Just few days have passed & WordPress developers have been forced to release a maintenance version for WordPress 2.9. The main issue is that current WordPress 2.9 is triggering a bug in certain versions of PHP’s curl extension & for that pingback & scheduled posts are not working properly in different hosting environment. Besides, they have fixed 14 tickets in this maintenance upgrade. [...]
You can not only choose from predefined image set, but also you can upload your own customize image to set as Twitter background. This option has been there in Twitter for a long time. So actually if you are new to Twitter or looking to customize your Twitter account for branding, here is how you can do it. [...]
At first I thought I won’t mention it as existing WordPress users can see the upgrade notification from their dashboard. But still there are so many bloggers who are interested about WordPress & still don’t use it. So just to let you know WordPress 2.9 is out & I have upgraded to it without any difficulty. [...]
I don’t know how many of you noticed it. Google has recently introduced its own url-shortening service. But it is not a standalone service right now. You can use it only from Google Toolbar & more importantly we, bloggers can use it in FeedBurner service. So I was checking what functionality has been added to my FeedBurner account. And I just saw Google has added option to socialize your feed automatically with Twitter with the new url shortening service. From your FeedBurner dashboard go to your feed & then click “Publicize” tab. There you will find “Socialize” option. Add your Twitter account there giving your Twitter usename & password. Change options to set what part of your feed that you want to show in your Twitter upadates like blog post title only, post body only or both title and post body. [...]
Yeah! That’s true. You can now call .tk a real free top level domain as it has started giving away free dns service. The domain forwarding service that redirects .tk url to your current sub-domain is still there. But it’s bad for SEO. But recently they have added free dns service option to it. That means if you want you can use your existing Name Servers to point them to your domain or you can use free dns service from Dot TK to point your own ip address to your new .tk domain. [...]
No doubt, when you search for copied content of your blog you usually use CopyScape. They are the leader in checking plagiarism after all. But using their free search I usually get some false results & for unlimited searches you need to purchase their premium account. So it is not bad to look for one or two free CopyScape alternatives that can search for stolen contents from your blog all over the web. [...]
About 10 days ago, Google published a post about comment spam on their WebmasterCentral blog. They have warned that they have the means for understanding the link graph & they can determine and tackle comment spam links using algorithmic methods. They can even determine the fine-line spams that some webmasters deploy like instead of blunt spam they will say “great site!” as a comment with a keyword as their name. So in best case, you will receive a little or no SEO value at all for posting meaningless comments in other websites & blogs. [...]
Just a minute ! If I were a professional blogger, then only you could have said it to be unprofessional. But I am just a passionate blogger, not a pro one. [...]