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When we start off a blog, we long for comments. I still remember how I kept revisiting my first few posts several times a day, just to see if a comment arrived from some god’s soul!
But as your blog begins to get popular and the comments’ section becomes more of a discussion thread, it gets difficult at times to manage the flow of information, users who comment and other relevant stuff. What experts believe today is, that threaded, portable and social commenting is the future of online discussions.
But with the advent of
Disqus, such problems are a matter of past.
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Almost two years passed since I quit my job inside a multinational company to work from home on the Internet. For me it was pretty a straight forward move. One year inside a corporation was enough to clarify what I wanted to do professionally, and working for someone else was definitely not part of it.
Another aspect that facilitate the transition was the fact that I was 22 when I decided to quit; meaning no bills to pay or responsibilities that extended beyond “staying alive.”
Now I am sure that there are many people out there wondering if they would like to work from home. Others already know they would love to, but they are not sure about the downsides, or how to make the switch. For those, I think it would be interesting to share what I learned along these two years.
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Woopra is the king ping of website tracking by the looks of it and I suspect this platform will continue to make massive waves once they come out of Beta. Personally I have never seen such a comprehensive stats program before.
Not only can you see how many readers are online on your site at all times, but the program will also show you were they came from, your latest direct Google traffic hits and much more.
Woopra is even available in a handy offline application that will convert your desktop into a super spy machine.
If you always wanted to be a stats whore, now you can be as Woopra is all the stats programs you already know turned into one and then updated.
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This is a guest post by Hans.
Everyone loves music. Some of you are fans of Pink Floyd, David Bowie or U2 while others may be fans of Mozart or Brahms. Moreover, some may love Blues music while others prefer Punk music. In fact, there are several aspects that may influence your relation with music. You may adhere to a music style or be an unconditional fan of a particular singer. No matter what your music preferences are, the fact is that you based it on precise and personal criteria.
The same seems to be completely applicable to blogs. In this article, I suggest you to make an incursion into the music to find the criteria that would most influence your music preferences. These criteria will then be apply to blogs to better understand who your audience really is or what kind of audience you should target for your blog.
Let’s start the list.
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WidgetBox has been around for some time. I still remember playing around with their application last year at some stage but then forgot all about it. For some reason I was subscribed to their entries and after seeing their latest additions I thought it would be a good tool for a post here on
Easy WordPress.
WidgetBox is a smart online application that lets you share, connect, create and express using widgets on a wide range of platforms. Their easy to use tools allow you to create your own widgets or alternatively use somebody else to express your interests on your blog.
You can even turn your blog into a widget using WidgetBox. There are widgets for count down clocks, series announcements, music, news, pets, weather, games, movies, family and many more topics. It ads interactivity to your blog and makes people stay around longer.
You can even create a widget for your social media platforms that show your readers at any stage what you were up to. See the image to the left for more.
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I confess that I am a bit cranky when it comes to WordPress plugins. I use as few as possible (to not compromise my WP install), and I also tend to like some old school plugins that were released years ago. My plugin of choice for adding a link to my RSS feed, for instance, was the
sig2feed one. I started using it early in 2006!
Recently, however, more people started scraping Daily Blog Tips, so I felt that it was necessary to add not only a link back to the blog, but also a link back to the original post. This should help Google to identify my original articles more easily and quickly.
When I tried to use sig2feed for this purpose, however, I found that it was not capable of (not without a good deal of PHP tweaking at least), so I decided to find a new RSS feed footer.
RSS Footer is the name of the plugin created by Joost de Valk, and it gets the job done perfectly. Basically it allows you to insert any message or link on the footer of your feeds, and it also comes with a check box that you simply need to tick if you want a link back to the original article.
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Monday’s video post is live. On this one I explain why you should display only post title in category and archive pages (something that I started doing recently). The second part of it illustrates how WordPress users can do this change easily.
The plugin that I mention on the video is the
Custom Query String. If you can’t see the video player, here is a link to the YouTube page:
Display Only Post Titles on Category Pages.
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We bloggers love to add images to our posts as often as possible. The reason being is a common one -
a picture is worth a thousand words. I hope you remember
my last post, where I introduced to you some cool extensions including
Picnik, which happens to be a great extension to handle images on Firefox.
Talking about image hosting,
Flickr is one of the most widely used web-based imaging service. Now, you may upload a lot of images at your
Flickr account and get your blog posts to display them, wherever and whenever needed. I know this would have been been a dream, until this cool plugin was launched. Yes, I am talking about the
Flickr plugin for wordpress.
This Flickr plugin for WordPress allows you to display your
Flickr photosets as albums on your
WordPress blog. The template is pretty simple and intuitive and totally customizable to match the look and feel of your blog. If desired, you can also hook it up with Lightbox or similar display libraries like - Facebox, FancyZoom and Fancybox.
For the user interface, this plugin adds a new
Flickr icon to the WordPress editor allowing you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts with just a couple of clicks! You also have an option to either link inserted photos to your WordPress Flickr photo album or directly to your
Flickr.com photo page.
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Below you will find the most popular posts on this blog during the past month. Check them out if you missed any.
- Why You Must be the First, in Google’s Search Results at Least!: People always say that you need to be in the first page of results in Google if you want to receive clicks, right? Well, this will hurt, but the reality is that merely being in the first page is not enough.
- Are You Familiar with HTML and CSS? Six Reasons Why You Should Invest the Time to Learn: I had been involved with web design for a few years before I ever started blogging. In my opinion, being able to work with the code of a blog is a huge advantage that many bloggers choose not to pursue.
- Video Blog Review 1 - FavBrowser.com: On this first blog review I will cover the design and layout aspects of FavBrowser.com, a blog coming from one of our readers (I asked his permission to review it).
- Google Indexing Scrapers First?: This made me curious and went to check for myself. The first thing I wanted to know was if my post was indexed already by Google or not. I copied one sentence from the post and search it in Google, with quotation marks to find only exact matches.
- Poll: What is Your Favorite Browser?: Anyway all this browser thinking got me curious about what browser you guys use. I know that many of you will need to use more than for work purposes (cross browser testing, Internet Explorer applications, etc), but what is your favorite browser for surfing the web, blogging and similar?
- Website Traffic Series Part 6: Using Forum Signatures: Time to analyze another traffic generation strategy: using forum signatures. At the bottom of this post you will find links to all the previous parts on the series, and stay tuned for future ones, we are going to cover literally all of them!
- Star Trek Blogging: The Klingon Way: In the world of Star Trek, Klingons are known as a warrior people, formidable in battle, fierce in their passions, and concerned with honor above all. But the life of a Klingon has lessons for humans, even for that sedentary class known as bloggers. Here are three proverbs that can help you learn to blog the Klingon way.
- DarkZen WordPress Theme Released: Most of our previous WordPress themes used light or vivid colors, so I thought that a darker design was needed on the portfolio. DarkZen comes with a dark header and a gray background, packed on a clean and minimalist design.
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Not only can you see how many readers are online on your site at all times, but the program will also show you were they came from, your latest direct Google traffic hits and much more. Woopra is even available in a handy offline application that will convert your desktop into a super spy machine.
If you always wanted to be a stats whore, now you can be as Woopra is all the stats programs you already know turned into one and then updated.
Read more
You can even turn your blog into a widget using WidgetBox. There are widgets for count down clocks, series announcements, music, news, pets, weather, games, movies, family and many more topics. It ads interactivity to your blog and makes people stay around longer.
You can even create a widget for your social media platforms that show your readers at any stage what you were up to. See the image to the left for more.
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