Archive for March, 2007

Blogging on Empty

Monday, March 5th, 2007

You have been sitting at your PC for an hour and your screen shows nothing but a blank editing page. Sound familiar? Pro-blogger.com has archived a series of posts designed to beat back “Blogger Apathy”. One practical suggestion that is especially effective in dispelling blog boredom is just to simply ask questions.
Invite questions from your [...]

Simple Optimization Tips

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Neil Patel has outlined some simple steps for optimizing your site/blog for searche engines. His advice includes:

URL structure (blogname.com/post_title)
Page titles (Post Title)
Meta descriptions
Headings
Alt tags on images and links
Sitemap
301 Redirect for http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com
Link out
Ping

Good steps to start you off on the right foot for SEO.

Slashdot Firehose

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Slashdot.org (part of OSTG, Inc) has announced the release of a content aggregation system called Slashdot Firehose.

The Slashdot Firehose is a collaborative system designed to allow users to assist our editors in the story selection process. Try tagging and voting on the entries below, and by using the ‘feedback’ menu by each entry. The hose [...]