Jumat, 27 Juni 2008

Getting Your Blog On? Comparing Two Blog Tool Giants

Wed, 05/21/2008 - 4:08pm ��� Becky Wiegand





If your organization is looking to join the blogosphere, there are a lot of things to consider ��� staff investment, leadership buy-in, one blog or multiple, return on investment, and a host of other issues. Once the decision has been made to get your organizational blog rolling (pun intended) the task falls to someone (probably you!) to choose the right tool. With that in mind, today we will compare two giants of the blogosphere: Movable Type and WordPress.

Movable Type and WordPress are two popular blog tools ��� really content management systems ��� used by bloggers the world over. For the past few years there has been much heated debate about which is best. For your benefit ��� and through much research ��� I have the answer nailed down: it depends.

Both tools can clearly publish blogs so the differences are in the details and depend a lot on your needs. Here are some questions to ask before settling on one tool:

1. How many blogs will be published by this tool?
If you plan to have a solitary blog, then either tool would do a fine job though WordPress has the upper-hand for users when it comes to ease of use, a host of useful plugins, free or inexpensive setup and maintenance, and easy-to-access support from its open source community worldwide.
If multiple blogs are in the forecast, then Movable Type has some significant usability and installation advantages. Keep in mind though, that if you need the Enterprise Solution for hosting multiple blogs through MT, there is a much higher financial cost than either WordPress��� freebie or premium options.

2. How tech-savvy are the blog administrators at your organization?
In user reviews and tech comparisons around the web, WordPress repeatedly beat out the competition with its ���famous 5 minute installation��� process. Once installed, the standard tools of both are fairly intuitive to use with similar dashboard features.

3. Do you expect high traffic or plan to host a lot of large files on your blog?
If you���ve got a huge site, or network of sites, with your current organization and high traffic already (you lucky dog), Movable Type may have the advantage ���out of the box.��� Larger sites with higher traffic will typically find their blog to be more stable and scalable without toppling their database. WordPress can certainly accommodate a heavy load, but the standard installation requires uploading a plugin to handle large files or high traffic.

4. How customizable do you need your blog to be and do you have on-site staff to customize it for you?
If you���re looking for a lot of customizability but don���t have on-site tech staff or a hired gun to do it for you, WordPress is the clear standout. With a staggering number of plugins and themes to customize it, and a huge community of open source developers worldwide who offer support through forums and knowledge base sites, you can really make WordPress��� standard tool a powerful and customized blog ��� or a full fledged website for your organization ��� with minimal financial investment or tech-savvy required. The community embodies the motto ���why reinvent the wheel?��� The open source code allows everyone to use innovations to customize their blog as desired, and invites you to contribute your great ideas as well.

In the end, the decision to choose a blog tool can be a difficult one. With both Movable Type and WordPress offering free or demo versions, the best way to see what may work well for your organization is to consider the factors above and then give them both a test drive. Happy blogging!

Kamis, 19 Juni 2008

WordPress Plugin and FeedBurner Solution Launched

Following the successful launch of BidVertiser Ads for Feeds, we have now added 3 unique solutions that allow you to keep your current feed address (including FeedBurner!) when running BidVertiser ads for Feeds:
  • 1. WordPress Plugin to allow you to seamlessly embed the BidVertiser Ads in your feeds.
  • 2. Solution for FeedBurner that allows you to embed the BidVertiser Ads in your current FeedBurner address (and keep your Subscribers Count!).
  • 3. Solution for Blogger that allows you to embed the BidVertiser Ads in the footer of each of your post feeds.All of those great features are now available for you in your publisher control panel under the Get Feed Widget button (after registering a feed).More info can also be found at http://blog.bidvertiser.com

Rabu, 18 Juni 2008

80 ping service for blog promotions

One way to promote your blog is using ping service. this is an effective way to be known by other/visitor. Blogger actually have this service in setting page->Publicate->ping.

Ping Tips:Ping your blog unfrequenly, because your blog can be as spam. do ping if you post your new article. This is an my favorite ping service
http://mypagerank.net/service_pingservice_index http://www.pingoat.com/ http://pingomatic.com/
the others ping serice that you can use them to promoto your blog.
�� 1470.net
�� a2b.cc
�� amagle.com
�� apple.com
�� bakeinu.jp
�� bblog.com
�� bitacoles.net
�� bitacoras.com
�� bitacoras.net
�� blo.gs
�� blog.goo.ne.jp
�� blogbuzzmachine.com
�� blogdb.jp
�� blogdigger.com
�� blogflux.com
�� blogg.de
�� blogg.de
�� bloggers.jp
�� blogmatcher.com
�� blogmura.jp
�� blogoole.com
�� blogoon.net
�� blogpeople.net
�� blogrolling.com
�� blogroots.com
�� blogshares.com
�� blogstreet.com
�� britblog.com
�� bulkfeeds.net
�� cocolog-nifty.com
�� coreblog.org
�� datashed.net
�� effbot.org
�� exblog.jp
�� fakapster.com
�� feedburner.com
�� feedster.com
�� focuslook.com
�� google.com
�� holycowdude.com
�� icerocket.com
�� imblogs.net
�� lasermemory.com
�� mod-pubsub.org
�� mod-pubsub.org
�� moreover.com
�� moreover.com
�� msn.com
�� myblog.jp
�� newsgator.com
�� newsgator.com
�� newsisfree.com
�� newsisfree.com
�� pingates.com
�� pingoat.com
�� pingomatic.com
�� pingqueue.com
�� popdex.com
�� pubsub.com
�� rootblog.com
�� snipsnap.org
�� syndic8.com
�� tailrank.com
�� technorati.com
�� topicala.com
�� topicexchange.com
�� wasalive.com
�� weblogalot.com
�� weblogs.com
�� weblogs.se
�� weblogues.com
�� wpkeys.com
�� yahoo.com
�� yahoo.com

Senin, 16 Juni 2008

Show off your favorite blogs with a Blog List

Today we���re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs: Blog List. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs��� RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.

Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or make a few to categorize the blogs you read. The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so you can get creative: link to news sites, podcasts, Twitter streams, search results, or anything else with a feed.

Here���s a quick summary of the features that a Blog List gives you:

Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog���s sidebar, with an optional favicon

For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post

Sort links alphabetically or by last update time
Show all links, or hide some behind a ���show all��� link

Import subscriptions from Google Reader

Blog List links are visible to search engine crawlers, so your blog���s PageRank and reputation flow to those you link to

Essential Tools for Blog

So you have decide to create your first blog on Blogger. It has a simple and fine interface that takes care of many things for you. This is my suggestion to you for your first free essential must haves for your blog.

1. Feedburner - It generates an smart feed compatible with all feed readers for free like my feed. It allows you to put easy subscribe buttons for XML, Add to yahoo, Add to Newsgator, Add to MSN etc. Read about how their single feed policy can benefit you..see me at http://www.feedburner.com

It can give you a cool feed count chicklet button to show how many readers are using your feed to read your blog. It also gives you a headline animator which you can attach to your blog to display the recent 5 posts in a nice animated fashion. You can get an authentic Creative Common license, get a browser friendly RSS feed, Splice photos and links and more…

2. Haloscan - Trackback is an essential component of blogging these days. Unfortunately Blogger does not have trackback. Haloscan provides you with a seamless way to integrate free trackback in your blog by adding a small code. You can also integrate their comments component if you like to replace the Blogger comments. Read about Haloscan or Blogger comments..see me at http://haloscan.com

The benefits are that you can edit Haloscan comments, and open them in a pop up and keep them separate from your post (Blogger allows you to only delete comments and not edit them, also on the post page all comments will show whether you like it or not).

The main disadvantage is it will not email you these comments (like Blogger) for free and it is difficult to track where these comments were made. Another major benefit is that it allows you to send pings and trackback to other sites when you mention about them in your posts.

3. Imageshack - Dont you want to fill your blog with images without hassles of registration. Imageshack provides an excellent interface to take care of your free image hosting needs. Maybe it is this the fastest way to host an image on the web. Allows lots of image format, hotlinking, transloading from other sites. Its a good idea to register to keep track of all your images in one place. It is much convenient than the proposed Hello and Picassa options. See me at http://imageshack.us

Update: Blogger enabled hosting of images on its own webspace making it easier to host images in your posts. But you cannot manage or edit / delete your blogger images in any way

4. Technorati - Create and add a technorati profile. It allows you to claim your blog in this huge blogosphere. It allows you to put an excellent technorati search on your blog. The best part is that whenever someone mentions or links to any page of your blog, technorati knows and a search for your blog on technorati shows exactly how many sites link to which pages of your blog and when they were added with a small description. See why you need a technorati account..see me at http://www.technorati.com

5 - Sitemeter - Just takes 5 minutes to get a free tracker which gives you realtime site traffic statistics to check the quantity and quality of your site traffic with detailed referrer and geographic data. I have checked out several other tracking sites, but this one seems the best. Although you need to keep a counter visible (as a logo, visitor counter) and the statistics can be made private too..see me at http://www.sitemeter.com

StatCounter gives much more detailed statistics and the counter is totally invisible and free totally till you start getting large traffic, when you need to pay. But the disadvantage is that both of these track the last 100 visitors only, while another free service Extreme Tracking tracks them all… but you statistics cannot be made private. More options I like are Google Analytics for deep traffic statistical analysis and it is hidden too.

6. Feedblitz - It quickly allows your blog visitors to subscribe by email to your new posts. They just have to enter their email. You decide which page opens after they press Subscribe. A quick confirmatory email to them and they get 1 email daily with all your new posts. You can decide if you want to send the full post or short posts with defined number of characters. Very good to keep your subscribers informed of new posts. It allows them to unsubscribe easily also. Example for our blog..see me athttp://www.feedblitz.com

7. My Blog Log - Tracks outgoing links to let you know where your traffic is going. The free limited version data is not in much detail, yet provides a good idea. You can also add a Top 5 Our Links module to your web site. Now they have a MyBlogLog community to get some extra site traffic too..see me at http://www.mybloglog.com

8 AudioBlogger- Audioblogger allows free unlimited audio posts from any phone to your Blogger blog. You call the number (Currently a US phone number), record a post, then your blog is updated with an audioblogger icon and a link to your recorded audio..see me at http://www.audioblogger.com

9. w.bloggar - It is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer. It enables users to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems. Helps to manage multiple blogs on Blogger very effectively..see me at http://www.wbloggar.com

10 Blogger Mobile - opens a new concept of Moblogging i.e. blogging by your mobile phone. When you send text or photos from your mobile device to go@blogger.com they’re automatically posted to your new blog page..see me at http://www.blogger.com/mobile-start.g

11. Blogexplosion - helps you get confirmed traffic to your blog. The principle is simple, you visit other peoples blogs and they visit yours. For every 2 blogs you visit, one visitor comes to you. This is very good if you are new blogger and have hardly any traffic. Definitely try the Rent a Blog advertising swap service..see me at http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/06/blogexplosion-unlimited-confirmed-traffic-for-blogs/

12. Pingoat - Pinging lets dozens of blogging services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. Just enter your blog name and blog home page, check the blogging services you want to ping, just click ‘Submit Pings’ and in one click it pings all of them. Pingoat offers a wide variety of such services and is fast too. See many more one click pinging services..see me at http://www.pingoat.com

13. Creative Commons - It offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. They have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright. They are nonprofit and all tools are free and useful to highlight the way in which you want others to use you content..see me at http://www.creativecommons.org

14. Google Adsense and Search - When you take all effort to write for a blog, why not optimize it to make some money. Let users search for good posts in your blog. And now it even helps to monetize you feeds.

Kamis, 12 Juni 2008

GooglePreview 3.10


Searching through websites across the Internet can be a relatively hit and miss affair. For instance, although Google does a fantastic job of collating various websites, how do you sort out the good from the bad? How do you know that by clicking on a link from a search engine, you won���t end up on a rogue site or similar?

GooglePreview is a tool that enables you to quickly see a visual representation of the search engine results within your browser window. By seeing a visual image of the search result, you can get a better idea of the destination of your web browser, when you click on the link.
Works effectively, but you need to wonder why Google don���t give you a visual preview of search engine results, rather than simply a text link. Perhaps this is due to the bandwidth requirements needed to show an image of hundreds of search results.

Searching with a visual image of each website can slow your browsing experience, so there���s also the option of switching off this feature when necessary.

Note that this is a Firefox extension. There is an Internet Explorer add-on available which we'll include on vnunet.com/downloads at a later date.

This latest version has support for Mozilla Firefox 3 beta 5. Download here

New and improved AdSense for search

AdSense for search on your site is nowpowered by Custom Search, meaning that you can take advantage ofadvanced customization options to refine your search results andads. In addition, you can manage all of the options below directlywithin your AdSense account.
Here are some of the new features you might be interested in:
  • Selecting ad location: Now, you can decide where to place yourads on search results pages -- whether it's at the top, bottom, orright side of each page. We recommend placing ads at the top andright side of the page, as we've found this monetizes the best forpublishers.
  • Refining searches with keywords: Search terms can have differentmeanings in different contexts, but now you can tune your searchresults and ads to what your users are interested in. You can seean example of this in our video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEwxC9hrxM4 . In our experiments,we've found that this tuning has lead to an increase in earningsfor publishers.
  • Improved indexing of your pages: We've recently improved ourindexing technology so that you can provide a more enhanced SiteSearch experience for your users. AdSense for search will nowindex even more pages of your site, as long as we’re able to crawlthem, so that your users will see more results from your site inyour AdSense for search results.
  • Site Search: If you're concerned about users leaving your sitethrough Websearch, you can now you can choose to provide just sitesearch so users can find all the information they're looking foron your site. We also recommend that you host the search resultson your own pages so your users won't leave your site when theyperform a search.
  • Vertical Search: You can also allow your users to search acrossmultiple sites - this could be a network of sites that you own orother related sites that you think your users might find useful.Examples of vertical searches include computer forums, travelblogs, or political sites you endorse.

You can get started with the features above by visiting yourAdSense Setup tab and selecting 'AdSense for search' as yourproduct. Just like with your ad and referral units, your adsettings will be saved within your account when you create a newsearch engine.

You can then go back at a later time and quicklymake any updates to your search settings. Once you've set up yoursearch box, you may wish to explore more advanced features such assite exclusion, labels, and collaboration.If you'd like to learn more about the new options available forAdSense for search, visit www.google.com/afs

Selasa, 10 Juni 2008

Blogs Trend Tool

Create your own Trend Graphs with the IceRocket Trend Tool. Enter keywords to see mentions trended over time.

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