I hit the jackpot on good plugin finds today for all you junkines. This morning I found myself sitting face to face with a site called Coffee 2 Code and a long list of WordPress 2.5 compatible plugins. I won’t go through the whole list but here are the ones you can bet will find their way into my... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
I found two new blogs (new for me) that have really given me some insight which I will try and expand on later, but for now you really should be reading these blogs or getting the feeds. First Is Copy Brighter, which is full of great tips on reputation building. Zac Johnson is very knowledgeable with... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
I promised a post not so long back on how to make the most of Twitter for blogging. In the mean time a couple of big name blogs ShoeMoney and ProBlogger have gotten into twitter pretty hard and can give you their takes on the networking with your fans side of it better than I can so I would suggest... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
One of the best techniques for really driving traffic to your site is the use of keywords and knowing just how to use them Wait! Wait! Stop! I know some of you are thinking other blogs say keywords are dead and don’t matter to your PageRank or this or that program because they can be manipulated. ... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
Yeah right, not if you are talking about a blogging god. The one thing Bloggers need to do is realize that they have readers who want to see something new out of them every day. Frankly that is also the quickest way to burn out as a blogger, especially for those of us managing multiple blogs. There... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
I am surprised these days how many people still don’t know what an RSS/XML/Atom feed is. Almost every website be it a blog or anything else has some variation of that nice little orange symbol that looks like this: Okay now that you all know what those are, the question some of... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
Just when I thought my LJ Blog was just a cross post repository for my other blogs so my friends could keep in touch with what I am doing along comes the a surprising number of Google hits to The Other Blog and I find that they are being directed from my LJ which had this nice hand slot of second position... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
One of the best tools I have found of recent to help improve our blogging is the ScribeFire extension for the Firefox browser. It allows you to automatically post to your blog while surfing. It works for self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com TypePad.com LiveJournal.com, and a few others. My hopes... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
Everyone needs to go have a look at their Technorati accounts today and make sure that their posts are getting indexed properly. Because of some flaws and coding errors, and down right hacking by theme designers your Blog may be at risk. Not only is Technorati not indexing, it can very well lead... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
The first thing you notice about any blog is the theme. If you have played with as many of them as I have you start to recognize where they came from too. Most of them I see unfortunately come from stock sites leaving very little in the way of personalization. I run one basic design, a post/page... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
