Articles about "blogging"What's the difference between a trackback and a ping?
I'm trying to figure out all this blogging stuff, but I'm a bit confused about two aspects of blogging: pings and trackbacks. What's the difference?...
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I have a couple of blogs (using Blogger) that are monetized using Google. But, the ads that appear are often completely unrelated to the content - sometimes embarrassingly so. Is there any way of getting the ads to be more...
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I've been blogging for a few weeks now and have taken to heart the advice you gave about trying to include graphics, images or photographs in blog entries. Problem is, I can't figure out how to have the text flow...
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I am about to open a new business (hopefully) and was told that blogging can really help - not only with website rankings but for more interest. So, my question comes to this: If you do a business blog, should...
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I've been using Google Analytics to track what's going on with my main Web site and now have a second site. Is there some easy way to have Analytics track both, or do I need to sign up for a...
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I've been listening to a ton of different podcasts in the last few months and while most are lame, there are a couple of really good ones. Is there some way I can vote for the good ones or otherwise...
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The biggest thing I want to get out of my blog is to leverage it in every way possible, and I thought part of that was by "syndicating" posts to other sites. I got the impression that that is possible...
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I love your site. I learn a great deal from you. But I am stumped and need some help: I publish a small blog that I hope to monetize. With blogs I subscribe to, I like to read the content...
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Just bumped into the latest bit of blogging jargon: a "tumbleblog". What the heck is it, something out of the old west?...
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What are your thoughts about putting an email/contact address on a blog? Sometimes people don’t want to leave a comment and send me long letters through the ‘conversation’ function at my Etsy shop, which is really strange, because they have...
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Over time I've managed to create a bunch of different blogs, some of which are live and others that have been relegated to the digital recycle bin. Except they're still in my Movable Type installation. How do I actually delete...
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Okay, I'm dabbling with Google Reader and am finding it pretty cool except for one big issue: every time I start up the program I have to read their "helpful hints" and am forced to click on "All Items" to...
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How to add a comment box in my blog? This is my blog: www.sillydrunkfish.blogspot.com. I would love to have a comment box that open for public to comment about my blogs, but i don't have one....
Continue reading about How do I enable comments on my blogspot weblog? How do I display latest postings in WordPress?
I have a wordpress site. My challenge? I wish to have my home page display only my latest 5 entries, yet want to have categories for my blog (when clicked upon) display all of the previous posts for that category,...
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I'm quite new to myspace and still not sure how to fully work it, I'm asking about how to upload pictures into your blogs? it doesnt seem to work for me?...
Continue reading about How do I add pictures to my MySpace blog entries? What new technologies should I incorporate into my online store?
With all the new technology coming fast and furious – RSS, video blogging, mobile advertising – is it wise for me to jump into any of these technologies for my affiliate site or should I wait for wide adoption of...
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Hi Dave. I work at a small, new company and I've been hounding the CEO to start a corporate blog. He mainly interested in increasing Pagerank and I've explained that a corp-blog will help with Pagerank, page views, branding, et...
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I dunno if you can help me out, but I've been using Typepad for quite a while now and it's time to move to my own blogging solution on my own server. My question is: how the heck do I...
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I'm pleased to announce that Ask Dave Taylor has made it into the finals of the 2006 Weblog Awards! I have some tough competition though, including slashdot, Engadget, Gizmodo and TechCrunch. But you can help! Click and vote for AskDaveTaylor:...
Continue reading about AskDaveTaylor finalist for best tech blog of 2006! Can I change an account password in Movable Type?
I manage a Movable Type blog that has a number of different authors and one of my less prolific writers just emailed me saying she can't log in any more. Is there a way I can change her password as...
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I just purchased Growing Your Business with Google and can't wait to start reading it. Here's my questions. What are the major differences between Blogger and WordPress and why would I want to use one rather than the other?...
Continue reading about What's the difference between Blogger and Wordpress? I need help from an expert on how to focus my blog?
I'm kinda stuck, Dave. I really want to learn how to really focus my blog efforts so I can gain more business advantage, but I haven't been inspired yet. Worse, I am stuck out in the boonies and don't have...
Continue reading about I need help from an expert on how to focus my blog? How do I add spacing to images in my RSS feed?
I'm pulling out my hair! I want to include images in my blog entries and have those images show up in the RSS feed too, but either I end up with no image showing up at all, or I end...
Continue reading about How do I add spacing to images in my RSS feed? Why would MySpace users subscribe to my blog?
I am a new myspace user. I know what a blog is and how to create one. What I don't know is what the implications of "subscribing to the blog". What does this mean exactly, for the subscriber and subscribee....
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I just read about a new blog for money service with the exceptionally weird name of CREAMaid. What's it about, how does it work, and can I really make a few bucks signing up for its service? Thanks!...
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I have a pretty long list of sites that I ping but only recently realized that I have no way of pinging the new Google Blogsearch service when I have a new entry on my MT blog! Is there a...
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I don't get it. From my statistics, it appears that I have a pretty good readership for my weblog, about 200-300 people per day, but no-one ever comments on what I'm writing. I just don't get it, what's wrong? is...
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One thing I really like about your blog, Dave, is your little links to both Digg and Del.icio.us. Simple, neat, but I'm baffled, how the heck do you do that within a Movable Type template? Do you mind sharing with...
Continue reading about How can I add Digg and Del.icio.us links to my blog? How can I host images on the Web?
I'm quite interested in having some photos and images on my blog and on MySpace, but it seems to me that I need to host them somewhere else on the Web, not on those free sites. Is there somewhere I...
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Can you give me the rudimentary HTML tags that I need to be able to create bold, italics, change font colors and include both hypertext references and images to my blog entries? Thanks!...
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Ever since you recommended it at a conference a while back, I've been a big fan of NewsGator Online as my RSS reader. As you said, being able to catch up on my feeds from any Web browser anywhere in...
Continue reading about Does NewsGator Online support sophisticated search patterns? How do I invite someone to check out my MySpace blog?
I know I saw it somewhere, but I can't find it now: how the heck do I invite someone to check out and hopefully subscribe to my MySpace blog? Please take it slow and be detailed - I find MySpace...
Continue reading about How do I invite someone to check out my MySpace blog? How can I start an eBay blog for my eBay store?
I heard that eBay's announced a new blogging tool, and I want to use it, because, well, I think it can help drive traffic to my eBay store and would be a fun additional marketing tool too. Not really too...
Continue reading about How can I start an eBay blog for my eBay store? How do I map my own domain to a Typepad Blog?
I've been using SixApart's Typepad blogging system for a few months with good results, and it's now time for me to stop being "something".typepad.com and use my own domain instead. I skimmed some of the tutorials on the Typepad site,...
Continue reading about How do I map my own domain to a Typepad Blog? Should we tweak our blog so it generates a valid RSS feed?
Should I adjust the blog I write for my company so it appears correctly when accessed via RSS readers? Is there a standard format in which the layout and content is delivered to RSS readers that I can use to...
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I'm a bit baffled, to be honest. I'm getting comments left on my weblog that kinda/sorta seem like they're relevant, but don't entirely make sense and aren't relevant to the actual discussion, though they're more or less on topic. Is...
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I hate to sound like a groupie or something, but I love your site, Dave, and I'd love to be able to include a little box somewhere on my own site that featured your latest entries! Is this doable, and...
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