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I got tagged - do I take up the challenge? 2007-05-17 22:23:00 In case you don't know what I mean by being tagged:I am not referring to: Being microchipped like a pet dog.Being bookmarked on del.icio.usWhat I do mean is that I have been challenged to take part in a couple of 'group writing projects'/ blog memes. The wikipedia definition of a meme is a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another in a manner analogous to genes". My definition in relation to blogging -"something you inherit from a blogger you know and pass on to other bloggers - the genetic reference much kinder than referring to it as something you catch like a bad cold. You have probably seen lots of memes around; they are particularly popular among teenagers on such blogging platforms as MySpace and Live Journal. I am well past teenage years (in age that is - some would dispute it in terms of maturity - eg those non blogging fans in my family who wonder why I do it!). Take a look at Instigator Blog and The Daily Meme sites for many examplesS
Linebuzz Founder Mark Maunder Comments 2007-05-15 23:00:00 The first two comments I received using LineBuzz came from me (It's a worry - I talk to myself using the chat feature on this page too!) . The third comment came straight from the horse's mouth - from Mark Maunder, the founder of Linkbuzz.As I thought his comment valuable for bloggers trying to increase traffic to their site, I have reproduced his comment here. Hope thats OK Mark.Hi Sue, Great blog, and I see you're one of the first to use our customization features since we launched yesterday.I thought I'd comment on methods to increase traffic via SEO.I used to run a job search engine which was one of Time Mag's top 50 websites of '05. We provided a search, but simultaneously got a lot of traffic from the non-vertical search engines like Google. Bloggers generate a lot of new content daily which search engines love and that's one of the keys to promoting any website to the SE's. And you've mentioned that in your article.But another key is letting the search engines know abou Read more:Comments
Linebuzz - a novel approach to commenting 2007-05-15 22:22:00 When I discovered LineBuzz , I was immediately compelled to try it out. I think this novel
application, which went into beta yesterday, has the potential to be a real winner within the blogsphere.LineBuzz will let your blog readers add comments inline. How it works.Readers of your blog can highlight any post text and hit on a "Comment Inline" button (which would usually be best placed in a sidebar).This pops up a window where they can add a comment. The comments are then displayed in a box under the "Comment Inline" button. Text that has been selected for commenting is underlined when your page next reloads. Clicking the underlined text text triggers a pop-up showing the the comments made. Apart from the usefulness of having your comments displayed in this way, readers can comment about a particular part of your post.Installation is simple. LineBuzz creates the script for you. All you need to do is type in your blog url and then insert the script where you want the comments to appear
Social Bookmarks Manager 2007-05-20 07:49:00 Social Bookmarks
Manager is a small freely downloadable program which creates bookmarklets for your site. You can create either text only, icon only or text and icon links. The program comes with 59 profiles of the most popular social bookmarking sites and generates ready-to-use HTML code for you to paste into your site.It is a good idea to tag and bookmark your own posts too. Rather than adding numerous tags to my post and having too many categories, I bookmark my posts so that I can find them easily by adding more specific tags. Online public bookmarking is also one of the ways to increase traffic to your site so ensure if you have the option that your blog bookmarks are not private.Here is an example using 10 out of the 59 online bookmarking services supported by the application.Add to: Tags: Tagging, Bookmarking, Blog-Tools sueblimely Read more:Social
Increase your Blog Readership Part 2 - Presentation 2007-05-18 12:32:00 Having worked out your individual needs for your blog, think about your content presentationWrite content that will be of interest to the audience you are trying to reach.It is unlikely that all of your posts will be of interest to all of your readers of course, but aim to captivate as many as you can.What sort of content is of most interest may take some time to work out, although research will help you get started. Visit popular blogs about a similar topic. Find them by doing search engine searches, Google blog searches, visiting popular bookmarking services such as del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, technorati. Deduce from this what you think are popular topics, or sub topics of your particular subject area. Even if your content is quite unique, visiting successful blogs can provide you with useful information.. Once your blog gains readership, popularity of posts is easier to determine. You have such tools as backlinks, comments, bookmarked posts and email subscriptions and site statisti
Bubble Tooltips 2007-05-21 16:35:00 If you hover over the links in this post to see "Bubble
Tooltips" appear. (please wait for page to load for them to show)The script for this was created by Alessandro Fulciniti. Please read his his article for a full description and code download..Alessandro Fulciniti's Examples of bubble Tooltips If no title is specified then only the link address is shown in the bubble. Bubble Tooltip made with title attribute.I have applied the script to the whole of this blog as I believe it will be useful for adding extra notes to not only external links but to ordinary text too.Tags: Tooltips, Blog-Tips, Blog-Coding sueblimely
If You Remember No Other Traffic Tip, Remember This One 2007-05-21 13:27:00 I would recommend this post to those of you who are starting out blogging and are concerned about increasing traffic. John, of "Finding The Money" fame, has again come up with a well written article that pulls no punches and makes perfect sense.The article spurred me on and I hope you find it encouraging too. I am not going to give away his tip as you need to read it in context. (I also don't think it good betiquette to take advantage of someone else's idea in posts but I will certainly put his advice to good use.)If You Remember
No Other Traffic Tip, Remember This OneTags: Traffic, Blog-Tips, sueblimely
Picasa Web Albums for Blog Images 2007-05-25 18:55:00 I have written a post on my other blog Sueblimely Practicing The New Blogger but realised that most of it applies to other blog platforms too. You can find the post here:Picasa
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Blogging Toolbox 1-Firefox/Flock 2007-05-24 15:24:00 Firefox - is my browser of choice, with Flock a close second. Both allow easy addition of useful extensions and toolbars for blogging.Extensions:ScrapbookUses - blog editing and researchScrapbook allows you to download pages, complete with images, quickly and simply and then edit them using any html editor/text. I find this extension indispensable and especially useful to view and style xml and java script generated content; which you can't normally view until you have saved your template or posted your blog.Major Features:Save a web pageSave a snippet of a web page by selecting text and images Save a web site (In-depth Capture)Erase parts of the page prior to capture if there are areas you do not want. (e.g. you may just wish to do some styling of your sidebar) Organize the collection in the same way as BookmarksIt is great for the New Blogger. I 'scrapbook' my page; which is captured in html format. I can alter the CSS, add elements to the page, see my results in the browser and Read more:Blogging
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My Blogging Toolchest 2007-05-24 12:59:00 If you are a regular blogger, or one who has limited time to write, you need tools to help you get organised, research, style and post quickly. (I am English/Australian and don't spell organize with a z.)In this series of posts I would like to share with you some of the resources in my own 'blogging toolbox'.I will be covering such topics as:Firefox extensions and toolbarsPost to blog applicationsEditing software and toolsOrganisational methodsOnline UtilitiesResearching methods.Other things that come to mind on the way!I am always willing to try new blogging tools - so if you know of any that you think are worth me taking a look at, please let me know.Tags: Blog Tools, Blog-Tips, Suggestions-Welcome sueblimely Read more:Blogging
Contactify - for hiding email addresses 2007-05-27 14:20:00 Contactify allows you to be securely emailed from your blog without revealing your email address.Sign up with Contactify and you are furnished with your own link to a personal 'Contact Me' form. This link can be simply inserted into any webpage.This will prevent spam mail by:not having to display your email address in your code image validation submissionHere is an example using my own contactify link:Contact Me <a href="http://www.contactify.com/your contactify no">The text you want to show: e.g. Contact Me</a>Tags: Email, Blog-Tips, sueblimely Read more:hiding
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Alister Cameron in the eye of the storm 2007-06-02 05:29:00 Alister Cameron
Blogologist, in fine form, has written an article about the trials and tribulations of keeping up with all the tasks that bloggers are advised to perform to stay on top of the game.I was nodding my head in agreement over the time it takes to carry out the sort of tasks he mentions -reading, researching, subscribing, commenting.digging, bumping, favoriting, faming, fuelling, stumbling, submitting, tagging, dobbing* , befriending. If I have missed out a particular term used by a social networking site, please let me know.Alister puts it beautifully when he says "everyone knows your success on ... social voting/bookmarking sites is directly proportional to the number of friends (i.e. people you’ve never met)" The following don't take me much time unfortunately as Alister has not met a lot more people than I have not met.commenting, thanking for comments, commenting on comments, researching the best way to comment, thank for comments and comment on comments…..My head
Missing Madeleine McCann 2007-06-01 00:26:00 I have a fervent wish that the power of the internet can be fully utilized to create good in this world. Its ability to draw people together for a common goal is already happening in a multitude of ways.The blogging community is a prime example with its interactivity, social networking, commenting and web rings,. The resulting RSS feeds create constantly updated web content.Sites which include blogging features are developing to support charities and create mutual support (eg Care2, an online community for people who 'want to make a difference'and Careplace, a mutual support community.Bloggers have the power to get their message through quickly and widely and I believe we should use this ability much more for the common good. For this reason, I am posting the following message about the British 4 yr old , MadeleineMcCann
, who was abducted in Portugal on May 3rd:Tags: Link-Love sueblimely alexa Read more:Missing
Social Bookmarking as a Traffic Source - Part 2: StumbleUpon 2007-06-05 01:34:00 My mate Hans over at bloggst has been successfully developing his site. It is good to witness hard work bearing fruit. (I use the term 'mate' because I have become a true blue Aussie over the years - one with a Yorkshire accent to boot)Bloggst is an online community and resource center created exclusively for bloggers where members can share tips, help and experiences. (you do not have to be a member to gain access to reading a lot of the site but there are advantages in joining)Bloggst offers articles and posts written by Hans, forums and a marketplace. Members are rewarded for their participation on the site. The blogs of regular contributors are added to the site's blogroll. There is an add a friend feature allowing you to track blogs of interest.One of the topics Hans is developing is 'SocialBookmarking
as a Traffic Source
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as a Traffic Source - Part 2: StumbleUpon
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10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers - copyblogger 2007-06-05 00:51:00 copyblogger's article 10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers
is a clear guide on techniques to use for increasing readership.The main points made are:Make it easy and obviousBe laser focusedOffer a bribeUse viral ebooksDedicated subscription landing pageBecome a guest bloggerStart a podcastPost in forumsNetworkingCross-promotional dealsI won't give more detail as you can find that on the original article.Tags: Traffic sueblimely alexa
Sueblimely's Sunday Silliness (SSS) - Funny 404 Errors Codes 2007-06-02 18:30:00 I appreciate seeing originality on the net especially humorous content:These 404 error pages amused me:TechnoratidesignviewHomestar Runnersnopes.comTwitter (I am now a friend of Twitter Error!)If you want to check out more 404 error pages have a look at the sites listed at 404 Research Lab.Interested in finding out to create your own 404 error pages? HTMLSource has a good explanation.My mind is racing now, trying to think one up myself.EnjoyTags: Humor sueblimely alexa Read more:Sunday
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Quick Tip - Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar 2007-06-02 17:38:00 As I circumnavigate the blogosphere, searching for new blog tools and tips to report on in this blog, I end up visiting many many sites. Keeping on task has never been one of my strong points so I get sidetracked by sites (usually blogs these days) that talk of all sorts of weird and wonderful things.I also join social networking sites, make contacts, comment etc (see prior post!).All in all I have a huge amount of sites that I need to keep track on. As a quick and easy way of recording and organizing them I have created a folder, with subfolders, on my FirefoxBookmarksToolbar
. It is then simply a matter of me dragging a site's favicon icon on to the toolbar and into the appropriate folder.I am then able to find sites again easily although the rest of my family do not like using my PC because they cannot find anything easily.Come to think of it that is another good reason to have full toolbars and start menu folders with subfolders and subfolders ... They do not linger on my mac Read more:Quick
Stu Nicholls - CSSPlay 2007-06-08 01:35:00 I am a devotee of CSS styling and always CSS instead of tables, unless it is just not practical to do so. I think table coding is fine for tables - the more complicated ones at that.When I was learning web building I followed Stu Nicholls CSSPlay examples regularly, particularly for his menus and boxes. His menu examples are accompanied by clear tutorials and copy and paste coding.If you wish to create a menu but are not confident about coding and styling it yourself Stu has now provided an automatic Menu Builder to creates horizontal and vertical menus which can include pop outs and drop downs.Here is an example of one of his clever boxes - no images are used for this: Hover over the box for a surprise.Jack in the BoxBOO!Tags: CSS, Design, sueblimely alexa
Four Effective Ways to Get Your Blog Listed on the del.icio.us Popular Pages 2007-06-07 15:52:00 DoshDosh has written an interesting post on getting your posts noticed on del.icio.us His four points are:Develop Extensive Resource Lists which encourage bookmarksMarket Your Content: Social Website Channeling & Email PitchesSeed Your BookmarksSocial Media Optimize Your ContentI have given you just a tidbit here, head off to the article itself to find out more about the secret:Four Effective Ways to Get Your Blog Listed on the del.icio.us Popular Pages
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Care2 - making a difference 2007-06-07 15:15:00 I used the Care2 logo as an example in my last post and wanted to talk more about this wonderful community site; just in case you have not come across it.You may be aware of 'Click to Donate' but there are many more aspects to the site, including blogging features:Click to donate - help good causes with a click of a button. Free!My Page - Create your own personal page on Care2!Care2 Share - Start a blog, tribute, recipes, polls and more.Groups - Join groups of interest and contribute by posting and commentingPetitions - sign petitions or start your own.E-Cards - over 25,000 special cards, all free.Care2 News Network - The community determines what makes the Front Page!Photos - upload and share your photos. Unlimited storage.E-Mail Accounts - Free 100MB storage.Care2 JobFinder - Good companies. Great Opportunities to make a difference
.Care2 VolunteerNetwork - Make a difference near you!Please read more at the Care2 About Us page.Tags: Link-Love, Social-Networking, sueblimely alexa Read more:making
Add Captions to Images 2007-06-07 14:45:00 Surf along to The Last Word blog and you will find the instructions and coding to Add captions to images; an example of which you can see below:The code includes javascript and css styling.The image is linked to the Care2 site which is well worth exploring too.Tags: CSS sueblimely alexa Read more:Images
Jyte - make claims to increase traffic to your blog 2007-06-07 09:16:00 As with all social networking sites the more you put in, the more you benefit. Merely joining them is not enough to increase your blog traffic
. Jyte allows 'claiming' on any topic under the sun but also caters for claiming URLs and selected text from a site. By making popular statements about any subject, and submitting post titles and selected phrases, you are increasing your exposure and that of your blog. Claim regularly to increase your chances of success.Study what sort of claims
are voted for the most and how they are phrased.Repeat a popular topic with a different slant.Find out what keywords are popular.Be clever with your statementsBe humorous.Add favorite 'claimers' and give credit to others. That’s the theory I am going to follow. Tags: Traffic, Social-Networking, sueblimely alexa Read more:increase traffic
What is Jyte? 2007-06-07 04:22:00 I have been exploring and participating on Jyte today and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I recommend you take a look. It has potential for use as a source of traffic to your blog - more on that in the followin post.Jyte is an acronym for "just you tell 'em";a community based website. The idea is that you make "claims" (a declarative statement) on any topic you wish, have those statements voted on and vote on the claims of others.The 'claim' takes the form of a headline, an optional description and tagging. You have the option to discuss/comment on any claims.Features:Make public claims for others to vote on. Vote on claims you agree or disagree with.Add favorite members.Join groupsCredit (favorite) other members and be credited yourselfYour own account page where you build a profile, track your claims, claims you have voted on and 'creds' you have given and received.Search claims by Timeline, Most Votes, Discussed, Solid, Contested and Recently Commented.Use your openID as you
iStalkr - Social Networking Feed Aggregator 2007-06-06 16:08:00 iStalkr is a kind of social networking feed aggregator site.Features:Add feeds you wish to monitor and publicize: your blogs, social bookmarking and networking sites and those of friends, online contacts or just sites of interest.iStalk other users. iStalking is the process of tracking the feeds of other members by making them 'friends'.Be iStalkred by others( or is that iStalkrd).Track the activities of other members - that is add individual feed items to your favorites.Read the aggregated feeds in timeline format.Examples of the kind of feeds you can track:BlogsTwitterdel.icio.usDiggma.gnoliaLast FMAny Atom or RSS feedThe name sounds a little disconcerting but if you look at it in terms of iS talking I think the name quite clever (although I still have to find out who iS is).The service is still in Beta - it will be interesting to see what the participation will be like. The following image link leads to my own iStalker page where this blog post should take top position in my ti Read more:Social
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Sueblimely's Sunday Silliness - Web 2 point Ohhh! 2007-06-10 11:33:00 Thanks to Colin Campbell for the following addition to my funny 404 error page list. Colin writes the Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe blog and is co-author of BlogpowerGreenpeace 404 page - Sorry! We couldn't find that page!My SSS for this week is a foray into the vlogosphere - a YouTube video clip:Web 2 point
Ohhh! I am not sure what applications he was using but it I was impressed by the java (coffee that is) and the 'feed' they produced. I was wondering if he had ordered potato instead of pizza would it be considered a 'mash-up"?Ok I will give it a REST now.If you were looking for a more serious tutorial on Web 2.0 please take a look at this YouTube video: Web2 humor, SSS, sueblimely alexa Read more:Sunday
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Top 10 Blog Designs - An Encomium 2007-06-08 10:42:00 On my blog travels I often come across designs that appeal to me, sites that are that are original or striking in one way or another. I thought I would share some of them with you and spread some link love. My taste in blogs design tends to relate to readability: clean clear layout, plenty of 'white space', no clutter or loud distracting backgrounds.Here are my current top 10 favorites:doshdoshGenius at PlayMashablesagemediasquioTinySigns Genius at PlaySEO BookiwizSEOmozPlease let me know if you come across any others that you think worthy of a mention here.PS - Encomium = Warm, glowing praise / a formal expression of praise / a tribute.Tags: link-love, Design, sueblimely alexa Read more:Designs
Daily Link Love - we all need a little love 2007-06-14 15:23:00 Daily Link Love is a program run by Alex, author of "Blog About Money Online" who gives away free links (almost) every day to bloggers who write about topics that relate to:making money onlinetraffic generationad networkspaid to programsSEOblogging tipstechnology That is, subjects that relate to those on Blog About Money Online.Some other rules:You must update your blog at least once every 2 daysThe blog must contain over 20 posts.(I have just got over the 100 mark on this one with about 500 in the pipeline!)If you are interested in sharing the love then take a look at the post that will give you more details (and hang around a while to read some of the other posts if you are interested in tips on how to make money online and what things to avoid in the process.):Daily Link Love - I'm Giving Away Free Links Every Day! Link-Love sueblimely alexa Read more:Daily
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Bubble Tooltips update 2007-06-11 13:17:00 Bubble Tooltips is a script that presents tooltips with a graphic background. This can be an attractive design feature as well as a way of drawing attention to any messages you may want to emphasize. Tooltips display the text that appears in the "title" attribute of your url link. eg:<a href="sueblimelybt.blogspot.com" title="a blog about blogging">Sueblimely Discovering Blogging</a>I had the script installed on this blog but it conflicted with the Line Buzz inline commenting feature. I have therefore created an example on my own server. Example of Bubble TooltipsThe script for this was created by Alessandro Fulciniti. Please read his his article for a full description and code download.. Tooltips, Blog-Addins, sueblimely alexa Read more:Bubble
Unconcious Word Associations 2007-06-17 16:11:00 I have always been keen on cryptic crossword puzzles and word games so when I found the Unconcious Mutterings exercise I could not resist giving it a go. I did cheat though, in the respect of not writing down the first thing that came into my head but, as it says on the site"Rules are, there are no rules." There are no right or wrong answers. Don't limit yourself to one word responses; just say everything that pops into your head" FAQPychoanalysts may decipher from this that I am a obsessive blogger. They would not be right or would they? I did try to make the list relevant to blogging and provide you with some reading material too. 1. RidingYorkshire, puddingYorkshire Pudding 2.Actressbookeeper, hairHelmet Hair 3.FlowersRiversQuiet Rivers 4.Making PakinkMaking a Mark 5.Robottxt, disallowRobot Gossip 6.Enjoy bloggingEnjoy Surveillance 7.Identifytag, bookmarkIdentify 8.22 catch, Fish Catch 22 ..Fishing... 9.BusybloggingBusy Being Born10.Forwardblogging Blog ForwardUnconcious Thoughst
Sueblimely's Silly Sunday (SSS) 3 2007-06-16 20:45:00 For those of you with touch of the Peter Pan lurking inside you may appreciate this site The Perpetual Kid. The two products below tickled my fancy the most.The Blogosphere to Join United Nations [Royters, 7 June 2007]In a move set to revolutionize international diplomacy, the world wide group of bloggers collectively known as The Blogosphere is set to be represented at the United Nations. The move is seen as giving a voice to potentially millions of the world’s brightest minds.It is yet to be confirmed however who will provide the actual physical representation at the UN. Unconfirmed sources suggest that the blogger with the bestTechnorati rank will be selected but there is believed to be strong support for other measures to be taken into account. Google page rank and Alexa statistics are two favoured by many.Read the full post on the "You Can't Coach That" site humor, SSS, sueblimely alexa Read more:Silly
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