9 Techniques for Using Polls Effectively on a Blog
Posted on June 1st, 2006 | Category: Blogging | 2 Comments »Darren has a good post on how to use Polls effectively on a blog. He explains by giving nine tips on how he uses polls on his blog, namely
- Keep Polls Relevant
- Don’t use Polls just for the sake of it
- Position them Prominently
- Think ahead about options you give
- Beware of inactive polls
- Announce new polls
- Provide a medium for Discussing the Poll
- Write a ‘results’ post
- Don’t let the poll go on too long
Wordpress 2.0.3 Released
Posted on June 1st, 2006 | Category: WordPress | 4 Comments »Wordpress has released the latest stable version of 2.0 Series, 2.0.3, and is ready for download. This version is a bug fix and provides security and other small performance enhancements.
Michael Heilemann recently posted on these screenshots of the future navigation system of K2.
Yaro has a good post on how to announce a blog for brand new bloggers. His advices are solid and I recommend you to read it if you are new to blogging.
Spamming to increase your RSS Subscribers
Posted on May 27th, 2006 | Category: General | 8 Comments »Recently I have been getting spam comments on my blog linking to their blog feed. Looks like spammers are becoming more clever everyday.
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Switching to Partial Feeds
Posted on May 27th, 2006 | Category: General | 9 Comments »I decided to switch to partial feeds for some time as I have been experiencing Content Theft. Some bloggers have been Reblogging my blogs content completely on their blogs. And I believe they are doing it from my blogs feed.
Though switching to partial feeds will not stop them completely, it will…partially. Please do not post my articles completely on your blog. Just post an excerpt and link to the article.
Read my Creative Commons License. It does not allow derivative works.
Akismet WordPress Plugin version 1.15
Posted on May 26th, 2006 | Category: WordPress Plugins | 3 Comments »Akismet is an anti spam plugin for WordPress that checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service.
A new version of Akismet Anti Spam plugin, version 1.15, is now available for download.
On my previous posts I had mentioned the various ways on how to increase blog traffic and readers. But have you thought about how long your readers stay on your blog?
Posted on May 24th, 2006 | Category: Internet |
Feedburner has announced a couple of updates to what they are offering in their free stats package including ‘Live Hits’, the ability to see the last 25 hits via your feed and how long the 25 hits were over and what agent they used to read your feed and ‘Yesterdays News’ ,the ability to track your subscribers on different platforms historically.
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