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I’ve decided to do various experiments to see the true affect of certain actions on a live blog. Having read a number of guides, reports and pro-blogger’s advice I felt it was time to put it all into practice and see the outcome first hand.
Point I
One of the main advice given in many a guides/reports is to blog consistently on a regular basis – as this is what drives traffic to a website/blog. So for this month (January) I decided to experiment on this by posting very little in way of blog posts. Read more...(590 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)
With the advent of new blogs springing up on the net, Wordpress as a blogging platform is set to rise in popularity. The community behind this popular software is already huge and will continue to grow.
The evidence is the newly founded WordPress Foundation with its prime location at http://wordpressfoundation.org and sporting a new default theme for Wordpress. The foundation is set to add value to the already immensely valuable WordPress platform and by no means is it here to change or take over. Read more...(309 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)
The movie Julie and Julia took blogging mainstream for many who had no idea that an everyday, average individual could command attention and pursue their passion using an online technology available to the masses for free.
And it’s not just movies and rare blog success stories that make people want to blog. In 2009, the job market resulted in a ton of layoffs for journalists and print newspapers and magazines went out of business. These writers will take their skills to the Internet. Read more...(479 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)
The new year is upon us and let me take this opportunity to wish you
a very happy and prosperous year for 2010.
Achieve Your goals/resolutions/plans/ambitions:
As we say goodbye to 2009 and welcome in the new year, lets take a moment to reflect on the past year and plan for the new year. Lets reflect on what went well and how we can improve on it to make 2010 an even better year. Lets also reflect on what didn’t work or go well so that we can rectify the situations and not repeat the same mistakes again. Read more...(250 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)
Most of you will already be aware of the latest announcement on the release of Wordpress 2.9 – as always a major release comes with a bunch of cool new features. Here’s a short video showcasing just a few of the coolest features that come fully loaded with this latest major release.
The coolest new stuff from a user point of view are: Read more...(339 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)
Google Caffeine is the name given to Google’s “Next Generation” search engine, which it will use to rank and index all the pages on the wonderful world wide web. According to all indications, this is not just another one of Google’s infamous Updates, but a major “Overhaul” of its index and algorithm, the complex formula and calculations Google uses to rank all web pages, including yours.
If that doesn’t sound ominous enough, according to Matt Cutts (Google Spokesperson) one database is already showing Google Caffeine, and the full blown version will be released after the holidays. The reasoning behind this, Google doesn’t want to upset webmasters and site owners during the lucrative holiday buying season. In the past, other major Google Updates have come around this time of the year, most notably the “Florida Update” which severely affected many web sites and webmasters. Read more...(1732 words, estimated 6:56 mins reading time)
Response codes (also called status codes) are the coded results of a server’s attempt to understand and satisfy a request. Web server responses indicate whether a Web object (Web page, graphics file, CGI script, etc.) was successfully retrieved or executed and, if not, the reason for the unsuccessful result. Unsuccessful results are also referred to as server error codes.
Log files record these codes, and the Visitor Statistics tool includes a report on them.
The following codes are some of the most common responses:
* Code 200 – OK: The request was fulfilled. The Web page was successfully downloaded without error. Read more...(555 words, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)
With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having people click onto more pages helps your revenue immensely, but how do you get them to read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are a few tips.
1. Create pages within the blog that contain reference material you refer to often in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your topics you can refer people to these static pages as references to what you are posting about. Read more...(795 words, estimated 3:11 mins reading time)
The vulnerability is far serious than first mentioned from the extract from Wordpress.org bellow and an immediate upgrade is now advised. The security breach hole can allow for a script to add files to the site’s root directory which can lead to major disruption of your blog. Files such as index.html can be added to your site root via this security hole, this can include warez, viruses and porn type files. Thanks to the prompt action of those who spotted the breach and to wordpress for prompt release of the latest secure version we can now eliminate the problem by upgrading immediately. Read more...(595 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)
This is the second part of a 3 part posts – if you have not read the first part please do so in order to understand and follow the flow of the topic. Click here to read “Understanding Web Statistics” part I – opens in a new window!
Visitor Statistics tools tracks the following information about visitor activity (usage) on your site: files, hits, kbytes, pages, referrers, response codes, unique search strings, sites, unique URLs, unique user agents, usernames and visits. Read more...(951 words, estimated 3:48 mins reading time)
Been a while coming but better late than never. I needed to bring you quality themes and I hope whats to follow will make the wait well worth while.
Am presenting to you 3 new themes right here for you to download plus 20 more themes have been uploaded over at BlogThem.es – grab your 3 themes and if you like what you see am sure you will love what I have over at my new site http://BlogThem.es.
First up is a clean 3 column theme for the luxury oriented niche blog.
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