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Next Generation Search Engine Results May Include Profiling

November 8, 2005 – 11:48 am

No matter what you may say about it, profiling happens. Police, security forces, military, airport security, and other security officials in the business to judge others for “our protection” do it, whether or not it is legal or “right”. And now Google wants to add profiling to your search engine search results in the near […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Wise | Comments (1)

Blog Exercises: How to Link to Comments

April 29, 2013 – 4:38 am

Do you have brilliantly intelligent and thoughtful commenters? I do. I often find something someone’s left in a post comment worth writing a blog post about and quoting. In this Blog Exercise we’ll look at how to link to comments on your site and how to properly reference them and cite the original author in […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blockquote, blog exercises, citation, comment links, comment permalink, comments, credit, interactivity, link to a comment, links, permalinks, quote readers, quotes, readers, social, social web | Comments (2)

Blog Exercises: April Random Editing Day

April 8, 2013 – 4:14 am

It’s the April Random Editing Day in our ongoing series of Blog Exercises. With Spring in the air, flowers and trees blooming, it’s time to flex your editing muscles on four blog posts this month. If you are having trouble finding random posts, think of a keyword that best describes your site or a topic […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog writing, Blogging Tips, content, edit, editing, editorial content, random editing, update content, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (4)

The Secret Recipe of Comment Spam Comments

April 4, 2013 – 3:05 pm

Mr. Louis Vuitton just sent me a message in my blog comments I’d like to share with you. I share this touching message because it is highly educational when it comes to the art of spam comments, and serves to remind us of why we love having Akismet, the best comment spam fighter, on our […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress News | Tags: akismet, comment spam, comments, evil, spam, spam comments, WordPress Tips | Comments (33)

Blog Exercises: Speed Blogging with CoLT

March 15, 2013 – 4:01 am

I’d like to introduce you to the work horse I use for speed blogging. It’s a web browser add-on for Firefox called CoLT. It stands for Copy Link Text. I will be offering a variety of web browser tips and tools to make blogging faster and easier throughout these Blog Exercises, and of all of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress Tips, Writing, Blogging Tips, Blogging, Blog Exercises | Tags: firefox, Writing, Blogging Tips, writing tips, html, web browser, blog exercises, writing for the web, speed blogging, colt, web browser tips, firefox tips, firefox extension, firefox add-on, productivity | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

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Blog Exercises: Know Your Pageviews

March 13, 2013 – 4:28 am

In this Blog Exercise, it is time to learn some website jargon, specifically, what are all the web pages of your site called. I teach web publishing with WordPress and web design courses at two colleges, and I’m stunned that students don’t know at the lack of proper names for all the parts of a […]

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Blog Exercises: Trackback Check-Up

March 5, 2013 – 4:15 am

It’s time to check your trackbacks. In Blog Exercises: Trackbacks and Blog Exercises: Backlinks you learned about trackbacks, the automatic process of a site linking to yours and generating a comment-like notification to alert you of the link to your article, and helping your readers discover what others are saying about your article. In this […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips | Tags: audience, back links, backlinks, blog exercises, blog focus, comments, content, content with intent, demographics, feedback, interactiity, linkbacks, most popular posts, popular posts, readers, social, social media, trackbacks, what do you blog about | Comments (1)

Blog Exercises: How to Publish Code

February 25, 2013 – 4:04 am

I blog about the technical side of blogging, about WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, HTML, CSS, web design – code. I often blog about code. And people ask me code questions. I’ve become an expert in writing code so it looks like code on web pages. The time may come, or you may have already […]

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Blog Exercises: Backlinks

February 7, 2013 – 4:29 am

Known as incoming links or referrer links, backlinks are links pointing from an external site to your site, directing their readers to you as a resource. Timethief of “one cool site blogging tips” describes backlinks as: Backlinks to your content are like votes for your blog. The more backlinks your blog receives the higher it […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: analytics, appreciation, backlinks, blog exercise, blog exercises, external sites, friends, incoming links, linking, links, relationships, seo, stats, thank you, web analytics, web writing, Writing | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Make Post Titles Matter

January 29, 2013 – 4:52 am

Post titles are the titles of the articles you publish on your site. They represent the subject matter of the article. Newspapers and magazines are famous for their sensationalism when it comes to titles, lurking in readers with “Sexy Siren Stabs Six.” Or they include number counts to impress. “101 Best Ways to Cook a […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: article titles, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog writing, blogging, Blogging Tips, edit, editing, post titles, search engines, seo, titles, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (1)

Happy Anniversary WordPress: The Beginnings

January 23, 2013 – 8:55 pm

On August 16, 2005, Lorelle on WordPress became blog ID number 72 on the brand new WordPress.com. The first post was appropriately titled “Lorelle on WordPress” to introduce the site. Looking back, it’s amazing how true to form that I’ve kept the mission of this site all these years later as proposed in the first […]

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Blog Exercises: Polls and Surveys

January 23, 2013 – 4:05 am

Gathering data on the web is an important part of the business of the web. It’s your turn to start gathering. In today’s Blog Exercises, you will be creating a poll or survey. Polls and surveys can be placed in posts or in your sidebar, depending upon the technique you choose. If you are on […]

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Blog Exercises: The Content Project Form

January 22, 2013 – 4:36 am

In these year-long Blog Exercises dealing with editorial or content calendars, we’re working on exploring all the dates you can add to your calendar, including adding seasonal post content and other date-sensitive blog posts and articles. In this exercise, we’re going to create a content project form. The goal of a content project form is […]

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Blog Exercises: Blogging with the Seasons

January 17, 2013 – 4:45 am

Gardeners are ruled by the seasons, changing crops and growing methods so food and flowers are grown year around in some areas. Chefs love to use the freshest foods, thus are ruled by the results of gardeners and influenced by the seasons. Outdoor enthusiasts are often ruled by the season, shifting from running in summer […]