I always read other peoples blogging tips but have not yet seen anyone promoting the use of the Tags function in Wordpress 2.5 or later versions.
I have recently updated all of my blogs and enabled the tag function and have seen search engine result placements rise pretty quickly.
It would appear that bots and spiders are [...]
If you haven’t done so already I would recommend downloading Piclens, a fab application for viewing photos, websites, media on your screen.
I picked this on from 30DC and will be using it to view images on Google in future and when choosing from stock images.
Don’t let me hold you up from downloading this a minute [...]
I’m trialling the fish theme for it’s feed features and layout and have already noticed a small increase in people picking up my feeds on Flock, the newly launched social-bookmarking-friendly-browser.
I was put onto this by the 30DC team and have spent the last 2 days optimising it and not have all my favourite feeds at [...]
I locked myself out of my blog whilst blogging from my mobile, and have now setup a unique user to blog whilst on the road.
For the life of me I could not recall my password, hence the inactivity for a few days.
Back up and running again now so I’ll update my blog with snippets about [...]
The Gunning-Fog Index is a rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content of a document. The lower the number, the more understandable the content will be to the reader.
1 is primary school age where 17 is post-graduate level
My blog scores a rating of 7.55 [...]
I’m testing out a new toy at present, Audacity - an audio tool to help with my podcasting ambitions (soon to be revealed)
On the surface, Audacity seems easy to use (after a very quick 30 second install)
The clarity is incredible, and for an open-source program you can’t beat the value-for-money aspect either.
I have an endless [...]
This month’s lineup (aka the usual suspects) at webwednesdays can be found here.
The evenings are informal but well structured. If you’re reading this blog, and have a free night on Wednesday (naturally) then pop along from 7pm to meet and chat with up to 60 regulars and newcomers to the offline internet-entrepreneur evening making an [...]
I decided to allow comments on my blog, but have since switched this function back off after being hit with numerous spams from an identifiable ip address. Most were for mobile phone companies and some for donkey-porn, all were blocked. I hate spam (and have several recipes to make use of the huge amount I [...]
Tip #1: Don’t be afraid to charge for your services
Tip #2: Set out reasonable expectations
Tip #3: Set out the timeframe
Tip #4: Deliver
Tip #5: Feedback and referrals
A topic being bandied about tonight at Web Wednesdays was ‘charging for your services’
At which point in time should a business start ‘charging for their services’?
The answer is this ~ [...]
Most blog entries are conceived and written on the day of posting, but a few are planned days/weeks in advance.
However, many blogs are neglected for extended periods, with their readers not returning to check the new content.
The thirst for information is growing and there are numerous blogs these days focussing on niche markets, which can [...]
