Monday, October 29, 2007

Protect Your Blogs Content

Build A Better Blog Day 27Today's tip is a reminder to protect your blogs content. Over time you till undoubtedly create a large amount of content. You may want some of that content protected by copyright and some you may not. It all depends on what's important to you and what's not. However I would establish a terms of use statement on your blog just so everyone knows how you want your content treated. Will this stop someone from stealing your content? Absolutely not.There is a great post over at DailyblogTips about Copyright...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007

Facebook Opens API To Mobile Developers

This is a very exciting addition to the Facebook developer platform. One major application I'm writing will definitely take advantage of these new features, specifically SMS. I use Facebook via my mobile device most of the time. I'm exciting this new addition to the API will bring richer applications to market.Reading more about the SMS feature of the API it seems there is a throttle on the number of messages that can be sent out. That makes sense seeing how there is a cost to send out messages. However, I can also see this...
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Blogging For Love Or Money

Build A Better Blog Day 26Today I'm asking a question; do you blog for love or money? You may be blogging for both but I doubt it. It's a very valid question and should be answered logically.The logical progression for bloggers is to start introducing ads somewhere in there blog in hopes of earning some much needed income. If you ask most bloggers they would be happy with enough income to pay for their hosting costs. Personally I think you should be in one of two camps. One, you should build your blog template and content to...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Sweat Your Blogs Details

Build A Better Blog Day 25Today's tip is to absolutely sweat the details. If you are serious about building a successful blog you need to make sure even the smallest aspects are right. People have literally millions of options when it comes to blogs. If you work hard to build a solid following, making small mistakes will undermine all your efforts. Here is a small list of things to continually pay attention too: Spelling and Grammar. Have a serious problem with either of these and some people will just move on. At least take...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

Decide Your Blogs Domain Now Rather Than Later

Build A Better Blog Day 24Today I want to talk about the type of blogging platform you use. There are basically two main types; one is self-hosted, where you pay someone to provide the infrastructure to run a blog, and the other is hosted, where you use a pre-configured application like Blogger or Vox. The other part that goes along with what type of platform you choose is whether you have your own domain or use a hosted domain. Here are some examples:Self Hosted:yourcompany.comblog.yourcompany.comyourcompany.com/blogHosted:yourblog.blogspot.comblog.vox.commyblog.wordpress.comThere...
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