Localizing images on your wordpress blog often times is a tedious task, but something you need to do if you want to avoid hotlinking images in your blog. I hate hotlinking to images for several reasons. The first and foremost reason is it is bad form and impolite if you don’t have permission. The second thing is you have no idea when, if or how that file might change. This is less of a problem these days since disk space is cheap and people are often using image hosting services such as flickr. In the old days though it was not uncommon for perverse webmasters to put up pornographic... Read the rest of the Blogging in Black and White Article
Gauging Progress is a tough thing to do for a new blog and one of the hardest things for you to do when a blog is only ten days old. it is even harder to gauge the progress than it is to attract visitors. None the less you need to do it, just as much as you need to attract new visitors every day. Let’s take a look at Meme Connection again. Since the blog went online we have dropped our Alexa number 3.2M and that is down from 3.5 on Sunday when I checked it last and down from 7.5M on the first. i think I may well meet the goal I set of under 1M by the end of the month at this rate... Read the rest of the Blogging in Black and White Article
Starting a new site is no small task if you want to do it right. Even some of us who have been doing it for a long time still make mistakes, However most of us who are successful in this business don’t keep making the same ones. The site I am following is Meme Connection. I started the site five days ago with a stock theme from Revolution Two. I am quite pleased they have gone to open source licensing so I can give you the theme with all of my upgrades in the SEO department, because frankly it needed them. Now five days on in the blog I have linked it to a couple of my other blogs, registered... Read the rest of the Blogging in Black and White Article
In my quest to provide an every better experience for all my readers I have added a new feature in the way of the WP Link Directory. This handy plugin allows site owners to make use of the constant flow of internet traffic. Whether you are actively promoting your wordpress based site or not, this plugin also comes with some handy searchable identifiers. Like CommentLuv, NoFollow Free and KeywordLuv blogs using the WP Link Directory can seach out blogs using it by searching for “Powered by WP Link Directory“. If you don’t want potential spammers finding you that way their is the option... Read the rest of the Blogging in Black and White Article
There are a growing list of things that I already hate about WordPress 2.7. Most of them are minor issues that can either be ignored or simply written off as quirks I don’t really need to worry about for my style of blogging. The major issue is still the layout. Wordpress 2.7 Write Screen. Click to open full size in new frame or window. This is not some minor petty concern. This is flat out bad design. Any blogger worthy of the name is using some plugins and other tools on the administration side of the blog. This is as it should be, since customization has always been a prime... Read the rest of the Blogging in Black and White Article
I was asked recently how to get a 1000 visitors a day to your blog network. If you have a network it is quite easy. The more blogs you have the more content you have, and more content you have the better chance you will get hits from search results. Here is my quick list of do’s and don’ts. Content isn’t enough. You need content with good keywords and for that material to be indexed. If you run a wordpress blog the Google XML Sitemap Plugin is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal for getting indexed. If you want to be properly indexed it is highly important... Read the rest of the Blogging in Black and White Article
If you followed this post over from Blogging For Noobs, then you know this mornings story. The summation is I found a potential spamback link in my comments at the Celebrity Rumors and decided to follow it with due diligence before allowing it. it was a spamback, but it had links to a wealth of good sites worthy of showing you. Here they are. While not the most important thing in a theme, the color scheme is certainly the first thing noticed by a visitor to your blog. This handy little color scheme picker will help you come up with an appropriate scheme quickly and easily. I also found... Read the rest of the Blogging in Black and White Article
