Archive for August, 2008

Using your feed as a signature

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Just found a neat site that I am testing out - Feedsr.us. See the sample below.

feedsr.us - RSS-Feeds als Signatur
This links directly to my marketing blog. It changes the titles as I post new items to my blog.
It took me less than 5 minutes to create it and gives you the code in regular html [...]

Bringing readers back - The key to increasing blog traffic

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

The noise online makes it very easy for your message to get lost easily. Someone visits your blog, likes your content and bookmarks your site. They really do intent to come back but do they?
The answer is a great big maybe. If they grabbed your feed and added it to a reader like Google Reader [...]

Twitter and Impact Boot Camp

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Ken McArthur is holding his Impact Boot Camp this weekend in Philadelphia had Twitter has been a buzz. I am actually sad that I can’t go but went to DC last week and two weeks in a row would cost me my happy home.
Now one of the things that Ken McArthur is good at doing [...]

Google Insight For Search versus Google Trends

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

After the discussion about generating ideas for your blog the following question came up.

How is Google insights different from Google trends?

To show some of the differences I went through and did a search for turtles just for a sample and the fact that I have some. Trends gives you some data but no where near [...]

WordPress 2.6.1 released

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

WordPress just released the latest version.
Unlike some previous releases this one is not security related. To quote from the WordPress blog on the 2.6.1 release

August 15, 2008
WordPress 2.6.1
By Ryan. Filed under Releases.
With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a maintenance release shortly after a major release in order to get fixes for the inevitable [...]

Generate ideas for your blog posts easily (and it may help your traffic too)

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Here are a few tools to help you come up with topics for your blogging efforts. From input I get from conference rooms, surveys and comments this can often be a big problem for new and even established bloggers.
First following blogs in your niche and commenting regularly not only helps you get traffic from your [...]

Host Your Blog - The advantages and disadvantages

Friday, August 8th, 2008

There are three main advantages to hosting your own blog.

You own it

Can be optimized better

Can add other items to improve your process

There are also a couple disadvantages.

It does have a monetary cost

Need a bit of technical ability

Now lets get into the details.
You own it
This is probably the biggest advantage. As long as you pay for [...]

Automatic upgrade error

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Today’s question:

Hey, ever since I upgraded to the latest WordPress version, I get this message every time I try to up grade one of my plug-ins or to download an article…”Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class snoopy in /home/wowolf/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 47? What would be your recommendations.

There have been some problems with the automatic upgrade plugin. [...]

RSS Feeds - What they are and how you can use them

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

RSS is probably one of the most confused areas for people starting to blog. Everyone has heard the term either RSS, feed or the two combined RSS feed. Quite a few though don’t understand them or the power that having a feed gives you when using a blog.
Lets start with a definition from Wikipedia of [...]