog Tutorials News, Blogging Tools

Leading feed-pimping website FeedBurner is now offering its PRO services completely free. There is no catch. And people who have been signed up for PRO accounts will not be billed for June 2007 onwards. What do you get with a FeedBurner PRO account? Two things.

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Jun | 27 | 2007

A few reminders on third-party Image Hosting

Posted by Jeff as Blogging Tools, Design Features, Images, Tips If you have a blog that's hosted in Wordpress.com, or Blogspot, or any other free* service, or if you have unlimited resources, that is, truckloads of money to pay for all that uncapped web space, you may be least likely concerned about the gigabytes that images can easily consume from what you have arranged with your webhost of choice. The rest of us common men with an inkling of what saving both gigabytes of allocation and the bandwidth needed to pump out all those images may consider hosting these on a separate service, or outsourcing to a third-party image hosting ...

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Jun | 20 | 2007

Protect Important Folders in your Blog

Posted by Ia as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Tips Bill Hartzer's recent post reminds us to mask some of the more sensitive spots in your blog. Although this is only applicable to self-hosted blogs, I think everyone will benefit from this tip of keeping your blog secure. It's another one of those tasks we should do habitually but often forget. Here's how it works: we should not allow sensitive directories on our blogs to list their contents publicly. We do not want malicious visitors getting any hints on how they can compromise our websites. We should not let search engines list irrelevant folders in their results. Hartzer wrote specifically about denying other people access to one's WordPress plugins directory, but when you go through your site carefully, you'll notice several more directories you might want to protect:

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Jun | 18 | 2007

Make Every 13th of the Month Your Blog Backup Day

Posted by Ia as Blogging Tools, Tips Here's a great campaign I bumped into: every 13th of the month is unofficially Blog Backup Day. How many times have we lost important information just because we never make it a point to (regularly) backup? Blogging is no exception. If you value your blog and have spend lots of hours writing new posts, customizing the template, and promoting it to other people---which you probably do, since you're here---you had better back up your blog as often as possible. What I like about Blog Backup Day is how it wants you to start the habit by setting a definite schedule and ...

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Jun | 16 | 2007

25% Of Your Visitors Use FireFox And More…

Posted by Brix as Blogging Tools, Software and Widgets Benj talked about Perception manipulation and statistics. He briefly talks about how numbers can affect visitors on your site. This brings us to something important for your blog - analytics. This involves the the data collected on your website - about your visitors and how they interact with your web pages. Why is this important? Through analytics tracking, you can determine what browsers visitors are using, what's their screen resolution, and what operating system they use. You can also determine from what country they came from. For Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes, you can find out what 'keywords' ...

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Jun | 08 | 2007

Are Your Blog Visitors Too Lazy To Comment? Try ClickComments

Posted by Ia as Blogging Tools, Community Building Blogs are nothing without the communities surrounding them. Listing your blog in directories and other social sites, as well as linking and trackbacking to get noticed may be good and all, but without reader feedback in the form of comments, you're essentially talking to the wind. The good news is, it's not always your fault. A lot of people find the process of commenting cumbersome: having to register, leave sensitive information (such as one's email address), and come up with an original comment.

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