Tag Archives: Blogs
Why Shutting Down Yahoo Site Explorer is a Loss to Bloggers
If you’re a blogger and you’ve been following the news you may have heard about Yahoo shutting down its Site Explorer service on the 21st of this month. As someone who depends a lot on the Yahoo Site Explorer, and who uses data from the tool to optimize my Yahoo small business and midphase coupon [...]
Full StoryWhat a Bash at the Chicago Mash!
Last night, a group of us attended the Mashable Summer Tour in downtown Chicago. It was a great time and as I would call it, a bash at the mash! If you missed this awesome event, please try to make it next year. There are a lot of people, like you, who love to network [...]
Full StoryBlogs Targeted By Cyber Crooks
If you’re one of the lucky blogs that have a good Pagerank and Alexa ranking, your blog could be in danger. In most cases, bloggers work hard to obtain good ranking scores and cyber crooks look for those same ingredients to target attacks. Cyber crooks are using Black Hat SEO to create backlinks to malicious [...]
Full StoryGoogle Pagerank Update Comes Early
The average update is usually around 90 days, but this one comes early. There is no rhyme or reason, and I am guessing it’s Google being Google. The update is underway and should continue through the next 12 hours. I noticed this at around 1:00 pm CDT with some of the tech blogs I usually [...]
Full StoryGoogle PageRank Underway!
Has it been 3 Months already? April 1st marks 90 days since the last Google PageRank update. The update began yesterday at around 3 PM CST and should continue through Friday morning April 3rd. How did your PageRank fair? We went up from a PR3 to a PR4 and it wasn’t easy. In the last [...]
Full StoryI Declare Today Comment Day
You have a blog and you are passionate about what you write, but your real motive is to gain popularity and fans. Are you really converting your traffic into loyal followers? In most cases many of us are not doing well with conversion. Social networks work well in getting traffic, but not always for converting [...]
Full StoryFind Trusted Backlinks when Commenting
I have read so much about the effectiveness of commenting on other blogs within your niche to establish a few things; Backlinks that are do-follow Building reputation Creating a fan following These are all good and there’s just that little extra that can build more trust with Google if you target blogs that are (.edu [...]
Full StoryHackers Attract Users to Fake Blogs
Cybercriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google’s Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct it to malware serving blogs primarily hosted at Windows Lives’ Spaces. According to a recent advisory issued by Webroot: “For the first time, [...]
Full StoryFlame Wars Hit The Blogosphere
I never thought that a flame war could actually happen in a blog, but it does. I remember running a very popular gaming fan site based on the game called Delta Force by Novalogic. Our web site was called DFWorld.com and we had thousands of active members and there were some huge flame wars in [...]
Full StoryA Must Have WordPress Plugin
WP-SpamFree is by far the best plugin I have installed. It virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam and uses very low bandwidth. I installed this plugin a week ago to give it a test drive and I am amazed that I have not had one spam comment in the last week. Our [...]
Full StoryWhat’s All The Buzz About?
Yahoo Buzz, like Digg is a rating service where you can submit stories and rate other stories. Buzz went live on Tuesday and many bloggers lined up to submit stories of their own. The goal is to get as much positive ratings so you can hit the sweet spot, the ‘front page’. Easier said than [...]
Full StoryGet Your Ducks in a Row
An expression meaning to have things organized or lined up. I am very passionate about helping people, but I find myself overwhelmed at times, but I still carry the torch each day. I write 2 to 3 blogs per day on average, and work in a start up company 9 to 10 hours per day. [...]
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