YPN acknowledge Some Problems with Performance
Some YPN publishers are talking in forums that YPN’s performance has been pretty low over the last few days. YahooSarah (Yahoo’s rep at Digital Point) has responded in this thread by acknowledging the problems and writing: ‘Hi everyone, I received more information this morning, so I hope I can provide ...more
Yahoo Publishing Network
BlogBurst – Should You let them Syndicate your Content?
I’m seeing a bit of buzz around today about BlogBurst, a service that allows bloggers to submit their feeds to top tier news outlets (like Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle) for republication/syndication. To use it you need to publish full RSS feeds, not have ads in your ...more
Pro Blogging News
Qumana – First Impression Review
Well rather than procrastinating I thought I’d download Qumana straight away and am writing this post from it as a first impression review. Downloading was simple (is it ever not on a Mac?) with the file only 8.7MB. Installation was a breeze as was configuring Qumana to blog to ProBlogger. ...more
General
Qumana Releases Version 3.0 Beta
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a few days but keep getting distracted but the desktop blog editor Qumana has been released in a version 3 beta. The good thing from my perspective is that version 3 is able to be used with Macs (something many other similar tools ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Scannable Content
Make Posts Scannable – One of lessons that I would advise all bloggers to get their minds about is that in addition to fact that the average web user doesn’t usually stay long on a web page – they also don’t read much of it As a result, scannable content ...more
Writing Content
Blog Format Discussion
There has been a bit of talk in the last few days about the need for new ways of formatting blogs. Michael Parekh talks On Blogs Stuck in a Rut: ‘I’ve long wondered how great it would be if my current blogging platform Typepad (a part of Six Apart) or ...more
Blog Design
Favicon Maker
If you’re looking to put a favicon (one of those little pictures that sites next to a URL in your browser) on your blog but don’t know how to make one you might like to play with the Favicon from Pics tool. All you do is enter a picture and ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Google Page Rank Update Underway
Tim just alerted me to the fact that it seems Google are doing one of it’s periodic Page Rank Updates. These updates take a little while to show up on all data-centers around the world so it could take a day or two to shakedown – but you can read ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Using Titles Effectively on Blogs
My Mum drilled into me at a young age that first impressions are important. Outside of the design of your blog (that’s a whole other post) perhaps the best way of creating that impression is though your post’s title. Titles are so important on many fronts – including: Grabbing Attention ...more
Writing Content