I am one of the many people who browse the net with images disabled. I do this to reduce bandwidth usage.

Today I came across a site that I liked and wanted to subscribe to it’s feed. But could not as the site was using FeedBurner counter and did not load as I had disabled images.

Just think if this happens to your blog. You will be losing a potential subscriber. The way around this is to put a text link to your feed.

We do not want to lose any readers. Do we?

Do you want to track your Google Search Results Rankings? Sitening has a great tool that lets you track keywords daily, weekly or monthly. The tool is free but requires registration and needs the Google API.

Continue reading ‘Search Engine Optimization Tools’

What do you do when you want to test WordPress Themes and Plugins before activating them on your blog? Do you test them online and waste bandwidth? Well, there is a better way. With EasyPHP you can test WordPress Themes and Plugins offline. EasyPHP is a program that allows to easily install Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Continue reading ‘How to setup WordPress in EasyPHP’

After a lot of requests from readers, I decided to put my previous theme called TechnoBlue for download. It is a 3 column K2 Mod for WordPress.

Continue reading ‘TechnoBlue Released’

Darren has a good post on how to use Polls effectively on a blog. He explains by giving nine tips on how he uses polls on his blog, namely

1. Keep Polls Relevant
2. Don’t use Polls just for the sake of it
3. Position them Prominently
4. Think ahead about options you give
5. Beware of inactive polls
6. Announce new polls
7. Provide a medium for Discussing the Poll
8. Write a ‘results’ post
9. Don’t let the poll go on too long

Wordpress has released the latest stable version of 2.0 Series, 2.0.3, and is ready for download. This version is a bug fix and provides security and other small performance enhancements.

Via WordPress Development Blog

Michael Heilemann recently posted on Flickr these screenshots of the future navigation system of K2.

Continue reading ‘Future of K2′

Yaro has a good post on how to announce a blog for brand new bloggers. His advices are solid and I recommend you to read it if you are new to blogging.

Continue reading ‘How to boost a new blogs traffic’

Recently I have been getting spam comments on my blog linking to their blog feed. Looks like spammers are becoming more clever everyday.

Continue reading ‘Spamming to increase your RSS Subscribers’

I decided to switch to partial feeds for some time as I have been experiencing Content Theft. Some bloggers have been Reblogging my blogs content completely on their blogs. And I believe they are doing it from my blogs feed.

Though switching to partial feeds will not stop them completely, it will…partially. Please do not post my articles completely on your blog. Just post an excerpt and link to the article.

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