Archive for April, 2008

Theme Lab - Excellent Wordpress Themes

If you are looking for a good theme for your blog, then I recommend you to visit this web site:http://www.themelab.com/. These guys are generously offering free high-quality Wordpress themes. There are currently 48 themes available for free download. You can also find some useful Wordpress tutorials on this website.

Google Webmaster Tools - Part One

Google Webmaster Tools is collection of useful tools for every webmaster. If you have a Gmail account go to http://www.google.com/webmastertools. and login with your user name (email address on Gmail) and password. If you don’t have Gmail account, you sholuld create one. You use same account to login to other Google’s services like AdSense, […]

Top Ten SEO Factors

Today I found interesting article about top ten SEO factors. SEO is acronim for “Search Engine Optimization”. In order to have good ranking on search engines your blog should be properly optimized. This article is written by Scott Hendison, a search marketing expert. Article is easy to read, written for beginners, so if you are […]

Blog Metrics

The common way to measure success of some website is to measure number of visitors, unique visitors, page views…But, blog is different kind of website. Blog visitors usually don’t open other pages, latest posts are presented on the front page, so it doesn’t make much sense to measure page views. Many frequent blog […]

21 tactics to increase blog traffic

“21 tactics to increase blog traffic” is an interesting article published on SEOmoz.org blog by one of the leading experts in search engine optimisation Rand Fishkin:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic

Pingbacks

Pingbacks are advanced version of trackbacks. In this case, your blog is automatically notified when someone links to post in your blog. As a result a link to a blog witch linked to your blog is presented in comments section of linked post. You can publish pingback, or not, decision is yours.
You can find […]

Trackback

Trackbakcs are important in promoting your blog. Trackback allows you to notify other blooger that you wrote a post related to post published on his blog.
Here is explanation of trackback taken from official Wordpress website:

Blog and blogging - basic terms

If you want to make your blog, then you probably already know what blog is: a website that contains list of articles, ordered by date of publishing (newest are on the top of the page). Blog is written by blogger, a common verb for writing blog is “blogging”. In order to publish blog you need […]

Blog search engines

Blogs are indexed by search engines like any other web site, but there are also search engines on the web that are specialized for searching blogs. Here is the list of blog search engines:
Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google’s Blog Search. Users can find the latest blog postings and popular blogs, and can search for images, video […]

Finding good web hosting provider for your blog

There are literally thousands of web hosting companies  on the web.
When choosing web hosting provider for your blog the least important things are disk space and bandwidth. You don’t need a lot of space for blog, and most providers are offering disk space and bandwidth that are far more than you need for a […]