Tag: Blogging
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Live reporting of the Blogging for business event?
The Blogging for Business event is taking place in the National Software Centre tomorrow evening from 6pm as previously reported. However, I forgot to mention that there is free wifi in the National Software Centre so there is an opportunity there for any intrepid bloggers to blog the event live as it is happenning! We…
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Changing the header image in Kubrick
I changed the header image on this site recently. I had been using the default blue image which ships with Kubrick (the default theme which ships with WordPress 1.5). I am not a graphic designer and I don’t have graphic design tools at my disposal so I needed a method of doing this which was…
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Boost Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) using Permalinks
Permalinks are a feature of most blogging applications – they are are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, categories and other lists of weblog postings. For instance, the Permalink for the listing of all the posts I have written in the Search Engine Optimisation category is: tomrafteryit.net/category/search-engine-optimisation/ In WordPress, you can control how…
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Logged in as . Logout and anonymous comments
I noticed recently that people commenting on this site were not leaving their names. That is not so unusual except that there were so many anonymous comments. I decided to look into it to see if I could see why. I am always logged into my blog admin site so when I browse to a…
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WordPress Categories, Technorati Tags and Search Engine Optimisation
Technorati is a search engine which automatically receives a notification from weblogs as soon as they are updated. Technorati Tags are a way of classifying blog posts – you can add tags to your blog posts by adding a rel=”tag” to tag links in your posts – however this method is cumbersome and prone to…
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Effectively marketing business blogs
You can significantly mitigate the costs of marketing your blog with some careful (ethical) SEO (search engine optimisation) tactics. Primary among these is to have a blog which is web standards compliant. Search engines love standards compliance – to this end, WordPress is a great blogging tool as it is standards complaint out-of-the-box. Having said…
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Blogs used to infect PCs with spyware and malware
I note a story on the BBC Technology site which says Spyware and Malware authors have copped on to the popularity of blogs and are now using them as vectors to host spyware and malware to infect people lured to the blog. I’m surprised it took so long for them to come up with this.…
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Blocking trackback spam using .htaccess
This morning I received a trackback spam. It pointed at a rubbish domain – ohuudfghj.com, and came from ip address 172.164.210.50 using User Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90). I took a look at Spamhuntress’ site and sure enough she has a post warning that a trackback spam run is about…