Entries from July 2006

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Top 9 Wordpress Plugins

My list of essential Wordpress plugins.

Akismet - absolutely essential to reduce or eliminate spam comments. Since I set up Akismet, I have had no spam comments get through. It’s that good.
Bunny’s Technorati Tags - Many use Ultimate Tag Warrior to tag their posts, but I find Bunny’s Technorati Tags gets the job done [...]

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Wordpress security update

Wordpress just released a security. update/ bug fix- version 2.0.4. There are ore 50 bug fixes in this release, so it’s a recommended update for all Wordpress users. You can checkout the details of the update here.

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

6 Ways to make money blogging

There are a few different ways you can make money blogging. That is why many of us are in the game, right? Here are just a few ways -

Through contextual advertising such as Google Adsense or Yahoo’s YPN
Donations through a PayPal tip jar
Ebook sales
Product sales - on a product based blog.
Affiliate programs
Job opportunities [...]

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Blog Republic interviews Aaron Brazell

If you aren’t familiar with Aaron’s website Technosailor, go check it out. It’s been one of my favorite reads ever since I first discovered it. Darren over at the Blog Republic recently interviewed Aaron, and you can read all about it here.

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Movable Type 3.3 is released

Six Apart recently released Movable Type 3.3 to the world.  This is more of a maintenance release, without much in the way of breakthrough features.  Here are a few of the highlights :

Tag support is now included
Widgets - Drag and drop to arrange items on your page
Unlimited authors on free version

Like I said, nothing revolutionary [...]

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

The importance of titles

The title is one of the most important, but also easily overlooked, part of a post.  If you don’t have a good title, the search engines will have trouble finding your posts, and that means they won’t get read.  One of the simple things you can do ( if you’re running Wordpress )  is install [...]

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Do we really need another blog about blogging?

A very good question.  There are already quite a few blogs about blogging, and helping bloggers improve.  Is another one needed?
Absolutely.  As more and more blogs are appearing all over the world, at an incredibly rate, I feel I’ll be able to add my input, and help a few people along their way.  I don’t [...]

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Which blogging platform is best?

There are quite a few blogging platforms to choose from today. How do you as a new blogger know which one is best? Here I’ll cover what I consider to be the “big three” - Blogger, Wordpress, and Movable Type. There are pros and cons to each one, and I’ll try to cover the important [...]

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

5 reasons to start a blog

1. You want to change the world
2. You want your opinion heard
3. You’re bored
4. You want to get rich
5. You think it sounds like a lot of fun.
Anyone want to guess which group of bloggers is the most successful?
If you guessed group 5, you’d be right! The most successful bloggers [...]

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

What is a blog?

What is a blog? Ask 10 different people this question, and you’re guaranteed to get 10 different answers. Everyone has a different opinion of what a blog is, and what a blog isn’t. That’s because there isn’t one set answer to the question - and that is part of the beauty of blogging.
Many people think [...]