Posts Tagged ‘Sites’

Cape Town in the News 28 August 2008


What if your blog becomes to big?

Dont for one moment think its not possible. By having to many categories and sections about varies topics you cant take over search engines for all topics. So what can you possibly do to get more search engine hits for the variety of topic instead of letting Google pick a keyword for your site and [...]

WP-Cumulus tag flash plugin for Wordpress

This plugin looks amazing. You can even customize the colour, the width and the length of how it looks.
This plugin rotates your tags at the speed you set it.
As the plugin page quotes
WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works [...]

Hitmelater Send your emails back to yourself later, automatically

Hitmelater is a new site where if you are reading your emails and you want to get back to one later you just forward the email to @hitmelater.com
As they explain on the site:
Snooze your email.
Just forward any email to 24@hitmelater.com and we’ll resend it to you 24 hours later. [...]

Duke Nukem finally comes back. - Gaming -

Its been almost 11 years since I’ve last played Duke Nukem. Actually that was the first game I have ever played that was more than just blocks, circles and a bunch of other things that made you think you are playing a real game. Back then it was the best game ever, well for that [...]

Buddypress looks promising

Buddypress is a new Wordpress Mu social networking software based on wordpress and wordrpess mu, this seems to be the ultimate social networking software.
Not released yet, Buddypress will enable you to have:
 

Extended Profiles »
Personal Blog »
Private Messaging »
Friends »

Groups »
The Wire »
Albums »
Status Updates »

A quote from the official site
The idea of BuddyPress [...]

Do you give search engines time to scan your content?

Sometimes we think if we blog a few 100 posts in a row that traffic will increase immediately. While that is true in a sense it doe snot always apply.
Most search engines scan the homepage of most blogs daily but it does not scan the rest of the site and if your site goes [...]

The blog startup resource list.


Increase your earnings online by not making your title linkable

I dont know how often you browse but I browse every day all day.
One of the trends I have now noticed people do is to make their Header or Site name not clickable. Especially on Stumbleupon.
Now my explanation why they do that is to increase their earnings, especially photo and picture sites. They [...]

Wood working wonder. Replica of Noah’s ark.

A replica of Noah’s ark was opened this weekend at the Netherlands. The replica was built to scale yet is about half the size than the original.
I love wooden boats and this one is massive. But I think all the animals were babies when they got on the ark. It would of saved a [...]

Fromtheold.com changes.

We cleaned up the site today, took off the clutter and made the site faster.
There is also a 300×250 ad on the right hand side as you can see.  We hope to give readers a better expierence while reading the blog. There will also be more photos of South Africa and we will be blogging [...]

Without traffic there is no making money on the internet.

If you want advertisers for your site you must have traffic. Traffic is what drives the internet, yes traffic is the internet but what makes money is traffic, not a great design or how many people link to you. You can have a PR7 but if you dont have traffic its pretty much useless.
The first [...]

Cape Town News Links of 8 August 2008


Social Network: Socialgo

 
Create your own Facebook or whatever social network you want. Socialgo is quite customizable.
They have everything from profiles to a messaging system, video chat, events and some other stuff.
You and your mates can create your own yourspace and truly call it your own social network or home on the internet, if you dont have a [...]

Learn from Amatomu’s traffic. Weekend blog traffic sucks.

Does your weekend traffic suck? Do you barely get any visitors? Well dont worry this is normal for weekends. When I first started blogging i though my site died on the weekend. But when I checked again the following monday I noticed that its a weekend thing.
Here you can see on Amatomu trends that [...]

How to start a blog and get into blogging.

To start a blog you need money. Hosting costs money, a domain costs money and you probably want to have a nice professional designed theme.
That is the basic things needed to start a blog:
A domain
A domain name (obviously a domain is the domain name but I want to seperate looking for the domain name and [...]

The only way to succeed in blogging is to keep on blogging

When browsing through the thousands of make money sites invading the internet i often stumble upon a site that tells you how to succeed and have a successful money making blog. The thing that gets me is that the average blog only lasts 3 months. Most of these that tell you how to succeed is [...]

Add some pictures to your posts for more rss activity on your blog

I read a lot of sites and blogs by using rss feeds. But sometimes when I am lazy iust skip the feed if it only has long text written with nothing to stimulate my eyes. Put some colour in your posts, even if it has nothing to do with the post itself.
You dont have [...]

Entrecard launches a toolbar

I dont use Entrecard anymore but for a site that starts entrecard is still a great tool. Entrecard is a place where you drop cards on other people’s blogs to kind of show them that you were there. There is a entire community around this thing and it does work and bring traffic.
Check out the [...]

Cape Town News Links of 4 August 2008