Andrew Ferguson has posted up a great post on where to find Great Free Photos for Your Blog Knowing where to look is just as important as what you find. I know most people's first instinct is "Google Images!" Ignore that instinct. Google Images is useful for some things, but not really for this. ...
Category Archives: Blogging
Putting a Value on NoFollow Links
This week I was pulled up on my comment links having the default "no-follow" attribute. This led to me installing the Wordpress "do-follow" plugin and also to questions about if no-followed links have any value.First of all let me explain what "no-follow" means. The idea was hatched to prevent spammers profiting from ...
ScribeFire Released
I hear from Raj at Performancing there is a New Scribefire for Firefox (previously called Performancing for Firefox). Jed has been replaced by Chris Fincke who comments in the thread that he is a current Netscape developer, which is cool. I'm glad the tool is still going, not out of any sense ...
Should You Post or Should You Comment?
Since my post on the benefits of commenting I have been asked this question a few times so I thought it must be something bloggers puzzle over. Here is the question as asked by "Haacked" in the original thread:Sometimes I find I am writing a loooong comment in response. So I abandon the ...
My Answers to the Feed Count Meme
Maki at DoshDosh is running a survey about displaying your Feed Count and has tagged me with his meme: I would really love to know the purpose (if any) behind putting up a feed count chicklet. Other secondary issues I want to examine include the following: How long did it take you ...
Cool SEO Metrics Firefox Plugin
This one goes in the "possibly useful but definitely cool in a geeky way" category. Yeah, a lot of what I like goes in that category, heh. In this case I am talking about a plugin called Search Status which I was just reading about over at dailyblogtipsSearch status is a very useful ...
10 Reasons Commenting is Good For Bloggers
Remember last week I asked you to try commenting more? Please try this. For the next week make an effort to comment on more blogs. Each day post more comments than the last, on more blogs. Comment well, not just "ditto". Add something of value, your own thoughts. So what was all that about? I don't think ...
Adsense Profits Are Fragile
A reader asked me about my monetization plan for chrisg.com and was surprised that I didn't feature Adsense. My answer? Adsense is too fragile for me. Then I read Darrens Speedlinking postShoemoney posts an email from someone trying to extort money from him as an AdSense publisher by threatening to close down ...
Blog Readers Show Loyalty in Ad Age Study
Threadwatch.org reports on a Ad Age study researching blog reader habits. It showed they are loyal, reading the same blogs regularly, and judge them based on quality of writing. A specific topic focus is also valued highly.Most interesting to me was the confirmation of how people find new blogs67.3% of the ...
GeekyTraveller.com For Sale
Darren Barefoot is thinking of selling GeekyTraveller.com according to his post it has the following statsGoogle PageRank: 6 Incoming Links (according to Google): 1410 Technorati Rank: 98, 860 Visitors in 2006: 16, 314 Current average daily visitors: 65I did comment over on his blog but my comments ...
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