Archive for May, 2007
Word Press 2.2 review
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Seems to be stable in the short time I have had it up. Does have a few nice features that I like.
If you use lots of plugins it won’t activate a plugin that will cause a problem. Nice little feature.
They have built widgets right into the script so you no longer need to get a [...]
Blog Traffic - Final (for now)
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007Almost switched topics today with the release of Word Press 2.2 but did not want to upset people. I have installed it here and will comment on it tomorrow.
Today we’ll talk about blog exchanges for generating traffic. Now let me preface this by saying I run and own a piece of a blog exchange. Despite [...]
Blog Traffic Answers - Part 3
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007This is the 3rd part of the series on traffic for your blog. We have covered submissions to the rss directories, using comments properly, blog communities and social bookmarking sites. Today we will discuss Technorati and Squidoo.
Technorati and creating proper tags and submitting each time to them is probably the best way to generate traffic. [...]
Blog Traffic Answers - Part 2
Monday, May 14th, 2007Last time we discussed the rss directories and commenting on other blogs in your niche. These are good ways. You can also get involved with blog communities.
Mybloglog is a good example. You can see the widget on the sidebar of this blog. Now the widget is a neat tool because you can see other member’s [...]
Blog traffic - part 1
Saturday, May 12th, 2007Traffic for your blog seems to be a common problem for most people who submit questions. Here is one I got recently.
I have submitted my blogs to lots of blog directories and a traffic exchange for blogs, but I’m not satisfied with the small amount of traffic I’m getting. How do I get more traffic [...]
Organizing multiple blogs
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007One of the big questions I get is about keeping track and dealing with multiple blogs. This has been one of the problems I have had too.
It usually becomes a real problem with keeping track of the various passwords although things like Roboform or a spreadsheet can help there, My big problem was remembering which [...]
How to FTP - Part 2
Monday, May 7th, 2007This is a delayed continuation on using FTP. Sometimes life gets in the way.
There are two basic types of transfer - binay and ASCII. Most servers transfer everything in binary. ASCII is only used for text and html documents. Most FTP clients will select the proper format but if you need to set it choose [...]
How do I use FTP?
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007One of the biggest questions that new people have trouble with is using FTP. Now FTP stands for file transfer protocol.
It is the one tool that is invaluable to me when working on Word Press blogs.
Basically, an FTP client allows you to copy files over the internet between your computer and the server where your [...]
Automating Smart RSS plugin
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Todays question is
I want to know how to make the “Automatic RSS” work properly. I got the program from WordPress, installed it on my blog, and tested the link to make sure it would pull in articles. It did when I ran it manually, but the cron job won’t work it automatically.
The fact that the [...]