Wow, Wordpress 2.6 is out with some really cool new features.
First of all, the new Wordpress 2.6 adds ability to edit multiple revisions, sorta like Wiki editing.
Second, the new Wordpress allows you to cut and paste text and images easily using a bookmarklet.
Check out the video for the features:
Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.
This is a guide to blogging your nuts out when you are traveling or
outdoors without an access to a computer. Of course, we will be using
a cellphone PDA to blog ourselves nuts.
First and foremost, you can simply use an email client to write your articles.
I highly recommend that you publish your cellphone blog post
afterwards when you have access to your computer.
In the meanwhile, your draft blog post lives in your e-mail box.
Mobile blogging is really good for those of you on the constant go.
If you find yourself stuck waiting for a flight or even if you are on
a long bus commute, you can easily turn that into a valuable blog
writing time and let your ideas fly on your PDA keyboard. Of course,
we do recommend you get a full qwerty keyboard equipped pda.
The reason I made this post was also because of the fact that I am
actually sitting at the park as I write this blog post.
With no access to my computer but good broadband access to my gmail, I
am simply writing this during an outdoor party actually.
You see, great ideas on blog posts can be very productive even outside
your home office.
Perhaps, I will take this idea even further and try to blog 24/7 on the go.
Of course, it’s a lot harder to do linking and uploading images so I
try to keep that for later when I get back to my home office.
Now, there are numerous ways to also publish live on your cellphone but I won’t get into that as I don’t recommend it.
It seems like some of the bloggers on blogger.com with anti-obama blogs have been blocked.
Personally, I don’t have a political opinion here but it looks like Google is marking those blogs as “spam”.
I am not sure what Google’s policies are on political blogs but just as an advice, I wouldn’t host my blog on blogger if I seriously wanted a “free voice” or freedom.
The bloggers in question, most of them supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and all of them opposed to Senator Obama, received a notice from Google last week saying that their sites had been identified as potential “spam” blogs. “You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog,” the Google e-mail read.
Heck, the funny thing is, supporters of Clinton should now be supporting Obama, what is happening???
Well, this one’s pretty simple but a lot of people forget to put nofollow on links that are going out.
I don’t mean you should put nofollow on blogroll links but links like feedburner, flickr, and other free services you link to.
Don’t simply copy and paste as you are giving away valuable Pagerank to those free sites.
Well, that’s if you want to keep your PageRank as high as possible. It’s pretty much pointless to put a nofollow on those links anyways.
I know, I know, you want to thank those sites that give you the free service but realize that every link is valuable and if you are serious about gaining traction in the internet world, you should really pay attention here. Besides, those free services probably already got millions of free links from other bloggers who don’t give a shi*. I am just telling you if you do give a shi*.
Why do people forget about this simple fact?
Well, because most of the time, you end up copying and pasting the code from those free service sites. Now remember they don’t have a ToS that says you need to put a do-follow link in order to use their services. It’s only fair for you as a blogger to protect your Pagerank from going out to links like that. It’s actually very important that you watch out where your outlinks are going to as it will determine the number of search engine traffic you receive over the long term.
Now, don’t tell me you are on the do-follow campaign, that’s just something I won’t get into but it’s only hurting your blog. I think it’s smarter to play the safe side and make sure your do-follow links are only to those sites that you want it to go out and keep everything else, as I said before, a no-follow folks.
I maybe right or wrong but you might as well be safe than sorry.
Well, today I will explain to you a little details on how search engines work and how knowing about this “secret” can help your blog grow 2-3 times.
When I first started blogging, my blog was on a shared server with about 10 other sites. After my blog got “digged” several times, I had more visitors than my server could handle. So I did upgrade it to a dedicated server.
Now, what’s so special about upgrading to a dedicated server?
Well, let me first tell you the “secret” behind search engines.
You see, search engines “crawl” your site and index your pages based on the different words, keywords, etc…etc…
Now if the search engine can “crawl” your site within 1-3 seconds, you are probably okay. But if you are on a shared server and it takes more than 3 seconds to “crawl” your site, the search engine will not come back to your site as often and your pages won’t get indexed as fast and some pages will come up missing.
What you need to do is make sure your site is always at 25% of full capacity on the server.
So if your daily traffic is like 500 uniques, it should be able to handle at least 2,000 uniques.
Search engines WILL crawl your site much more efficiently and send you more traffic only if your server can handle it.
If you are on a shared server and it take the search engines 10 seconds to “crawl” your site, they are not going to want to send you traffic because your site will be very very slow and cannot handle more traffic.
You see, Google’s branding is about bringing the “fastest” information to you. Now if someone searched for something and the site loads very very slow, that’s going to look bad on Google.
Of course, you need the content first and foremost, but after that, it’s all about SPEED.
That’s the worst kept secret that no book will teach you and you won’t understand unless you’ve experienced it.
It’s logical and common sense. Now, go apply it on your blog and start receiving 2-3 times more traffic simply because your server can handle more traffic.
What do you need to do?
You need to forsee how much traffic you will be getting over the next 1-3 months. If your server slows down a lot, it’s time for hardware upgrade. If you don’t upgrade, you will lose valuable visitors.
Google will be launching adsense ads for feeds next week. This will be great since I have been using Yahoo publisher as Google Adsense doesn’t currently support feedvertising.
If you have a lot of subscribers, you might be able to make some more money with the new feeds addition. But for most of you, it might not make a difference if you are not making money with Adsense anyways…
This is huge news for content publishers. As we know first-hand, monetization on RSS feeds to-date has been mediocre at best compared to Web-based advertising, and with an increasing amount of reading and conversation taking place off-site, that’s a brewing problem in the world of content publishing. It also means that the few remaining hold outs who only publish partial feeds (I’m looking at you CNET and The New York Times) may finally offer full feeds, since they can now be effectively monetized. On the other hand, for RSS consumers, it probably means the free ride is over.
AjaxDaddy give you some real good free code sniplets on various different Ajax implementations. Although I don’t have use for this as I prefer from-scratch Ajax coding, this can be very useful for anyone who’s not familiar with Ajax technology.
For Your Reference, what is AJAX?
AJAX is simply a combination of XMLHTTP, Javascript, and PHP to bring you “refreshing” of pages without reloading. You can read more about it here, here’s some books I also recommend you reading to get started:
JavaScript and Ajax for the Web - This is the best book to get you started with AJAX, I’ve read all the others ones but not as comprehensive and easy to read as this one.
Ajax Hacks - This book has lots of little tips and tricks for your Ajax code, definitely recommended if you are serious about Ajax development/learning.
AjaxBuddy, a free repository of Web 2.0-style site tools, is great for site owners who don’t have time to learn an entire programming language, or just need a starter block of code to get building. Grab free, easy-to-modify code for Flickr-like editing fields, quick-loading slideshows and tabbed galleries, instant graphs, date-choosing calendars, and dozens more examples.
Here’s a good podcasting tool for all you bloggers. You can use BlogAmp to share your podcasts via “embed”.
I think this is a great idea since a lot of bloggers don’t want to be podcasting all the time and BlogAmp brings you the “share” idea sorta like Youtube.
BlogAmp is an on demand audiocasting service. It comes with a complete content management and admin system, allowing users to customize their presentations and to broadcast them over the internet. Features include free embedding to any blog or website, built in podcast feeds, custom color generator, links to external mp3 files and audience tracking tools.
