Posts tagged ‘Blogging’
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November 6th
25Your homepage: your blogs showcase
Excerpt: When you get to a blog you've never visited before, through a search, a listing on a social network site or a link on another blog, what kind of page do you land up on? Usually, it'll be an article page. You'll read the article, and decide, based on that article and the other info and look & feel of…
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October 9th
116 Serious Questions for Serious Bloggers
Excerpt: While it's a hobby for a lot of people, for more and more people, blogging is serious business too. Are you serious about your blog(s) and blogging? Maybe you're even making a good income out of it? If so, you'd better make sure you can answer yes to all of the following questions: 1. Do you know…
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September 17th
9Back in business!
Excerpt: So, I'm back! After twelve days of honeymoon on lovely lovely Rhodes, of which a couple of pics can be found on my Flickr, I've decided that yes, I need a better camera. If any of you have good advice on what I should buy as my first SLR, let me know. If you want to send me one, even better! But any…
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July 6th
14Several plugin updates and a new plugin!
Excerpt: I've had a good day of coding, and updated several plugins today, all for different reasons explained below, and also written a new one, email commenters. Of course I used this chance to update all links in these plugins and in these plugins pages on WordPress.org. Check out what I did today: Soc…
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June 9th
68Meet Yoast!
Excerpt: After a couple of years on joostdevalk.nl, I've decided it was time to do a couple of things at the same time: redesign to a more professional look move to a .com domain and US based hosting 301 redirect the entire old domain to that new domain Now those of you who are unlucky enough to…
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January 31st
50Sociable WordPress plugin take-over
Excerpt: Several people have noticed, most notably Andy Beard, that the Sociable WordPress plugin is, next to be being a cool plugin, kind of a dead project. I had modified it quite a bit for Mel's blog, and my own later on, to include Sphinn, Facebook, Mixx, Google Bookmarks, Live and Twitter (the latter i…
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January 11th
14Technorati Ping Bookmarklet
Excerpt: Sometimes I don't want to run my growing set of tools to ping Technorati, but simply want to ping one or a few posts, without having to go to the manual ping form. So I've created a small simple bookmarklet which let's you ping the current page: [code lang="js"] javascript:(function(){var%20r=es…
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January 11th
20Linking out? Make sure people notice!
Excerpt: It happens to me more then a few times a day at the moment, which is quite a luxurious position I guess, that I see new unique referrers in my statistics. These are new sites linking to me. But sometimes they're not... Sometimes, it's a post that has been there for 3-4 weeks, or even more, on a low …
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December 8th
1Blogging at Google Tutor
Excerpt: I've started guest blogging over at Google Tutor this month, and I've already written two posts, and one tool: Post: New Tool - Simply Advanced Google Search! Post: Google Chart API Tool: Simply Advanced Google Search I hope you enjoy them (too)!…
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December 5th
7Blog Tag: When I'm not doing SEO...
Excerpt: So Barry tagged me in this new meme "When I'm not doing SEO...", which was started by Shimon Sandler, in which I should tell what I do when I'm not doing SEO... Now that's a hard one. I code a lot, and work on css3.info, but I guess that doesn't count. A lot of my time goes into my own company, A…
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November 26th
0More SEO Blog tips
Excerpt: Aaron & Giovanna have a nice write-up about SEO tips for your blog today, which is a whole lot broader then my WordPress SEO guide: The blogger's guide to SEO. Check it out! (And while you're at it, digg it!)…
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May 23rd
4Technorati redesign
Excerpt: Dave Sifry posted on the Technorati blog that Technorati has updated it's design. And I actually really like it! There's one thing though... My colleague Roy pointed at the source code, especially the tag cloud... Come on guys, you can do better than that!…
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May 2nd
4Moved the blog to the homepage
Excerpt: Since moving the seo blog to the main URL worked so well on css3.info, (it came out of the last PR update as a PR7 and has had more search referrers since), I decided to do the same here. Let me know if you find any errors, but I think it all went smoothly. All old posts are 301 redirected of course…
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April 16th
2Why I blog
Excerpt: Yet another blog meme has been going on all over the web, and I was guessing it was going to be my turn sometimes in the near future. Steven Bradley (aka vangogh) tagged me this time. You might remember the previous "5 things you don't know about me" blog meme, this is sort of the same, yet I have t…
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April 10th
27Help me brand this blog!
Excerpt: This blog always goes by the name "Joost de Valk - SEO & webdesign blog", which kinda sucks of course... Why does it suck? Well: it's not brandable at all, and part of building a blog is building a brand. The "brand" in it right now is my name, which I don't mind of course, but I'd like to brand…
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February 26th
5Short note: switched to full feeds
Excerpt: I've switched to full feeds instead of crippled ones, let me know if you like it!…
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January 26th
1Guest post at SEOEgghead.com
Excerpt: I did a guest post over at my SEOEgghead.com asking for noindex, follow for RSS feeds. Go check it out!…
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January 25th
7WebmasterRadio and iTunes
Excerpt: I absolutely love WebmasterRadio, there's one thing about them that I hate though... I can never seem to find the iTunes links on there... So here's the list of my favourite shows, with iTunes subscribe links, for future reference: Domain Masters Good Karma Net Income Daily SearchCast Ru…
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January 23rd
4As usual, Technorati walks ahead of the pack
Excerpt: They "invented" blogsearch, and did a LOT for the webdevelopment and blogging community. Now Technorati, it turns out, is working on the microformats search I asked for only two articles ago (it was there before that, I just didn't know about it)... Check it out in Technorati's Kitchen.…
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October 25th
19rules, I hope I'm in :)
Excerpt: 9rules this morning, I hope I'm in, keeping my fingers crossed...…
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October 24th
3Launching a new blog? Get it right in one turn
Excerpt: My friends over at Aviva Directory have written another excellent piece of content: a list of 21 tips to launch your blog. Now I'm not saying I'm doing it all right, but I should be, and so should you. The list they made consists of 6 parts: The First Impression RSS & Subscriptions Social Book…
