Wordpress, the blog hosting serevice is not doing bad at all, announced Matt Mullenweg from the company last week. Not less than 2 million blogs have been created during the last year, good for some 35 million new blog posts. Behind Wordpress follows Typepad as the second most popular blogging platform, but the gap between […]

It’s true, running a good blog can be very beneficial for your business and your rankings in the SERP’s. Sometimes it seems hard to draw the line between offering good content and just launching a blog for monetary purposes or rankings. At the end only a few top blogs can make it to the top, […]

Unfortunately no good news today as some new security issues about the Wordpress blogging software came out on the Techcrunch blog. Apparantly the Wordpress popularity has motivated hackers to focus on the million of blogs supported by Wordpress to insert spam and post unwanted entries.
It is not the first time such attacks have taken place, […]

Did that title sum you up in a sentence?  Do you write like a shotgun, do you sit down and give it all you have got without any regard for the outcome?  When you pull the trigger on a shotgun, it goes off, it doesn’t think about whats in front of it or the damage it may cause, it is simply an instant reaction.  Many bloggers perform the same way, they sit down and right without any thought of what they are writing about or where they want to go with the article or the possible repercussion of their words as they spill onto the screen.
Thoughts and ideas need to be developed and built upon to form an article.  Simply slapping text on the screen is not enough.  Readers are often aware when you have given little thought to an article because it reflects in your work.  It often results […]

These days there are a wealth of tools at our disposal for making money online through your blog. Yet with all of these options many bloggers tend to place their focus on Google’s Adsense program alone. Although this program is profitable for many people, diversity is the key factor to experiencing increased financial gain from your marketing efforts.
The old saying “Don’t place all of your eggs in one basket” reins true with this topic. Spreading your advertising across multiple channels allows your ads to appeal to a larger audience, therefor increasing your chances for that golden click or affiliate sale.
Just because your blog doesn’t receive several thousand visitors a day or have a high page rank, does not mean that you are locked into some third dimension filled with Adsense. There are other options out there that can and will work better for you. When […]

What is Technorati?
Technorati is a search engine that functions in real-time. This means that when bloggers update their blogs Technorati automatically updates. Technorati currently tracks over 104 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media, such as video, news, movies, music and games.
How to Join Technorati
You can join Technorati and bookmark your favorite blogs and various social media items. Most members join because they are blog owners and they want to claim, or submit, their blog to Technorati. Wordpress users can choose to have Technorati pinged when they add a new entry, but some blogging platforms do not offer this feature. Members can go to Technorati and ping their own blogs, to update the search engine.
Technorati
Technorati monitors the links between blogs to determine the importance of a particular blog, photos, videos etc. Essentially, they are monitoring the entire blogging community and the discussions that result.
You can use […]

Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress v2 Final
This plugin will make an XML-sitemap for your WordPress Blog. Many describe an XML-sitemap as “a Google sitemap”, but Yahoo and MSN also want XML sitemaps. Once your sitemap is created you want to make sure to submit it to Google.
Features:

This plugin is WordPress 2 compatible
Has a user interface that allows you to customize all parameters like change frequencies, exclusions, priorities etc.
Available in fourteen languages
Generates a static XML file in your Blog directory (Filename is customizable)
Can generate a gzipped version of the sitemap
Generates a sitemap for homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages
Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments, but this can be turned off
The XML file is automatically rebuilt when you change, edit, create or publish a post
The sitemap lets Google know about changes automatically via Google-Ping
You can include external pages which aren’t generated by WordPress or […]