- 150+ RSS Resources – Traffick did well more than one-up me.
- Why You Must be the First, in Google’s Search Results at Least! – The clickthrough rate varies that much…just between the first two spots in he results? Scary.
- Skribit – Find Out What Your Readers Want You to Write About
- Sun Changes Its Mind, MySQL Tools to Remain Open Source
- Toolbox CSS – “a collection of common styles that can be useful on any web project.” Some of the suggested classes are worth defining, though I think the author could have done a little more.
- To Cache or Not to Cache?
- 5 reasons I won’t be getting on the open id train – I’m not really a fan of OpenID either. The solution to having too many accounts? Let your browser remember passwords for you. Share a computer with other people? Make sure you’re making use of your OS’s user account features.
- Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done – Lifehacker presents a post on “Getting Blogging Done.” I agree that #9 is very useful. I use the Firefox extension, er, extensively. The Copy Link Text extension makes it really easy to put BlogBuzz together.
- Now More Than Ever: 50 More Excellent Blog Designs – Another Smashing collection of interesting blog designs.
BlogBuzz May 10, 2008
May 10, 2008 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz No CommentsThe Secret to Getting Traffic: Link
May 9Forget all about PageRank. Fill your posts with links to related posts, on your blog, and more importantly, on other blogs. Don’t hoard PageRank, and try to keep visitors on your site. Send them to other sites, and hope they come back. If you…
When Should You Add Ads?
May 7Right from the start. If you have ads on your site from the beginning, your readers aren’t going to complain when you add them in. (Though my advice to the whiners would be to read the article in their RSS aggregator.) Unfortunately, when you’re…
Elements of Design
May 6Most design galleries showcase interesting/well-designed/etc web designs. Elements of Design is not like them. Brought to you by the Smiley Cat Web Design Blog, Elements of Design focuses on individual elements of designs. Some examples include: Search boxes Comments and Comment Forms Pull Quotes…
Traffic Sources: Where Are Your Visitors Coming From?
May 5Check your blog’s statistics. Where are your visitors coming from? Are they mainly typing-in your blog’s URL, coming from search engine results pages (SERPs), or are they being referred to you from other sites? Google Analytics puts an overview of this information on their…
Web Resources Depot Admin Template
May 4Web Resources Depot has released a free Admin Template for use in web apps. It’s a three-column design with a row of tabs, for navigation, along the top. With some modifications, it would work well for a web application, if you were developing one.…
BlogBuzz May 3, 2008
May 3WordPress Theme of the Month: Simple
May 2It’s May 2008, and this month’s featured WordPress theme is Simple. A live demo is available.
30 RSS Resources For the Feed-Addicted Blogger
May 1Today is RSS Awareness Day (an idea of Daniel Scocco’s). The goal is to spread RSS, teaching non-bloggers about the technology, and showing them how it could benefit them. You can do this however you want. Simply post this video, or go beyond that.…