Generating RSS Feeds for Your Blog

Blogs subscriptions are one of the things RSS feeds are most used for. In fact because of the popularity of using RSS feeds for blogs subscriptions a lot of blogging tools have a built-in function or feature for automatically generating RSS feeds or Atom feeds (in the case of blogger) so that their bloggers won't have to bother themselves with the how-tos of making an RSS feed. This means that as a blogger if you are using one of the common blogging tools all you need to do is indicate in the settings that you want an ... 0 Comments

SEO and Efficiency

SEO is a job that requires constant attention to any possible effects of Google’s frequent algorithm changes on the websites you maintain. Most days it is pretty boring looking at all the stats but some days sudden changes in PR, whether for the good or bad, can surprise you. If you manually check the stats of each website you maintain though it can be time-consuming and since most of the time there are really no major events happening that time consumed is frankly not worth it. This is why it is very important that as an SEO you learn to ... 0 Comments

Using Google Alerts to Fight Hackers

Many times web owners find that their website has been hacked a little too late. The reason for this is usually simple – no one really has that much time to spend checking and their rechecking their site very frequently to guard against signs of hacking. This is especially true if you’ve had your site for sometime and haven’t experienced much trouble and so get complacent. Thanks to Google Alerts we have one of the most convenient ways of knowing if a hacker has got to your site. All you have to do is use Google to monitor queries for ... 0 Comments

Subscription Sharing at Bloglines

One of the things that Bloglines likes to boast about is the easy sharing of your subscriptions to your friends and just about everyone else who uses Bloglines. There are actually two ways you can share your subscription to everyone - though your blogroll and through the Bloglines website itself. Blogger's, even non-Bloglines bloggers, use blogrolls, which are simply lists that link to other blogs. Bloglines makes it very easy to add links to your blogroll by providing a wizard that generates a small piece of HTML that you can add to your blog that ... 0 Comments

More on Bloglines

There are basically four things you can do when using Bloglines. 1. Subscribe to blogs, email groups, and websites. 2. Publish your own blog. 3. Search billions of articles. 4. Share your favorites (subscription favorites) to your friends. However there's much much more that Bloglines has to offer. According to their website this is the list of their key features: * All-in-one Blog and news feed search, online subscriptions, news reader, blog publishing and social sharing tools * Available in 10 languages * Mobile version optimized for hand-held computers and cell phones * Email subscriptions help manage your e-newsletter traffic * Package ... 0 Comments

Joining Bloglines

Like in most sites that offer good services nowadays, it is very easy to join Bloglines. All you need to do to create your account is click on the Register link found at the top right portion of the page or the big Sign Up link on the middle of the page, fill in the required information, make sure you've read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and click on the register button. Of course you'll need to confirm your registration by clicking on the link they send you at your email but other ... 0 Comments

Bloglines Perks for Everyone – Part 2

Last post we discussed Bloglines' perks for ordinary bloggers. This time we'll be touching on the perks it offers to developers. According to their website there are different uses for the Bloglines Web Service especially when it comes to developing applications. Some of the uses include: *Desktop aggregator developers can use these calls to sync aggregators across multiple computers, while at the same time giving their users access to the most full-featured web-based aggregator available *The Bloglines Web Service can be used to develop more advanced notifiers *Feed and subscription data can be incorporated into blogs and ... 0 Comments

Bloglines Perks for Everyone

Bloglines is useful for both ordinary bloggers and the more technical web developers. Ordinary Bloggers For ordinary bloggers we have already mentioned the uses of Bloglines in the previous two posts especially when we spelled out the key features. Blogger who use bloglines to publish their own blogs will find that they also don't need to worry about generating their own feeds. Bloglines automatically does this IN MULTIPLE SYNDICATION FORMATS so that whether your users prefer using RSS 2.0 or OPML you won't need to worry about supporting these formats since it is automatically done for ... 0 Comments

Knowing Your SEOmoz Page Strength

For those who are interested in knowing their SEOmoz page strength (and who wouldn't considering the fact that we've discussed its importance) you can find out what it is exactly simply by visiting their site and using the Page Strength Tool. Even the clueless will find using this this tool very easy since all you have to do is type in your blog's URL on the provided box, click on the GET PAGE STRENGTH button, and wait for the results. After the results arrive you can display your score in your blog by copy/pasting ... 0 Comments

RSS Aggregators

To access your blog's RSS feeds your visitors need some sort of tool to help them compile the RSS feeds from you AND the other blogs they read. After all it would be pretty useless if they had to check a different tool or site for each blog they read. The job of compiling RSS feeds from different websites and blogs is done by RSS Aggregators. There are a lot of free RSS aggregators that blog readers can choose from in the internet. There's Google Reader, Bloglines, Rojo, Netvibes, and myYahoo!. It doesn't really matter what ... 0 Comments