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Put Some Flavor On Your Blog Rush Widget 2007-09-20 07:32:00 Finally, Blog Rush is going to introduce flavors on their widget. With the introduction of Blog Rush flavors you'll be able to choose the color of your choice so it more closely matches the design of your blog. The new designs will be available in a few days.Blog Rush And TrafficIt's almost seven days since I've installed the Blog Rush widget on my blog but I don't see any significant amount of traffic referral from the Blog Rush widget. I guess my expectation was too high. Despite the unmet expectations, I've decided to give Blog Rush some more time. I know that Blog Rush has just been launched and haven't operated for more than a month so lots of improvements should be done. I'm sure that John Reese and the rest of the Blog Rush team are really working hard to keep up to their promises and deliver the expected services from them. It's sad that some bloggers have judged Blog Rush too early and didn't even give it a chance. Well, I guess time will tell.Blog Rush ProblemsToday, ...

What's New at BlogCatalog? - Blogcatalog Groups 2007-09-19 21:19:00 Yesterday, I've received an invitation from Tony, one of the Administrators of BlogCatalog to try the latest feature that BC has to offer to its members... the BLOGCATALOG GROUPS.Blogcatalog created a means for its members to join groups of their interest or create their own groups. By joining Blogcatalog groups, you will be able to join discussions in the group and even create a new discussion. This form of discussion is better because the topic is more tailored to the interest of all the group members. The general discussion on the other hand covers a broader topic so it may contain topics that you may not find interesting.Currently, there are 19 Groups that have been created and expect the number to grow in the coming days. Check out these groups and don't forget to join.Bloggers and Blogging :Need help or assistance on your blog and blogging? That's what this group is created for. You can ask for help from the members or give a hand to others. I've created this group and I made ...

Increase Technorati Authority and Blog Ranking 2007-09-18 09:06:00 Technorati Authority and Technorati Blog Ranking are widely used to gauge a blog's performance. Blogs with higher Technorati Authority and Blog Ranking are usually considered 'the better blogs'. Moreover, blogs with higher Technorati Authority and Rank have higher chances of being featured at Technorati, which certainly improves a blog's traffic. Now if you're up for recognition and more traffic, here are some simple guidelines you can do to increase your Technorati Authority and Technorati Blog Rank in no time.To increase your blog's Technorati Authority and improve your blog's Technorati blog rank, all you need to do is to increase the number of inbound links (links from other blogs pointing to your blog) to your blog. There are several ways you can do to increase your blog's inbound links. Here are some simple ways you can do.Claim Your BlogThe Technorati Authority of a blog only starts to increase once a blog has been claimed. Claiming your blog is quick and easy but before ...

Blog Rush - More Exposure Equals More Traffic 2007-09-17 05:51:00 Blog Rush is the latest service in the blogosphere that promises to increase your blog traffic and blog readers. It was a concept from John Reese, one of the respected and successful internet marketers. Several reviews have been done about Blog Rush since it was launched. Darren Rowse of Problogger and Maki of Dosh Dosh made a more comprehensive review of Blog Rush. Meanwhile, here's a shorter review I made about Blog Rush.How does Blog Rush works?The idea of Blog Rush driving traffic to your blog is made possible through the installation of Blog Rush's widget on your blog. The widget contains five different links from other Blog Rush members. Once it has been installed on your blog you posts will be featured to other participating blogs. This means, your blog will be exposed and featured on other participating blogs. The number of exposure you get depends on several factors.Page ImpressionThe number of page views you blog gets is the same number of exposure you can get from other Bl ...

Fechr.com - Broken Promises and Failed Expectations! 2007-09-16 04:23:00 Fechr.com - Does it ring a bell? Probably you will remember Fechr if you're one of those who made a review of Fechr.com hoping that one day, you'll get 'Fechr-ed' on their website.Fechr.com had its debut around July of this year. Basically, Fechr.com is a website that features other blogs or website on its homepage. Fechr, pronounced as 'feature' made a promise to feature blogs on their homepage who make a review of Fechr. All blogs who made a review of Fechr were included on a list and were scheduled to be featured for 24 hours one after the other.Because I'm one of those who made a review of Fechr, I visit Fechr daily to check the blog being featured. Over the past two weeks, I've noticed that the blog featured has never been changed. Moreover, there were no updates whatsoever to inform everyone about what is happening or what seems to be the problem over there. The way I look at it, Fechr has been abandoned and hasn't been updated over the past two weeks.Fechr - The Broken ...

Create Your Own Free Three and Two Column Templates (Blogger, Movable Type, pMachine etc.) 2007-09-13 21:16:00 The other day, I was looking for a website that offers free Blogger templates to review on my coming posts. I was lucky enough to have stumbled upon Firdamatic : The design tool for the uninspired blogger.As the title of this post says, Firdamatic is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze. Firdamatic allows you to create your own free three column template or free two column template that you can use on Blogger, Movable Type, pMachine etc.Previously, I have created several posts and reviews on websites or blogs that offer free templates you can download and implement on your Blogger (Blogspot) account. From my previous post, you can find links to websites that features free three column, two column, four column and themed Blogger templates. You might want to check these post if you want more choices.Free Blogger Templates - Four Columns / Three ...

Beware of Quechup.com. It's One Hell of a Spammer! 2007-09-12 07:32:00 As soon as I've learned that Quechup.com has accessed all the contacts of it's members and send invitation to join Quechup.com, I've automatically deleted my Quechup account.Before I have joined Quechup, I've received a huge number of invitation from different people, most of them I don't even know. It was through the invitation of a friend from BlogCatalog, that I've finally decided to join. Unfortunately, the invitation I've received from him was an invitation created by Quechup by accessing the contacts of my friend on his email and send an invitation to all of them. Clearly, what Quechup did was UNAUTHORIZED and ABUSIVE.After I have signed up for a Quechup account, the invitation to join Quechup suddenly stopped from flooding my email. I thought things are going to be okay only to find out that it's just the beginning. You see, I am using three emails for different purposes. The one I've used to sign up at Quechup is my Gmail account. When I've opened my other emails, I w ...

Exchange Blog Reviews - An Open Invitation 2007-09-08 07:13:00 Reviews are very useful sources of information that help bloggers improve their blogs and blogging skills. A Blog Review is a comment or note from other people which could either be a positive, negative or a combination of both. Here are some more technical definition of the word 'REVIEW' from other websites.A review is a piece of writing that discusses the author's opinion on a piece of publication, such as a movie, video game, musical composition, or novel. In addition to the verbalized opinion there may also be a formalized assessment; for instance, the author may assign the work one to five stars to indicate its relative merit. More loosely, an author may review current events or items in the news. A compilation of reviews may itself be called a review.WikipediaAn assessment at a point in time of the progress of a project or program. They can be formal or informal, broad or in-depth. Reviews and evaluations often overlap in practice.Evaluate ItRegardless of whether a Blog Review ...

Free Directories - Submit Your Blog Now! 2007-09-08 07:13:00 To get your blog or website a good Google Page Ranking, you should have done extra efforts in creating more links pointing to your blog. You can get a link to your blog by visiting other blogs that implement 'DoFollow' on their comments and leave your feedback and opinion on their posts (make sure you read the post and NEVER try to spam!).Another way to get more links to your blog is to submit it to different directories. There are a lot of directories that offers free and paid submission but I'd encourage you to submit it for free if you don't have the budget for paid directories. You'd be surprise that there are a lot of free directories where you can submit your blog for free. Here's a list of directories where you can submit your blog for FREE.Now you've probably heard somewhere else that submitting your blog to free directories is not really useful as most of these directories do not have good Google Page Ranking and are just newbies. Instead you are encouraged to pay for a ...

How to Protect Your Blogger Blog From Hackers? 2007-09-07 02:18:00 What could be more devastating to a Blogger than to wake up one morning and find out that his/her Blog has been hacked. Recently, there have been recorded incidents of Blogger accounts being hacked. Most of these Blogger accounts either disappeared or cannot be accessed due to erroneous password or user name combination. How could have these incidents happened? Was it because of Blogger's loose security or bloggers' carelessness?It turned out that most Blogger blogs that have been hacked were due to the bloggers' carelessness. In today's post, I've listed some tips that can help Blogger users reduce the risk of their blogs being hacked. Most of these tips are common sense but it would still be worth reading.Keep Your Personal Information PrivateMaking your private information accessible by the public makes your blog at a high risk of being hacked. Information you share on your accounts on social networking sites such as Friendster, Myspace, Facebook etc. could be used to hack your ...

Free Blogger Templates 2007-09-06 02:18:00 Blogging Mix has been receiving most of its organic traffic from the keywords / key phrases 'FREE BLOGGER TEMPLATES' and 'FREE THREE COLUMN BLOGGER TEMPLATES'. To feed the search engines with more information on free blogger templates and free three column blogger templates, I've decided to review blogs and websites that offer free blogger templates. If you are one of the bloggers or webmasters who operate or manage blogs that provide free blogger templates, kindly leave a link to your website or blog through the comment. I will be glad to give your blog a review and refer it to my readers.Today, I've discovered, Templates For You - New Blogger, which is another blog that provides free blogger templates compatible to the New Blogger. Currently, there are 11 free blogspot templates, 8 two columns blogger templates, 2 three columns blogger templates and 7 Wordpress and CSS templates reconfigured for Blogger users.Free Blogger Templates For You - New Blogger is a blog created and ma ...

Viral Linking to Increase Technorati Ranking and Google Page Rank : Your A-Z Blogs 2007-09-04 08:41:00 I am really glad that I have tried Viral Linking or Viral Tagging. At first I was really hesitant about this whole concept of viral linking / viral tagging but after I've found that it really works, I'm doing another batch. This time, I've decided to be more creative. I thought of the idea of creating a link of my A - Z Blogs. I hope you too participate and experience the power of viral linking. All it takes is a single post. Here are the simple instructions you should follow to join this activity:Copy and paste the links provided below. (From Blog "A - Z")Replace the link to which the first letter of your URL starts with. (e.g. "B" for Blogging Mix) You may choose to use anchor text to link to your blog and replace the link to which the first letter of your anchor text starts. (e.g. "S" Search Engine Optimization.Please limit your anchor texts to 4 words to make it more manageable.Here are some reasons why I encourage you to join viral linking:Increase your Technorati Ranking and G ... Google

Blogging Contest 2007-09-03 08:14:00 Blogging Contest is becoming increasingly popular around the blogosphere. Since blogging contest has been proven to increase the number of traffic and links to a blog, a lot of bloggers have started to host their own. As a result, you would normally stumble upon blogging contest as you go around visiting other blogs.These blogging contests have different requirements and offers different prizes. Normally, blogging contests would require you to review a certain blog, link to a blog using some customized buttons or help a blog to increase its traffic. In return, you'll get the chance to win their prizes, which could be any of the following: permanent link, monetary reward, computer related products, seo books among others.The other day, I've decided to join a blogging contest hosted by Chris at Blogsrecord.com. In order to qualify, I've created a review of Blogsrecord.com and included a Blogsrecord button on my right side bar. I hope you find time to join the contest as well.Here are ... Blogging

Blogsrecord.com - Blogging Mix Review 2007-09-02 10:42:00 When I've started Blogging Mix, the first thing I did was to get my blog registered to as much Search Engine, RSS and Open Web Directories as possible. This is a good way to start a successful blog for 2 reasons:Increase the number of links to your blog, which will also increase your blog's Page Ranking (Google and Technorati).Get your blog exposed to more people who are using directories. This will result to an increase in the number of traffic to your blog.Speaking of directories, I've decided to blog about Blogsrecord.com in today's post.What is Blogsrecord.com?Blogsrecord is a promising new social blog directory where you can submit your blog, search for blog of your interest and interact with other members. Blogsrecord is maintained and managed by Chris who is also the person behind EntertainmentBoxed and FMTune.I personally encourage you to join Blogsrecord. Membership to Blogsrecord and blog submission are both free and it'll take you less than 5 minutes to register. Once y ... Blogging

Improving Comment System For Blogger Blogs 2007-08-31 07:47:00 Today, I've implemented a new way for Bloggging Mix readers to leave their comments. Unlike before, you need to click on the comment link to be directed to a new window where you can find a form to leave your comments and reactions. This is the default setting of all Blogger Templates. However, with the integration of Haloscan on my template, a readily available comment form can be found at the end of each post.Dilemma: Search Engine Optimization Over Convenient Commenting SystemI'm not sure if using Haloscan is search engine friendly since it uses java script. This is one of the reasons that kept me from implementing it before when I've started Blogging Mix. As I was reading some articles on increasing the number of comments on your blog posts, I came across an article that compares the commenting system of Wordpress and Blogger. According to the same article (unfortunately, I forgot the link to it), bloggers using Wordpress gets 47% more comments from their readers than Blogger us ...