Tagged: blogging

Some Fun Facts About WordPress

Posted on August 27th, 2009 by Urbain

Most everyone uses WordPress these days.  It’s an excellent blogging platform that is continuously enhanced.  Did you know:

WordPress was released in 2003 (development started in 2001).
As of 2007, there were over 3.8 million downloads — more current statistics have not been published, but I’m willing to be that at least 7 million downloads took place [...]

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Reuters Chips in on the News Linking Debate

Posted on August 10th, 2009 by Urbain

With the Associated Press — and probably all of the Murdoch online news outlets — talking about going after people who use their content, Reuters has chipped in.
According to WebProNews, the issue goes beyond “copy and pasting” news content.  They write that AP is talking about pursuing people who link to their content.  That is [...]

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Yeah Buddy, Goal Accomplished!

Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Urbain

Back in June 2008, I gave myself a personal challenge:  Do I have the self-discipline to blog every single day for a full year?
Well, I did it.   The first post was made on June 26, 2008.  And I thank you folks for reading and commenting since that time.  This would have been very hard [...]

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A Quick and Easy Screen Capture Application

Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Urbain

Having a super easy screen capture program speeds up your blogging and web authoring process, particularly if you show screen shots  like I do.
Potato Screen Capture is a freeware application that will not only handle your screen capturing needs, but it will let you ftp your image directly from the program, email your captured image [...]

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A Smoking Hot Blog Hosting Deal

Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Urbain

If you’re ready to start blogging by using a WordPress platform, HostGator has some of the best hosting services around.
Some hosting services have blocks on important features which limit your blogging power.  For instance:

Many plugins are now using the IonCube Loader and there are some hosts that do not have this available for their customers.  [...]

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How to Find Targeted Do-Follow Blogs

Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Urbain

There is an easy way to uncover blogs that relate to your niche … and that are DO FOLLOW comment blogs.
Head on over to a free “do follow” search engine driver called InLinks SEO.  Type in your keywords and the engine will pull targeted blogs that will publish your do follow links.  In the example [...]

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Getting Traffic from CNN

Posted on April 6th, 2009 by Urbain

This is one of those “I discovered it by accident” things that might benefit you.
A few days ago, I noticed that a lot of traffic was coming in from CNN.  It was coming in quickly.  Here’s a look at what was going on, as reported by the Feedjit widget on April 2.
I had no idea [...]

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PR 5 In Six Weeks? I Am Blown Away.

Posted on April 4th, 2009 by Urbain

I honestly did not think anything like this could happen, and I am still not sure that it is real.
At the end of the 3rd week of February, I created a site so that people could post articles and get back links. The site reports on various religious issues, separation of church and state, [...]

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Custom Premium WordPress Themes – Free Download

Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Urbain

If you blog using WordPress, it’s nice to have a collection of themes.  For a limited time, you can access custom premium themes that you can download for free.
Your download includes 30 different themes,with 6 variations each.
These themes are available through the 100% Giveaway Event that lasts until April 20, 2009.  This giveway has dozens [...]

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A 52,587% Increase in Profit

Posted on March 29th, 2009 by Urbain

If you have paid text links in your blog, you’ve probably heard of the Kontera Content Link network.  One of the nice tools that Kontera has recently issued is an update to its Wordpress plugin.  With the update, you can specify whether or not the content links will show on each post.  Here’s a snapshot:

Once [...]

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