tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94715192024-03-07T04:41:01.129-05:00Blogs and its related technologies are relatively new to main stream marketers. There's much to accomplish in a marketer's everyday life let alone keep tabs on blogging technology. The most common questions I have are which blogging apps to use, what will work best for them, how and why they should use its related technology such as RSS, pinging, trackback and a lot more gems. I'll attempt to answer some of these here.Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1124948628304025652005-08-25T01:32:00.000-04:002005-08-25T01:43:48.310-04:00

Previously, I'd mentioned how cool WordPress picks up on mp3 files automatically. It is still a very good and time saving feature but I was a bit dissapointed when the audioblog.com files just wouldn't show up on my feeds as a podcast.It wasn't that easy to get the answer but eventually figured out, WordPress has difficulty picking up on files that are hosted off site. What a bummer and I

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1119773602410626702005-06-26T03:50:00.000-04:002005-06-26T04:13:23.566-04:00

If you read my last entry, something happened to my blog that pretty much doubled my traffic over at TechBasedMarketing.com . Well, my suspicions were wrong although related in some way. You see, I was trying to make the blog by email feature on WordPress to work so I installed a plugin that would simulate cronjobs.Unfortunately that plugin worked WAY too well may have been an error on my end too

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1118952276671503912005-06-16T15:57:00.000-04:002005-06-16T16:04:36.693-04:00

In my last entry I told you about the delayed ping plugin. You know something? I have every reason to believe that combined with the extended ping almost doubled my traffic. Now I've done a few things after I applied that plugin so I can't be 100% sure. Will enter more here when I gather more information. Meanwhile you can get the plugin hereMore technology powered marketing

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I've been waiting for this forever! You can now delay or schedule your pings for those future dated entries with this cool plugin. Previously, WordPress would ping the update services immediately after you hit publish so even if you schedule the entry for tomorrow or next week, it would ping immediately. This is not good because when a crawler comes looking or when people click through they may

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1114669767913213372005-04-28T02:29:00.000-04:002005-04-28T02:29:27.913-04:00

So I was going through the RSS Feed of my new blog The Big Seminar First Timer and discovered hey! Now this feed rocks! It's attractive! I could not only see the HTML formatting but also images and Instant Video Generator Video straight from my feed! I looked through the raw feed that WordPress generated and now I see how it's achieved. Cool - learnt something again!

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1112460741468701822005-04-02T11:52:00.000-05:002005-04-02T11:52:21.466-05:00

Recently I had to help a few people with their phpBB forums because of the rash of hacking acitivity. One of the things that made the vulnerable forums stand out is the version was published for all to see in the footer pages. So all someone has to do is search for phpbb version X footprints out there and you now have a list of vulnerable forums. As I was updating the Tech Based Marketing blog

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1112334788977103812005-04-01T00:53:00.000-05:002005-04-01T00:53:08.976-05:00

As you may know I'm a happy WordPress user. So this article on eWeek really caught my eye. My initial thought is... relief that this is not a problem with the script itself but a question of search engine optimization (or trickery) methods. At this point it's still not clear at least to me because it is claimed to be an effort to generate some cash for the project by hosting those pages. But I

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1110241496146543002005-03-07T19:24:00.000-05:002005-03-07T19:26:56.306-05:00

I was looking through my Chasing The Gurus blog and just realized the statistic counter feature I raved about earlier on... well I'm not liking it as much now. It's nice that it's there I just realized it only tracks reports for the day. I don't think I can see any past stats so it's not really functional. What a bummer!But! The good thing is, one of the referring pages that was on my stats was

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1109490178875392002005-02-27T02:42:00.000-05:002005-02-27T02:42:58.876-05:00

When I first read this I thought how can this be? But really it isn't any different than surfing a bunch of bad websites on a webring. The problem comes in when you're using IE and you click the next blog link on the very top of a blogspot blog. Since Blogger allows you to modify your templates, some bloggers are inserting Javascript that trick readers to download unwanted software. If you

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1109119001392778422005-02-22T19:36:00.000-05:002005-02-22T19:36:41.393-05:00

I'm going to have to find some time to update it and then I'll post more about it. I've suddenly got quite a bit of script updates/fixing jobs to do so my stuff takes the back seat :-(

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1108681219484699672005-02-17T18:00:00.000-05:002005-02-17T18:00:19.486-05:00

Well said Elise! Like her, I get asked the very same question often (and keep having to repeat myself :-D ) but since she's done a wonderful job explaining that on her blog I'm going to just send you there and thanks Olga for pointing it out.

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1108608005124798702005-02-16T21:34:00.000-05:002005-02-16T21:40:05.126-05:00

In one of my early posts, there was mention about how MSN Spaces' posting interface sucks... well it dawned on me not too long ago that I've been using Firefox all this time to update my Spaces Blog! Duh! Of course they don't support WYSIWYG on Firefox. It does on IE though.

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1108112627884708632005-02-11T03:45:00.000-05:002005-02-11T04:03:47.886-05:00

Published some stuff the other day and forgot whether I pinged or not! Do I hate that. Yea so Blogger pings but only Weblogs.com *grumbles* there are SO many other cool sites out there to ping like Feedster, BlogDigger... all the ones on pingomatic :-D

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1108111278519577612005-02-11T03:31:00.000-05:002005-02-11T03:41:18.520-05:00

Just looking at my profile I can't believe I've been on Blogger since April 2003! Wow... guess I can say I'm pretty seasoned huh... you guys today just don't know how easy you've got it :-) When I was dating my husband online (yeah no kidding) we maintained our own pages and in some ways you can call them blogs because that's what they really were a diary of our journey together and boy was it

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1107825741773517672005-02-07T20:22:00.000-05:002005-02-07T20:22:21.773-05:00

After listening to this call, and doing my own thinking, I've decided to test out something so I'm moving this particular blog to blogspot and redirected the original blog here. I want to know if having a blog on your own URL is better or on blogspot or any of the other blog providers. This decision was also sparked by looking at the rankings on Technorati. I claimed all my blogs on Technorati

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1107822162720460392005-02-07T19:22:00.000-05:002005-02-07T19:22:42.720-05:00

I've always been absolutely in love with w.bloggar. Maybe because I like to use my own computer to draft my blogs without fear of time outs or discconections. After over a year of using it I finally upgraded to the latest version, 4.0 and I'm loving it even more because now it supports more blog applications than ever and this new blog template option is so cool. Kudos to Marcelo the developer.

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1107001446468153702005-01-29T07:18:00.000-05:002005-01-29T07:24:06.466-05:00

Ah! Found another thing to love about WordPress. Auto Podcast support, works just like FeedBurner, no need to install any plugins, hacks, mods etc it's there. Found out by accident when my feed wouldn't validate because I'd posted a picture and WP picked it up and put it into enclosures which wasn't the problem it won't validate it was because it didn't pick up the size of the file (because it's

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1105785226793606702005-01-17T05:27:00.000-05:002005-01-29T07:18:14.573-05:00

If there's one thing I don't like about WordPress is... there is quite a bit of information and features that are ambigously named. E.g. Write = Post and in my last post, Edit timestamp. Took me a while to figure those out and all I wanted was something plug and play. Everyone wants to be different at the expense of users. The next guy who builds a blog tool that looks and feels like Blogger will

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1105784769133473202005-01-15T05:14:00.000-05:002005-01-15T05:26:09.133-05:00

I've been using WordPress on Tech Based Marketing's official blog and even experimented with b2 evolution but decided to stick with WordPress. Why WordPress or any other blog application other than Blogger? Well... for one I like the ability to have trackback. Yes sick as it sounds I do, sure there's the chance I'll get spam but at least I can review it before allow it to go through. But more so

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1103793664599283122004-12-23T04:21:00.000-05:002004-12-23T04:22:57.643-05:00

As I was updating my MSN Spaces blog Chasing The Gurus, I found another thing I don't like about it. The blog entry interface is not WYSIWYG and that's not such a big problem really but the fact that when you hit enter, it doesn't automatically insert line or paragraph breaks upon publishing. So I've to go in and enter the paragraph tags manually yuk!

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1103191672273036092004-12-16T05:01:00.000-05:002004-12-16T05:07:52.273-05:00

Horrors! Did I really say that? Yup! I know many marketers are just in love with Blogger but seriously, when Blogger goes down and you have time sensitive information to put out you're out of luck. This happened to me last night. For some unknown reason it just won't connect to my host and no the host was not down or anything. Worst, Blogger help files were... not helpful. If only it weren't so

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1103094175186497032004-12-15T02:02:00.000-05:002004-12-15T02:08:23.736-05:00

Ok so this is a departure somewhat but it's blog related, I just HAVE to post it. I tell you, these people keep getting better and better and better. Kinda makes me wonder when they're going to make some of these services premium. Meanwhile, get it while its FREE! FeedBurner has come up with Feedcount. It's a little graphic you can proudly display how many readers your feed has. It comes in

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1102980314979850752004-12-13T18:25:00.000-05:002004-12-13T18:29:33.480-05:00

Hey all recently I came accross a blog that referred to his podcast and audio blog as one and the same thing it isn't. Listen to my audio blog above to find out what's different and what blogging applications support audio blogs.

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1102832861775028882004-12-12T01:27:00.000-05:002004-12-12T01:35:54.746-05:00

Spurred by a request from my friend Kelly, I researched about podcasting for her show Wahm Talk Radio. So this week's post is going to depart slightly. For my research, I set up a podcast of my own. In one afternoon I created a new podcast and even a podcast generator! I'm beginning to enjoy this RSS related technology because it allows me to publish information a lot quicker than typing. I can

Lynettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13396375843126196271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9471519.post-1102244006030686282004-12-05T05:34:00.000-05:002004-12-05T06:20:03.633-05:00

Dec 2nd MSN rolls out its web based Blog app, and on the 4th I jumped at a chance to see how it works. I love Blogger and believe there's nothing like it but ever inquisitive I also like to see what others can do and share it with my fellow entreprenuers. If you're looking for a technical review sorry you aren't going to find it here though some things may still be a bit relevant. This review and

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