July 27, 2005
MyBlogLog Update - Track your Outbound Links
In March this year I posted about a service called MyBlogLog (affiliate link) - an online service that tracks where people go when they leave your blog by looking at the outbound links that they click. I originally used...
Posted by Darren at 11:57 AM
January 18, 2005
Google to Kill Blog Comment Spam?
Steve Rubel points to a rumored announcement of a system of blocking Google's bots reading your comments - thereby taking the incentive for comment spammers to leave comments. 'But since then several bloggers have reported that Winer was testing...
Posted by Darren at 09:21 AM
January 16, 2005
Mapping the Readership of your Blog by Location
Where are visitors to this page? (Auto-update daily since 29-Dec-04) A few weeks ago I added a little feature to my side bar which produces a world map with little red dots all over it to represent where the...
Posted by Darren at 11:20 AM
January 12, 2005
Choosing Complimentary Colors for your Blog - ColorMatch Tool
Have you ever struggled to select a color scheme for a blog? It's pretty obviously looking at the disaster that I've designed here that I do! So this ColorMatch tool is going to be very handy! It is designed...
Posted by Darren at 09:45 PM
January 11, 2005
Bloglines Revenue Models - A fine line to walk
I missed this snippet of a post by Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher late last year where he talks about the business model (income stream) for Bloglines in the future: 'Eric was interested in the business model behind Bloglines. Not...
Posted by Darren at 11:15 PM
January 09, 2005
:: w.bloggar :: version 4.0 released
PC users might be interested in the latest release of :: w.bloggar :: which has just been released. :: w.bloggar :: acts as an interface between you and your blog, acting as a post and template editor. It allows...
Posted by Darren at 11:23 AM
Word Press - Web Application of the Year
ars tecnica has just announced its awards for 2004 and has named WordPress as Web application of the year. Let's face it. Blogs are in fashion, and why not? Vanity knows no bounds, and there are some people who...
Posted by Darren at 11:12 AM
January 08, 2005
Keyword Identification Tool - NicheBOT
Thinking of starting a new blog but you don't know what keywords to target? NicheBot might be a tool worth checking out. Its a very useful tool that helps you to identify keywords that: 1. are being searched for...
Posted by Darren at 08:52 AM
January 03, 2005
Find Your Future Google PageRank
So we know Google are doing a page rank update - on some data centers the results are not showing yet. Are you impatient and want to know what your blog's page rank will be? You might find this...
Posted by Darren at 11:30 PM
Translating Blogs
The Multi Lingual Blog (Blogos) has an interesting post examinging Translation in the Blogosphere. 'Now that millions of individuals around the world are being empowered, if that’s the right expression, by blog software to file reports from sites that...
Posted by Darren at 02:31 PM
December 31, 2004
Message Cast - Live Message Alerts
I'm testing Live Message Alerts on this blog at the moment which enables you the reader to receive an alert every time I post new content. You can choose to be alerted either on you msn messenger, via email and/or...
Posted by Darren at 10:32 AM
December 30, 2004
New Google Feature: Sponsored Links
I just stumbled across a new (?) feature on Google - Google Sponsored Links which allows you to enter a term and then see what ads Google has in their stock pile. The initial page that you go to...
Posted by Darren at 10:58 AM
December 19, 2004
ecto blog: Special christmas discount!
ecto is offering a spacial Christmas discount on its amazing blogging software. I use ecto for MacOS 10.3 (windows version is also available) and absolutely LOVE it - it totally revolutionized my blogging experience when I stumbled upon it....
Posted by Darren at 09:29 PM
December 13, 2004
PubSub LinkRanks
PubSub LinkRanks are a useful tool that help to keep track of how different domains are being linked to by the blogosphere. They define them as: 'LinkRanks are a measure of how many pages link to each particular site,...
Posted by Darren at 05:16 PM
November 27, 2004
ecto blog: Amazon
The wonderful people who developed ecto - a tool that has revolutionised the way I blog - has added a feature that I requested in forums a few weeks back to their MacOSX version - the ability to add...
Posted by Darren at 01:09 PM
November 24, 2004
Essential Pro Blogging Tools
Hypothetical question time - If you were stranded on a desert island (with dsl broadband and a laptop) and the had to make a living (to pay for your boat ride home) from blogging - what would be your top...
Posted by Darren at 11:32 AM
October 12, 2004
Blogging Resources - Inc.com
Inc.com has a good list of blogging links including blogging tools and 'how to' guides....
Posted by Darren at 11:10 AM
October 11, 2004
URL info - Analyze and Improve your Blog
URL info is one of the most useful tools for probloggers that I've recently stumbled upon. It may not look overly sexy when you first surf into it but this simple page has 107 useful tools for you to analyze...
Posted by Darren at 10:56 AM
October 06, 2004
Introduction to Paypal
Paypal Primer by: Jakob Jelling To conduct business on the Internet, whether informal, one-time only transactions between two friends, or a full-fledged business selling products or services, payment arrangements have to be made. Before 1998, this often meant either...
Posted by Darren at 09:09 PM
October 05, 2004
Gawker Targets Males with New Blogs
ProBlogger Nick Denton from Gawker has just announced three new blogs: - Jalopnik a blog about Cars - Kotaku a blog about Video Games - Screehead a blog about "funny shit." The blogs unashamedly are targeting a young male...
Posted by Darren at 05:08 PM
October 04, 2004
CopyScape - Keeping your Content Secure from Plagiarists
CopySafe is an internet infringement Protection tool that helps you to find out of people are stealing your blog's content. I've accidentally stumbled upon a number of sites recently that have copied and pasted articles that I'd written word for...
Posted by Darren at 10:55 AM
September 26, 2004
GreyMatter Blog Publishing Platform Review
Business Blog Consulting has a good review of the Grey Matter Blog Publishing platform that is really worth a read if you're thinking through which is the best blogging platform for you. Rick describes Grey Matter in this way:...
Posted by Darren at 02:35 PM
September 24, 2004
Nokia pioneers cellphone blogging
Tools like those Nokia and Six Apart are developing for moblogging will be very useful for pro-bloggers in the future. The technology is constantly improving to allow updating your blog from virtually anywhere. 'E-mails and text messages are passe,...
Posted by Darren at 02:01 PM
September 23, 2004
Beginners Guide to Moveable Typle
Creating a blog with Moveable Type - A beginners guide is one of the best MT tutorials I've ever seen. Seriously - it is so simply set out that even I can understand it. PART I - Introduction - About...
Posted by Darren at 06:21 PM
How to Translate your Blog into other Languages
Ever wanted to make your blog more accessible to people of other languages? I havn't done it yet - but here is a link on How to set your blog up for Machine Translation Looks like it might be reasonably...
Posted by Darren at 06:10 PM
Understanding Trackback And Comment Notification
Dave Pollard writes some great Blog Tips - here is another good one on Understanding Trackback. 'Trackback simply lets another site know that you have a post referring to it on your own site. Read the previous sentence until it...
Posted by Darren at 05:33 PM
Interactive Blog Tools
In the last blog tip we talked about how comments are one way to increase the interactivity of a blog. Of course not everyone agrees that comments are the way to go. Each to their own. Having harped on...
Posted by Darren at 04:42 PM
