I’ve been noticing that a lot of the really big important blogs don’t make it so easy for you to grab their feed through your favorite aggregator with one or two button clicks. Many offer just a barely noticeable link that says “RSS feed”. Then again, others give you several options, so apparently there’s a [...]

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Here’s something you need to know about, if you blog professionally, or just want your blog’s message to reach people as easily as possible: Technorati tags, or folksonomies. Essentially the same thing: think of Technorati tags as one brand of folksonomies. Both are more commonly known as “tagging”. Folksonomy tags act like those meta keywords [...]

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Now that I’ve started a directory of my own, I’m doing more research about using them wisely to build traffic to your sites. The direct traffic from a directory is unlikely to be very high, as many of the directories have less than stellar traffic themselves. So the main point of them is to create [...]

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A few days ago, I added a couple of neat things to the site and forgot to point them out. On the Blogging Resources page, there’s a link to a really neat stat script calls AXS. It self-installs if you fill in your FTP info, and it works beautifully. Lots of options, and you can [...]

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It appears Google has also updated their link popularity, which means you can tell for sure how many sites they recognize as linking inbound to yours. I got a link popularity tool, too.

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Finally, Google has updated pagerank after a long, long wait!
You can check out your pagerank using the Future Page Rank Toolbar here on Blue Mushrooms. But you may also want to try your sites at this page rank checker, because it’s getting different results, and it shows one of my sites improving where the other [...]

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You may want to start deleting your Google cookies regularly. Google recently announced My Search History, a service designed to allow searchers to track their results over time.
The short story is that Search History saves every search you make, no matter which computer you make it from, and lets you go back and view and [...]

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So it’s not just me? I’m new to AdWords, and my first campaign was somewhere between dismal failure and “well, there went a few dollars I’ll never get back”. I figured it was just a factor of me not knowing what I was doing. Which is true.
But apparently, my ignorance may not be the whole [...]

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As you may be aware, I have switched hosts on this blog twice now in the four months since it started. Its first host had a server crash, was down for most of two days, and to top it off, their backup was ten days old (yes, you should be doing your own daily backups, [...]

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Yahoo! has now rolled out their own blog portal. It’s in beta, and you need an invite to get one.
So if you want one, comment here. I’ve got 100 to give away.
It’s pretty cool - you connect with “friends” a little bit like LiveJournal. There aren’t a lot of features in place yet, but [...]

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