Topic: feed
4 things that annoy me as a blogger
December 24, 2008 by evl
Rss feeds
I hate it when people use my rss feed. Seriously, you want to read my stuff then come to my site. I cant stand it when sites and bloggers tell how many Rss subscribers they have. I bet you not even 1% of people that are subscribed to a site actually come and visit the site.
Although I hate it when people read my rss feed on a reader I still like reading other sites on readers. I know, my right to be annoying.
Leaving url in comment
Sometimes I am amazed at people. The comment section clearly states url. Now that means you dont have to repeat your url in the actual comment, it saves you time and effort. But no, you get these annoying people that fill in a comment and then put their urls under what they've written. Maybe someone should make a comment how-to to explain how the thing works.
Telling people where you've not been before
I have done exactly this for some time until I realized how stupid I must of sound to those that really has been there and know what they are talking about. Although I now have the experience, i also blogged about how to make money before I actually made money.
its like fooling people into believing you make money to make money from them.
Link exchange
I get these really annoying emails asking for link exchange. Here's a tip. Link your one page to your other page. There you have a link. Happy now?
Marthinus van Schalkwyk calls George bush natural disaster
December 15, 2008 by evl
Wel l that is the way I'd would of said it at least. Its not far from the truth, our Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has basically said that George Bush is a failure.
"Relative to his prehistoric predecessor, it is something which we should celebrate,"
"Goodbye, George!"
Not only did George Bush mess up a entire country, he basically messed up a whole lot of countries. Only going after those with oil to feed the American lust of oil.
Hey old Bush, do you think Mugabe has weapons of mass destruction? What's that? No oil? Oh ok. I guess they have a free and fair country after all.
I love tiny houses
December 2, 2008 by evl
These small houses would make a great deal for South Africa, here property is expensive and houses are impossible to get if you dont make enough money to feed a farm.
There is a story behind these small houses that you can read at tinyhousedesign. There is even a yahoo group about small houses called the Tiny House Society. This should be the way of the future. I like these houses.
Taking over a niche starts with the longtail
October 28, 2008 by evl
Niche blogging is not always easy especially if you have a lot of competition. But keeping a close eye over your search results, the results people find your site for is the first step in getting your blog into the short tail as they call it.
First when search engines scan your site and you start your blog out you will not rate for the wanted keywords and this is where most people starting using the meta tags and things like that. I dont have any meta tags on this site and the reason for that is simple, associating your site with keywords will result in your site being limited to those keywords and restrict growth.
I am sure by now you might think i am just writing a bunch of nonsense but I have have the facts to prove it. It really is that simple. So you might get one visitor right, but you have to watch and learn from how you got that one visitor and once you analyze your keyword the site was found for you can see where and how to go further.
I will blog about this topic a bit later. Please join the feed for updates.
Changing the course of this blog
October 28, 2008 by evl
I also thought about blogging about online tips and such, but I have never wanted to blog about these things until I was at a place where I could give prove, many people still dont believe that you can make a living by blogging but it is possible. So i would like to change the focus from general stuff to blogging, wordpress and more online things. I know I have blogged about this earlier as well but did not exactly know how to change the course of this blog in a quick way.
Taking over more than one niche was my goal but you have to blog about what you want and what you like because if you dont you will lose focus and your blog will become another statistic.
Anyway the point is I can now blog about the things I love, which is blogging tips , Making a living on the internet and online marketing. Also dont forgot those Worpdress which has become my cms of choice for working with any site.
Please join my rss feed. ( Oh by the way wprecipes did a post about how to put your "subscribe" text at end of every post, you can read it here.
I am going to put that on a bit later but adding rss to every page is the first step to getting those readers to subscribe.
How to add advertising to specific categories in Wordpress
October 27, 2008 by evl
As promised I said I will be starting my Wordpress section please join the feed here:-
Wordpress
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68 Twitter tools to satisfy your twitter addiction
October 26, 2008 by evl
I like twitter. So, i decided to do a post about twitter. Here it is :) Twitter tools for Firefox Twitterfox - Twitter app for firefox, sits in the bottom. Twittermore - Firefox extension that lets you post longer than 140 characters Twitterbar - Post directly to twitter from your address bar Twitbin - Twitter communication from firefox. Twitkit - A entire sidebar dedicated to Twitter. (has other features as well) Dashblog - Collect media and post it to twitter / blog TwittyTunes - Post your currently playing songs to twitter with one click Tinyurl Creator - Shrink urls quickly for twitter BlogRovr - Twit about the site you are on Feedly - Rss reader integrated with twitter as well Yoono - socialize your Firefox includes twitter tools PingFire - post to ping.fm (thereby updating twitter) Twitter tools for Mac Twitterrific -Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.
Exploring sea food.
October 20, 2008 by evl
When you are in a place where you need food like food shortages or some situation where you dont have food and you are close to the sea you have a entire meal waiting for you.
There are thousands of things to eat in the sea and even so right on the beach.