Posts Tagged ‘blog’

Mobile Blogging on the move with a Blackberry or Iphone app for wordpress

Sometimes it can be a pain to get the time to submit to your blog, as you may have noticed I haven’t updated this blog for a couple of weeks as I have been quite busy so I apologise for that one.

Anyway I thought I would have a Google to see if there was anything that I could use for mobile blogging during those busy times and after a search I found a fantastic app for my Blackberry Bold 9000 that allows me to write my articles on the move, I don’t need a pc or laptop at all so this for me is fantastic indeed. I only know of the WordPress app for mobiles so sorry to those who use any other format of blogging like drupal or Blogger but I will have a proper look in the future and update you if I find any other app so you can also blog on the move.

The wordpress app is very small and you will hardly notice that it is on your mobile phone at all, and the best of all is that is free to download and use and I have yet to find a fault with it at all, in-fact this article was written with my Blackberry while on a lunch break so you can see its very easy. On the Blackberry wordpress app you can accept your blog comments as well as delete the spam, edit comments or anything that you can do with a laptop just on a smaller screen and the Iphone app seems to do just the same, although I haven’t tested the Iphone version but I couldn’t see it being to much different from the blackberry app at all.

You can download the wordpress app for your blackberry or iphones on the links below:

http://blackberry.wordpress.org/

http://iphone.wordpress.org/

Please do comment and let me know how you get on with it!

How to gain traffic to your blog

The number one goal for a blogger is for people to actually read there blog. Without guests they have no way of gaining traffic to there new blog. Although there are many ways to gain traffic to your blog, there are a few ways that stand out from the rest.

Here are some tips to gain traffic to your blog:

1. SEO Optimize your blog – SEO Optimizing means setting your blog to use keyword friendly URL’s, depending on your blogging software you can set your blog to use search engine friendly URL’s. If that is not an option, you should look for a program modification that will perform this task. Remember to target keywords in your post names, so that you can gain traffic from google, when people search for those keywords.

2. Build Links – This also goes with tip #1 because when you build links it can also help you rank higher in the search engines for your targeted keyword. A few ways to build links are: (a) Signature Links – Links on different forums, are great because it gives you a link on every post that person makes (b) Exchange Links – Find alike blog’s and build traffic together, it’s a great way to become friends with the competition.

3. Social Bookmarking – Did you know that when you make a tweet on twitter, it is reverberated by tons of sites, which display your tweets as while? Even Google actually picks up your tweets. Tweeting your URL’s can provide a mass traffic surge, so remember to tweet your URL’s. Another “bookmarking” tool is to “digg” your posts; this will help you get targeted people from Digg. Ask your friends to digg your posts as while, that way you can get a higher digg ranking.

4. Article Directories – Submit articles, to different Article Directories, when people like your writing, they may take a visit to your blog because they want to learn more. This may gain you return visitors who want to read your great writings.

5. Many More Ways – All of the ways and tips I have given you are just a start to gaining traffic to your blog, the truth is there are a lot more ways of building traffic, but you need to discover the best way, because every type of site is different, so every way to build traffic is different to.

I hope this article helps gain traffic to your blog.

So you want backlinks and to be indexed in less than 24 hours

Some of you may remember my article regarding getting indexed within 24hours using a hand full of websites while getting a few back links at the same time. I still find what I wrote quite usefull but I have found something that completely blows my previous article out of the water.

I was checking out digitalpoint freebies section and came across a post boasting about a new SEO script that will get you indexed within 24hours while getting your new domain backlinks from websites with pagerank 6 and upwards. The post also claimed that it can get back links in the thousands all with good pagerank. I read the post a couple of times thinking it was a load of crap like most of the rubbish that gets placed on the freebie section of digital point, after all it was claiming something it could give you something for nothing…………. Indexed, backlinks that are from high pageranked websites which of course can improve your own page-rank when Google decides to update itself… Sounds to good to be true does it not?

I thought ill give this magic script ago by using a domin that I wasnt to bothered if it got dropped or not so why not?

I checked out the website and gave it a go, you simply type in your domain and make sure you have “new browser” selected and set how many pop up(new windows) you want to open at the same time. I had opted for 50 windows to open to see what it does, this gets annoying as you really do get 50 windows open up with all these websites that you have just pinged but never mind that was my choice and wont do that again. You can select less windows to open or do it manually by just clicking the links but that will take hours to do as you can get 100s of websites queing to ping your website and some of them leave a record on their website so you can get a backlink also while using the tool…………….. quite handy hey?

I must admit it took me a while to work out how the tool would force a website to make a backlink on the “pinged” website but it works the same as princiable of my last article so overall it gets a 8/10 from me. The main downside to this tool is that the websites it pings are mainly Chinese but they do have alot of websites with good pagerank and they are not adult websites or warez websites so you are pretty much safe from having bad links to your new website. The developer of the website has stated he wanted to clean up alot of the websites that the scripts uses for pinging and getting backlinks so hopefully there will be more English websites.

Anyway, I tested the script on the domain that wasnt indexed and hasn’t been in use for at least 3 months. The domain was indexed pretty much in the 24th hour which i was quite suprised about but I have yet to check out the backlinks but I will edit this post once I have done a proper check as half the decent backlink counters on the Internet have stopped working.

I would be careful using this tool if you are planning to use a domain as a new business or website as it is quite new and I myself haven’t checked out the side affects of using this script, I will be checking the back-links very closely over the next couple of weeks while also giving the domain a few more blasts.

If you looking for a quick fix to getting your website indexed and have a few backlinks then this tool is most definatly the way to go!

How to find .gov and .edu websites for backlinks

Search Engine Google, at least judging from its last update, favors .gov and .edu backlinks.  They tend to be more favourable with getting PR(pagerank) and the more  link juice flow when these types of domains are involved.

How to get these backlinks?

Stage One:

Do a Google search using these parameters –

site:.edu inurl:blog “your keyword”

site:.gov inurl:blog “your keyword”

Step 2:

Filter, Filter, Filter.  This is probably the most important step since you can collect all the links you want but if they are nofollow they will not do you much  good but add anyway hopefully you will get some traffic anyway.  The key to good “link shopping” is a well thought out, objective-based approach.

If you use firefox I would suggest using a plugin called “nodofollow” as this can save you ALOT of time looking at the source code looking for the “dofollow” tags!

For those who are years behind by not not using firefox what you need to do is find a comment posted by somebody and then rightclick, view source and you will see “rel=no follow” or “rel=dofollow” just before the name of the poster

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