Archive for the 'General Information' Category

Why I unsubscribe from some blogs

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Darren Rowse compiled a list of reasons why readers unsubscribe from your blogs.
I can certainly feel the main reason of “Too many posts.” I have personally unsubscribed from some blogs that posted a dozen of new articles a day.
“Infrequent posting” however is not my concern… and I am surprise that it’s high on the […]

I’m back, and some interesting links

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

I’m back from Chinese New Year holiday… and my RSS reader are full of interesting webmaster related links. Here are some of the good articles…
Wordpress 2.0.9 and 2.1.1 released
10 (+5) Requisites for Professional Bloggers
New to Blogging? Here are 5 Mistakes to Avoid
16 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings
Digg Lets Banned […]

The 15 Most Influential Blogs for Webmasters

Friday, February 9th, 2007

The 15 Most Influential Blogs for Webmasters and Internet Marketers according to 103bees.com.
I already subscribed to 13 of them, guess I’ll just need to add another 2.

How to Know When to Stop Blogging

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Lorelle wrote 15 tips on “how to know when not to blog.”
1. Stop blogging if you don’t have a purpose
2. Stop blogging if you do not have the time
3. Say “no” if you are already over-committed
4. Don’t blog when you’ve run out of original things to say
5. Don’t blog if you don’t have the temperament
6. […]

All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

As of now are all outbound links from the english Wikipedia Site using the NOFOLLOW attribute, no exceptions. [Source]

Renew your domain much earlier before it expired

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Chinese domain owners lost about 10,000 domain names because of the earthquake that cut undersea cables off the coast of Taiwan last month, state-controlled media reported Friday. [Source via Sabahan]
The quake has disrupted the Asia to US internet connection, and some China webmasters were not able to renew their domain.
I actually shared not sympathy […]

General rules are enough for success

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Sometimes it’s pretty irritating when newbie ask some questions in forums seeking for advice, and when they got some advices they said that it’s too general blah blah… waiting for spoon feeding.
Fact is, people give general advices because lots of the times it works. If you ask me how to build a successful blog, […]

Search engines ok with paid posting

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

An article from SEOmoz has reviewed that major search engines are ok with paid posting.
In recent months some incentivized blog posting programs are introduced where bloggers are paid to make a review for products and websites. The system has created quite some debates among webmasters and bloggers.