Blogging
Reaching a Blog Spam Milestone!
Earlier this year, I installed Askimet, so that I could easily put a stop to blog comment spam on this site.
This month, I reached a blog spam milestone of sorts — over 10,000 pieces of spam blocked — in my sleep! Hurrah!
Blog comment spam is a scourge — and it’s a big reason why many […]
Instead of e-newsletters, why not blog?
If you have an active blog, there might be a much easier way to stay in touch with your customers than writing and delivering e-newsletters.
For starters: Why not put a double-opt-in email script for your blog feed into the sidebar of your blog? That way, when you add a new post to your blog, your […]
Do You Make These Blog Mistakes?
As long as I’m ranting about web usability and blogs today, let me ask you:
Which of these Top 10 blog mistakes do you make?
Or is ten not enough?
What about:
The Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make?
Too many?
How about 7 Mistakes?
Too confusing?
How about just the #1 Mistake?
The Alarming Truth About Blog Mistakes: Do a Google search […]
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Meets Web Usability
“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.”
-Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
I actually quoted this passionately to two clients this month. It’s a favorite new-age Richard Bach quote (also used last century in a Sting ditty) — but it also applies […]
Related Posts Plug In for Wordpress
This week, I added the free and useful Related Posts Plugin for Wordpress to this site. If I wasn’t so tired, I’m sure it would have taken me less than 30 minutes to install it and set it up!
What does the Related Posts Plugin do? Every time I write a new blog post, I select […]
Fun with Web 2.0 BS
For those of us who sarcastically love buzzword bingo and corporate cliches — may I recommend the Web 2.0 BS generator? Jolly fun!
Easy to use, and you can generate hip, trendy, meaningless marketing materials on the fly!
(For even more fun, also see the Web 2.0 tag generator – which pooped out the list you see below!)
Flogging for Search: Beware of this Dangerous Approach!
If you get a phone call from a “web traffic expert” who suggests you can ”get more traffic” through blogging because it “helps with search engine traffic” — be careful.
These guys and gals are floggers. Flogging is a mashup term that means “fake blogging”. Floggers propose, for a hefty fee, to:
Set up your blog
Write x-number of keyword-rich posts a month […]
This Blogger Has No Shoes!
You know the old idiom “the cobbler has no shoes?” Well, in this instance, the blogger has no shoes! Sure, I’m barefoot as I’m typing this post. But that’s not what I mean.
I mean that I’ve been a bad blogger for a few weeks. I haven’t been keeping up with my posts. And I have two […]
How many blogs are out there?
Blogs are easy to start. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can start one.
(In this online video, I show you how you can start a blog for free — in under five minutes!)
But keeping your blog alive with fresh, interesting content is what really, um, counts.
Every quarter for the past few years, Technorati […]
Flickr Lets You Blog Photos
Reflections
Originally uploaded by powerbooktrance.
Get a free account at Flickr, and you can share photos at your blog. Not just your own photographs, but the photos of others who are eager to share their work.
Here’s how:
1 Get a free account at Flickr.
2. Go to Your Account > Your Blogs > Set Up a New Blog.
3. Let […]
