I added a couple of new ping addresses you might want to send your blogs to the other day, but forgot to mention it. They’re on the Blogging Resources page. But here they are for your convenience:
http://www.completerss.com/AddFeed.aspx — added 5/7
http://www.search4rss.com/addfeed.php — added 5/7
Unless I am a complete idiot, these sites did not have ping addresses [...]

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I signed two of my blogs up for BlogKits today - and also for the BlogKits/Overstock deal. BlogKits matches blogs with people who want to put ads on their blogs. To sign up, you just fill out the form with your info, then stick a bit of invisible tracking HTML on your blog’s pages. If [...]

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If you want to get anywhere online, organization is important. And it’s easier than you might think. Some people use applications on their home computer and keep their organizational tools offline. That’s fine, if that works for you. But I like being able to work from more than one computer, so that means I need [...]

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When your sites get indexed by the search engines, pages can be indexed with or without the “www”. It all depends whether your inbound links to those pages contain it or not.
But to the search engines, it’s two different domains, housing duplicate content. How much does that suck? And yes, people have been [...]

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After a recent database crash nightmare, caused by a former host’s configuration errors, I would love to find a way to test all my hosts. From the research I’ve been doing the past couple of days, it appears that databases are corrupted by server settings and issues, not end users like me, or even the [...]

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You may be familiar with the hair-ripping agony I have experienced at the hands of disappointing web hosts. Most recently, a former host for one of my other sites had what I thought was a cpanel glitch preventing my sites from accessing their databases. Turned out it was even worse than I thought, but the [...]

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I woke up today, got some coffee, and had a look at my stats, and guess what I found? A porn site is the top referrer to one of my distinctly non-porn, non-sex, non-anything-like-that-at-all blog sites. Thanks for the inbound link?
Not quite. First of all, there is no inbound link. Okay, I admit, I didn’t [...]

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This site was down for a few hours on Friday, and now another blog of mine - the one I call the “B-2 Bomber” - has been mostly belly up for 2 days.
Actually, the sites weren’t down - the databases had become inaccessible. In the case of this site, it happened right after my host [...]

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I spent this weekend cleaning up my place, organizing my life, that sort of thing. Sometimes you reach a critical point where the clutter is slowing you down enough that you’d be better off stopping work until you get it under control. Then you can work faster than ever.
It was in doing all this that [...]

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