Blogging Posts

February 4th, 2008
Mark O

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 ...

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January 11th, 2008
Mark O

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 ...

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December 3rd, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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November 19th, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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October 28th, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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October 3rd, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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October 1st, 2007
The Tutor

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. ...

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September 28th, 2007
The Tutor

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, ...

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September 28th, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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September 24th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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September 20th, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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September 19th, 2007
The Tutor

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:...

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September 18th, 2007
The Tutor

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, ...

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September 17th, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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September 12th, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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August 13th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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July 20th, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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May 3rd, 2007
Peter Jalbert

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....

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May 2nd, 2007
Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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April 18th, 2007
Peter Jalbert

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 ...

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April 9th, 2007
The Tutor

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 ...

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March 23rd, 2007
The Tutor

Blogspot contest free domain winners announced!

Woo hoo! That was pretty fun, thanks to everyone that joined in! Drum roll please.... The 6 *spam free* domain winners are: Vic http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/2007032320511136/ Nancy http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/2007030309484090/ Gdog ...

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March 23rd, 2007
The Tutor

Blogspot is so bad, I’ll buy you a domain just to get your blog off there!

This post and it's comments keeps irritating the hell out of me, not because of any particular comment, but because the issue of having your ...

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March 20th, 2007
The Tutor

Why you should NOT be using blogger/blogspot for your blog

Seriously, if you take your blog seriously, you don't want to be in this mix -- Three out of every four unique Blogspot.com URLs that appeared in ...

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March 8th, 2007
The Tutor

MyBlogLog thinks Google Tutor is hot!

This is really neat -- Yeah, you are seeing that right, today GT became a "hot" MBL community!!! How cool is that? I've really ...

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