I just found out about a new blog aggregation site called BloggerDen.
It bills itself as Digg for bloggers. As opposed to Digg, which covers general topics with an emphasis on technology, BloggerDen is geared toward blogger-specific issues.
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I encountered a problem a week or so ago with CommentLuv.
Whenever I’d go to comment on another site, CommentLuv would say there’s a feed error, and it wouldn’t let display my last blog post in the comment.
I thought it would go away just by fixing the feed, but it didn’t. Here’s how I finally fixed it.
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I ran across a neat website the other day that checks your blog (or non-blog website) for a number of problems.
Even if you’ve been diligent in setting up your website, there’ll probably be a few things that ismyblogworking.com can tell you.
For example, let’s take a high-traffic blog, John Chow’s. Even his blog has a number of problems.
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The cbnet Ping Optimizer Plugin for WordPress allows you to avoid pinging blog indexing services too often too soon, which could get your blog banned for spammy behavior.
Here’s the step-by-step process for installing the plugin.
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When you publish a post, WordPress tells a number of blog indexing services about it.
But it also does that every time you update the post, which for me is often five times in 10 minutes after publishing.
If ping them too many times, they can ban you for spammy behavior.
So, how do you avoid getting banned?
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Once you’ve signed up for a Technorati account, you should claim your blog.
Claiming your blog allows you to use Technorati tags to drive traffic to your blog from Technorati, which is the biggest blog search engine and aggregation site on the Internet.
Before Technorati associates a given blog on the Internet with your Technorati account, it [...]
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Want a quick way to double your pageviews?
When a reader comes to the end of a blog entry, do you want him to leave your site? Or view another article?
Chances are, if he was interested enough in the current post to open it up, he’s likely to be interested in other posts on the same [...]
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Some of my posts have been getting longer and longer, especially how-to’s. It’s hard to scan the front page for articles, and I thought it was time to switch from full posts to excerpts on the home page.
Why have excerpts instead of full posts on your home page
Some reasons you might want to show excerpts [...]
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WordPress 2.9 is out and it has a lot of new features to make using WordPress easier.
1. Global undo/trash
2. Image editor
3. Batch plugin updating
4. Easier video embedding
It also has 4 under-the-hood features that make blogging better with WordPress:
1. Canonical URLs
2. Automatic database optimization
3. Comment metadata
4. Faster Press This bookmarklet
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The upcoming WordPress 2.9 release has a lot of new features. Here are 10 that may make your life easier:
Trash status for posts, pages, and comments (includes restore and permanent delete)
Allow user registration to be enabled by an XMLRPC client
rel=’canonical’ for singular pages
Scroll back to the same location after saving a file in the Plugin [...]
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