Should You Allow Comments on Your Site? The Pros and Cons
Should you allow comments on your site or blog? On the one hand, you can argue that quality content will encourage quality comments; on the other, there's always someone out there with something negative to say.
Medium: An Alternative Blogging Platform From The Founders Of Twitter
Twitter's co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone launched their own blogging platform, Medium, about a year ago. The founders say that the aim is to "re-imagine" publishing, by allowing users to choose the level of collaboration they prefer. It essentially means users can post their own content, but also share them with everyone else in public collections, as similar ideas shared in such collections help deepen awareness. Think of it as Flickr Groups for blog posts.
Key Differences Between Google Adwords Tool And The Keyword Planner
The key differences between Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Keyword Planner includes a more organized workflow for researching adwords and keywords, a clearer presentation of data, quick access to some nice historical graphs, and the ability to download historical data in spreadsheet form. In this article, I'll show you each of these new or different features and how you can make use of them in your own keyword or adwords research.
How The Next Web Was Born: A Talk With Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
Part event, part website, The Next Web is among the most influential blogs and can easily be described as an online juggernaut. Founded in 2006 as a technology conference (which now runs annually), the popular TNW blog was launched in 2008. There are few overnight successes in business, but the positive reaction the then 24-year-old Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and his colleagues Patrick de Laive and Arjen Schat experienced following the first conference showed them that they had created something.
3 Ways You Can Preserve Your Online Presence While in Jail
Prisons are by no means fun places. The world in which you live narrows down to just a few small acres of barbed wire and concrete. You're isolated from those you love. Phone calls are expensive, short and monitored by those in control. There's also no internet. Horrible. This raises an interesting question. How do you keep your online presence afloat whilst you're doing time?
Roon Is A Slick, Easy-To-Use Blogging Platform You May Want to Try
While WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr dominate the blogging scene, there are a few minimalist platforms that strip down the blogging experience to focus entirely on simply sharing your writing. Roon keeps things simple, all blogs are responsive (meaning you can view blog posts on your smartphone, for example, and it adjusts to the reader's device), and couldn't be easier to use.
Turn Evernote Into A Blogging Platform With Postach.io
There is certainly no shortage of blogging platforms available to users for free. WordPress and Tumblr alone are a great way to keep a blog, but there are a few creative alternatives out there. A new blogging service Postach.io can now be added to the mix. The easy-to-use blogging platform allows users to create a blog in minutes, powered by the versatile note-taking app, Evernote.
7 Crucial Tips: How to get Your Blog Listed in Google
A wise man man once asked "if a website exists in the forest of the Internet and no one visits it, does it truly exist?". I made that up actually, but the point is solid - a website is useless if it has no traffic, and in order to get traffic you need to be listed on Google. You could argue that Google isn't the only search engine and Bing matters too, and ... but you'd be wrong. Google is the search engine that matters, and if you want to get listed you need to play by their rules. Here are 7 crucial tips to get your blog listed on Google.
They Killed Reader And iGoogle - What To Do If FeedBurner Is Next
Google is commendable for being so willing to experiment with new potential products. Where would we be if they never fooled around with, say, Gmail or AdSense? Yet it seems like for every product that succeeds, a handful of others get the axe. Most recently, Google killed Reader. What happens if they come after Feedburner next? Do you have a backup plan?
5 Ways to Blog On The Go with Android
While the blogging craze has passed us, there are still plenty of good reasons to start a blog, whether it be to keep a personal record of your life, update your family, or keep your fans informed. There are a large number of different ways for you to get started with blogging, all of which are completely free and easy to use. Best of all, you can access many of these services right from your Android device via their respective apps. Here are five of the top blogging apps you can get on Android.
Start Your Own Blog Effortlessly With Web Hosting Hub [Giveaway]
This week, I'm taking a look at Web Hosting Hub and their $5.99 per month service, which includes free domain name registration, unlimited disk space and bandwidth and a whole lot of other features you can read about here. Web Hosting Hub is one of the many recommended web hosts listed on our Best Web Hosting Services page. We're going to be giving away 10 accounts that include year's worth of free hosting plus domain name (valued at $720), so if you could use the webspace be sure to enter at the end of this article for a chance to win!
Is It Wise To Buy Blog Or Forum Comments From Freelancers?
Last year, I wrote about identifying fake reviews. In the overall discussion about purchasing site activity (whether it be comments, posts, reviews, or whatever else you offer), it’s safe to assume that buying comments is pretty much the same thing as buying user reviews. There’s a lot of overlap between the two and they pretty much achieve the same purposes. But there are also a few subtle differences.
Keeeb - A Unique Alternative To The Traditional Blogging Platform
We recently introduced you to a variety of ways to curate your way to a significant Internet following, and were disappointed to find out that Clipboard, one of the recommended services, has been acquired and is shutting down at the end of June. If you've found yourself looking for a new place to take your Internet curation needs, one alternative worth considering is Keeeb.
Game Of Thrones Meets Tumblr: 12 Must-Follow Blogs
The sheer amount of content on Tumblr makes it a joy to browse, though sometimes you really do have to filter through a lot of repetitive content to get to the good stuff. For that reason, we’ve put together lists of recommended Tumblr blogs that we think you should be following. This week we’re taking a stab at all things Game of Thrones on Tumblr.
What Is Lifelogging And Why Should You Do It?
Between Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and more, we already document and share quite a lot about our daily lives, without really thinking about it. They are lifelogs of sorts, but without any sort of structure or consistency to them. While some might not agree, the very act of documenting all of this information makes for a fascinating record of your own life.
Posterous Might Be Gone But Here Are 6 Alternatives To Replace It
We all knew it was coming. Back in February Twitter announced that it would be shutting down Posterous by the end of April. Some bloggers saw it coming from the day that Twitter acquired the popular blogging platform. With that day finally here, if you’re still looking for an alternative to meet your blogging and automated sharing needs, we’ve come up with a list of 6 viable alternatives.
Blogger To WordPress, WordPress To Blogger - Switching Blogs Tested
After a rather thorough and taxing look at both Blogger and WordPress.com it's time to evaluate the possibility that some of you might want to switch from one service or the other. That or you floated in on a wave of search traffic, looking at whether this is possible. It's a rather simple operation, but one that requires a bit of testing to see how your content will look on a different platform.