Disaster Planning: Backups for Bloggers
The time to backup your posts is while you are writing them. The best method of doing so is to use an offline blog editor to compose your posts in and to publish the posts directly into your blog.
View ArticleWordPress.com forum tips
From the forum A wordpress.com blogger has an excellent post that I would like to recommend for reading and bookmarking WordPress Forums : some helpful things to know before posting Another...
View ArticleSiteMeter RSS Measurements Survey
At SiteMeter staff are working on a new feature; the ability to provide bloggers or sites with blog pages in particular, with data on RSS activity. One of the new RSS data points SiteMeter plans to...
View ArticleRSS Import Xanga and MovableType Blogs to WordPress
What is Xanga? Xanga is a community where you can start your own free weblog. From time to time bloggers who want to move their xanga blogs to wordpress.com appear on the support forum asking for...
View ArticleRSS Feed Icons and Buttons
Lately everyone seems to be looking for rss feed icons that complement their blog designs so I’ve been out locating free sources of rss feed icons and buttons. Please read the use policy on each site,...
View ArticleHow to remove the “view more photos” link from the Flickr feed
Jeremiah Hoyet has discovered a way to remove the “view more photos” link from the Flickr feed located in the sidebar on his blog. You will require the css editing upgrade if you want to do as he has...
View ArticleHow to use Stumbleupon effectively
If you have noticed the changes to my sidebar then you will have noticed that I have joined three social networks (Blog Catalog, StumbleUpon and Mybloglog). My aim in joining these social networks so...
View ArticleSplog Off! Dealing with content theft
Splogs, are artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites. The purpose of a splog can be to...
View ArticleSpotting a splog
Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs, are artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine rankings of...
View ArticleTechnorati Indexing: Two Steps
My blogs are registered with Technorati so when I noticed that my blogging tips site here at http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com had not been crawled by Technorati spiders for 15 days, and that some of my...
View ArticleSubscribers/Readers Notice
Please forgive me for being behind in publishing new posts, answering comments and leaving comments this week. I have spent most of my blogging time this week arguing with blog scraping content thieves...
View ArticleRSS in Plain English and Feedburner for Email Updates
Now that wordpress.com has an in house subscription service you can let people subscribe to your blog by adding the blog subscription widget, and the instructions for setting up email updates through...
View ArticleWordPress and BlogSpot: Subscribe to a RSS Category Feed
RSS is the acronym for Really Simple Syndication and it’s basically a computer-readable summary of the content of a web page/blog. From the blogger’s point of view RSS feeds make it possible to...
View ArticleScraping Off the Blog Scrapers
Money from advertising income motivates blog scrapers to steal content. It’s only a matter of time before you discover your copyright has been violated and your content is now duplicated on a site you...
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