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Common blog elements

Farida — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:15:17 +0000

Most blogs use the following standard features:

Author byline

You will notice on some blogs they include the name of the person who wrote the post. This is a default setting know as the author byline. You can choose to remove the author byline by deleting the code from the template file.

Permalink

Short term for “permanent link,” this is the link you see in your browsers address bar. To read more about permalinks and how to create SEO titles using permalinks click here

Comments

You can allow comments to appear under published posts and set a rule where by only the administrator is allowed to approve the comment before it appears on the site. Comments are a great way to build content on a site and to connect with your readers.

Trackbacks

I published an article about trackbacks called “Increase your Blog Traffic using TRACKBACKS“ and is well worth a read especially if you have never heard of trackbacks before.
What usually happens is you the blogger will read a post on another blog site and if you have something to say about that post then you leave a comment right? Well with a trackback, instead of leaving a comment on THEIR site you leave a comment on YOUR site. To find out how to send a trackback and how to use them effectively, read “Increase your Blog Traffic using TRACKBACKS”
Something else you should know is that comments or trackbacks will not give you better search engine ranking – why? Because external links in the comments column including Trackbacks do not contribute to your Google Pagerank or any other search engine page rank. Although you might think this is not fair the one good thing to come out of it is the incoming links from other blogs that increases your blog traffic which is what you want.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

A final element common to most blogs is the Really Simple Syndication link (RSS). It’s a really clever technique used for notifying new content at a website. An example of a RSS feed is http://bloggerholic.com/feed. This feed contains frequently updated content which you can subscribe to if you want to, it is added to the Common Feed List. Updated information from the feed is automatically downloaded to your computer and can be viewed in Internet Explorer and other programs. The format of the information that appears is up to you as you can customise it to show full text or a summary. You can also choose how many posts you want the RSS to show. In my example it shows the 10 most recent posts. It displays the title, link and the full body of the content.

Facebook profiles to be made public

Farida — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 22:49:29 +0000

SOCIAL networking website Facebook is to make the personal profiles of its 39million members available to online search engines next month. The site will let those using Google, Ask or Yahoo! see if someone has a Facebook profile and see their photograph. Until now, only members or invited friends could see the information. The only way to prevent details being revealed is to adjust security settings. Facebook said it hoped the move would attract more people to its site. The announcement is the latest security concern to dog the site. Specialists have questioned whether people should include their date of birth on a profile because it is a common question used by banks to establish identity.

Forum vs. blogging

Farida — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:12:26 +0000

I’ve had a few people ask me the question “what is better, making a blog or a forum? It’s a good question if you are looking at it from an SEO point of view. My advice to those people is to start out with a blog because they are easy to set up and free. Once set up all you need to do is advertise and manage the content. The hard part is to be consistent with the blog and keep on top of the content so you rank in the search engines. People tend to get bored on one topic and move onto something different but if you can stay focused then you will be surprised by the amount of visitors coming to your site. A forum on the other hand is also easy to set up especially if you are using a forum software like SMF, Bulletin and Phpbb however getting traffic to a forum can be harder too.
In my experience Blogs tend to get more of an audience which can also have them participating in your blog by allowing them to submit comments which can make the blog into an established information source on any subject you want.

What is a Blog?

Farida — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:36:17 +0000

A blog is basically an online diary where you write stuff on an ongoing basis that is available on the web. It’s Free and anyone can create one. There are many places you can go to create a blog such as bloggers.com and Wordpress. Wordpress is my favorite and nearly all my sites are created using Wordpress.

You can use the money making ideas mentioned within a blog too. A good one is Google Adsense as Google loves to give out Adsense accounts to bloggers owners.

Before you create your account determine your blog topic first. Write about something you will enjoy, something you are passionate about, it can even be a simple diary of your day to day thoughts. I will say this though, if you have knowledge on any commercial or industrial topic, this will usually get you higher paying Adsense Ads.

Once you have a topic chosen, it only takes about 10 minutes to setup a blog.

How to make a Blog

Farida — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:39:29 +0000

Whether you are a beginner, novice or experienced designer, we explain all the essentials of blog creation and building a successful blog for your personal or commercial website and we guide you in the right direction. This tutorial gives you a complete and thorough understanding of the web and how it works and will walk you through all the steps to create your own blog website explaining exactly what to do from registering a domain name to marketing your website.

Domain Name Registration