Archive for August, 2007

Are You A New and Overwhelmed Blogger

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Thursday, August 30th 2007   
Filed In: Archives, Lessons Learned, New To Blogging    Tags: , , ,

If you’re new to blogging, you may be overwhelmed with all of the blogging language. You did find out that blogging has it’s own language, didn’t you?
My best advice to new bloggers, is to take it, one step at a time. There is no way, you’ll learn all there is to blogging, “overnight”.
Once [...]

Best Source For WordPress Newbies

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Wednesday, August 29th 2007   
Filed In: Archives, Hints, New To Blogging    Tags: ,

If you’re a newbie to blogging, who is using WordPress, finding the right information can be difficult. Searching for information about blogging with WordPress, can produce millions of results.
The best source for WordPress, is in an obvious place. It’s at WordPress .org. By clicking on the following link, you will be directed [...]

Review - Sitemeter Statistical Data

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Tuesday, August 28th 2007   
Filed In: Archives, Reviews, Stats    Tags: ,

Sitemeter is one of many statistical data reporting services for bloggers and webmasters.
When one of my “Blogging Buddies”, mentioned they were using Sitemeter, I decided to give it a try. I was pleasently surprised at the detailed information Sitemeter provides.
Sitemeter contains:
1) Updated stats which shows “who’s on”
2) A map of where your [...]

Plugin - WordPress.com Stats

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Monday, August 27th 2007   
Filed In: Archives, Plugins and Widgets, Stats    Tags:

WordPress.com Stats is a great plugin for checking your stats. The WordPress Stats plugin, does not count the visits you make to your site(s).
Like Akismet, with the WordPress.com Stats plugin, you need an API key. Once the API key is entered, the rest is automatic. You will then find “Blog Stats” on [...]

Google Sitemap Generator

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Friday, August 24th 2007   
Filed In: Archives, Plugins and Widgets, SEO    Tags: , ,

If you have a new blog, and want to get indexed by Google, Yahoo, plus other search engines, thus improving search engine optimization, it’s apparent that a site map is imperative to install.
What is a site map? Think of a site map as a blueprint of your site. When you first generate [...]

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