- LifeDev writes a post titled Think for Yourself, And the World Will Follow – it’s written about business ideas but I think could be applied pretty well to blogging too – originality counts for a lot.
- ShoeMoney shares his favorite WordPress Tricks and Plugins – two plugins I hadn’t seen before that look useful are Brians Threaded Comments and PodPress.
- Blog Bloke shares How he got Custom Domains to work with New Blogger – has anyone else tried it yet?
- Neil Patel talks sense (in my opinion) with his post Why too many little icons can easily distract your visitors.
- John Chow writes a post about post length and post frequency
- Alister writes a reflection on his last month of blogging in a post How to grow your blog by over 2000 in one month
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I really enjoyed reading the article by Alister, especially the part about the domain name, I think is very important.
I’m glad you included the link on Blogger Custom Domains. I noticed a lot of people in the google groups help forum having difficulties. I’ve been looking forward to getting a custom name. Now I might brave it!
Hi Darrin, I love your these speedlinking articles! They are very motivating! Can you try and post some success stories as well, maybe where bloggers or marketers talk actual dollar figures. Just a thought.
We were able to get it working on our site. The domain names are through GoDaddy and the blog is obviously through Blogger.
Pretty slick really. Nice to see blogger improving their product.
Darren and friends,
I immediately “upgraded” an old blogger account to the custom domain option as soon as they announced it… for testing mainly.
Sure it’s a Google “hegemony” of sorts, but I really like the simple integration of Blogger with Picasa2 for photos. I tested it on my blogger-hosted family blog (which is a nothing site, really!) at http://www.cameron.org.au.
Couldn’t be easier to handle photo posting than those two together. Certainly the cusom domains thing is simple. I also use gMail for my cameron.org.au email accounts (their Google Apps for Your Domain thing)… and it works perfectly.
Google have finally done something very right here, except you can’t remove the top Google bar from the blogger sites, at least not straightforwardly… maybe by CSS you can, if that’s not breaking their TOS…??
– Alister
Yes Darren,
I have setup a personal blog (no content yet) on Google/Blogspot with custom domain.
Its so easy.
http://blog.alpesh.id.au
Cheers!
Alpesh