The Age of Invasion: Google’s Watching You

2010 February 9

cats eyesOne can be stalked by opportunistic voyeurs and internet marketers on twitter and other social media and social networking sites,  where I have been compelled to spend time every day deleting the armies of bots that were auto-added as my “followers” overnight. That’s not to mention the time I spend deleting invitations to join the bot army generating brigade and even make money from tweeting. read more…

Blogger: Pages in and FTP access out

2010 February 9
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My blogging friend Brad brought the fact that Blogger had finally introduced static pages to my attention in his post Pages Finally Arrive To Blogger. When I had the time I checked out the announcement of Pages and the pages widget: read more…

tweetmeme button shortcode for wordpress.com

2010 February 6
by timethief
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In a nutshell TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular by categorizing them into Categories, Subcategories and Channels.  Using the TweetMeme Button you can discover new content and tweet about it. read more…

Protecting your images online from theft

2010 February 6
The Perfect Watermark
Image by Jayel Aheram via Flickr

Watermarking any images you place on your blog or website is a practice used in addition to posting a copyright notice or license, and both are used to deter image theft. I have previously reviewed several free watermark generators available online that can be used to display copyright on your images either one at a time or in bulk, prior to uploading them to your blog. This article provides a link to another approach to deterring online image theft that you may wish to consider using. read more…

Changing fonts in wordpress.com blogs

2010 February 4
by timethief

fontsYou may not like the fonts in your wordpress.com theme but it’s important to know that regardless of which fonts you may wish to choose to jazz up your blog with your browser and your visitors’  browsers can only use the fonts installed in the same computer. Obviously not every visitor to your blog will have the same  fonts installed in their computers, so you can immediately see that problems will arise unless you choose to use common fonts. read more…

Article Writing and Commenting Increase Backlinks to Blogs

2010 February 2

My earlier article  16 Different Link Building Strategies is a good introduction to this one so I recommend at least skim reading it. This article highlights two methods of increasing targeted traffic to your blog and links as well. read more…