BOTW Review
Next to Yahoo! and DMOZ, Best of the Web (BOTW) is one of the oldest most respected directories on the web. But it remains somewhat of ...
Blogging Posts
A Blogger’s best friend – Insights plugin for WordPress
Recently I had the pleasure of using Vladimir’s WordPress service for some help with my Google Reader Shared Items plugin. Vlad impressed me with his knowledge of ...
Recommended Wordpress plugin – Smart YouTube
Recently I decided to start posting some of the more helpful videos I find on YouTube, you may have noticed my first one on Google Analytics. ...
63 signs you’re addicted to Google and the Church of Search
After reading Mark’s post the other day and announcing I can easily survive without Google I realized something — I’m really probably one of the biggest ...
How to publish a blogroll of your Google Reader RSS feeds
Google Reader has a neat feature where you can publicise your RSS subscriptions in a “blogroll”. A blogroll is a list of links and when you make ...
Protect your Wordpress blog content with RSS Footer
Every blogger who has been around in the blogging scene for at least a while will know of this scenario. You spend ages preparing ...
Two new bloggers kickin it at Google Tutor!
I’m proud to announce two new bloggers you’ll see here on GT – Mark O’Neill and Joost de Valk! Mark O’Neill You’ve probably noticed this guy writing a ...
New theme for Google Tutor!
Well, it took 4 years but the time finally came, we’ve got a new theme!! I couldn’t tweak the old one any further and it was getting ...
PR dropped to 4. Presumed guilty.
Yeah, I know, I’m late to the PR drop whine party but yesterday GT’s dropped from a strong 5 to 4 so I thought I’d share ...
Google Desktop is inflating your RSS subscribers
Graywolf figured it out: If someone has Google Desktop installed and is using the web clips a bit of background voodoo happens. Web clips autodiscovers RSS feeds ...
Link Exchange 2.0 is here.
I just noticed Patrick over at BlogStorm posted about a deal I cooked up last week – Link Exchange 2.0: Exchanging RSS feed ads. Patrick and ...
Ok, I think full feeds are working now!
I had no idea the Wordpress setting for full feeds doesn’t work on versions 2.1+ due to the addition of the<!–more–> tag in all posts, but ...
Going full RSS feed!
Ah, the great debate – full vs. partial RSS feeds! Like many of you I’ve been following the debate all over the blogosphere for years now and ...
Using Google Shared Stuff
Last week Google launched a link sharing service, not unlike what many social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, furl, digg and magnolia is trying to do. ...
How to control BlogRush headlines with WordPress
John Chow came up with a pretty neat way to control your BlogRush headlines but the whole process was a little too manual for me so I ...
BlogRush is kickin it – 15,602 credits and counting!
Well, for me anyway. I know some others aren’t getting much traffic from BlogRush yet, not sure why. Here’s my stats so far: Direct traffic seems to have ...
Sphere It can Suck It
I took the Sphere It widget off the site last night after having it running almost since they launched. Why? No traffic. And I mean zero, zip, ...
5min = 182 visitors in 24hrs!
Not bad, eh? After reading about and loving the idea of BlogRush (if it works) I signed up sometime yesterday and added it to the site. And ...
WebProNews loses all credibility, asks John Chow about Google rankings!?
WTF? I like WPN and John Chow but what is going on here!? Let’s see WPN is know for: Usually decent tech info, especially on the SEO/SEM side ...
Google News Tutorial: Search
While the common use case in News reading assumes a passive user/reader simply browsing all the available news for that day, there are people on some ...
Blazingly fast Google Blog Search indexing
Like many others I’ve been pretty disappointed with Google’s Blog Search because it was never updated quickly enough in the areas I track. More recently I noticed ...
How the Google PageRank system changed my life. (Part 2)
(…continued) How to get a Google Toolbar and Enable PageRank: 1. Go to http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/. Or else, go to the Google homepage and click MORE. 2. Then scroll down the ...
How the Google PageRank system changed my life. (Part 1)
I had started my blog-city blog on the 30th of June in 2005. Though I already had a blogspot account, I chose blog-city because it was ...
Google vs. Paid Links
Google is against paid links, or at least that’s how it appears from a recent post by Google’s quality control and anti-spam guy Matt Cutts. One thing ...
Tag, I’m it :)
My friend Jace over at the Internet Safety-For Our Children’s Sake blog tagged me for a meme and this one looked pretty easy so I thought ...
