Category: Blog Tips

2014 Predictions from your Friendly Neighbourhood Blog Bloke

I was reading an article titled “5 Predictions for Social Media in 2014” by Inc.  I don’t normally write new year predictions because the contrarian in me doesn’t...

A Tribute To My Buddy Wayne Hurlbert

UPDATE:  This just came in from Wayne’s sister Wanda .. “@BlogBloke It was determined that Wayne had a massive heart attack. It was a lovely autumn day for...

Happy New Year To All My Blokesters

Well we made it to another new year and may 2013 be better than the last one! Do I hear an amen to that? This is just a...

Is Blogging Really Dead, Just Like the Web is Dead? Ya Right..

I was reading a great article from Mathew Ingram at Gigaom about how blog research statistics can become totally twisted: Blogging is on the decline, according to a New York Times story...

Why Content Curation is BS

When I see internet marketers pushing “content curation”my BS meter automatically goes off. Beep .. beep .. beep! Today is no exception. When I first heard of the term...

10 Blog Design Tips That Will Take You to the Next Level

Anatomy of a Successful Blog: Most new bloggers don’t understand the difference between a professional blog and an amateur. So I’ve outlined below 10 of the most common...

Do You Blog or Facebook? Which Is It?

Have you ever asked yourself why some marketers are pushing Facebook so hard? Well I have. So the question begged to be answered  … Why? Well I think I’ve come...

Add Google Buzz to the WordPress Plugin “Sociable”

You can’t help but notice all ofthe buzz (no pun intended) overGoogle’s latest foray into the crowded Social Networking arena. So I was looking for away to add Google Buzz to the popular Wordpress plugin“Sociable” that I have at the bottom of all my posts. Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything so I decided to take a stab at it myself. After a little fiddling this is what I came up with. I’m in a hurry so I won’t bother making this into a detailed tutorial with pretty pictures. I’m also assuming you have some rudimentary knowledge working around your Wordpress dashboard and cPanel. If however enough people request it, I will consider expanding on this post into a full-blown tutorial. But for now this will have to do. 1. First of all you will need a cute Google Buzz icon. Here is one that I’ve already optimized for you. Just right-click and download it to your desktop(please don’t hotlink off my web host’s bandwidth … thanks). 2. Secondly, upload your new Google Buzz icon via FTP to your Sociable plugin images directory on your web space. 3. Next, look for the following array code in your sociable.php file. (But before you do that be sure you have temporarily disabled your Sociable plugin or it might set off alarm bells. You also need to write-enable it’s file attributes to 666). ‘GoogleBuzz‘ => Array ( ‘favicon‘ => ‘googlebuzzicon.png‘, ‘url‘...

2010 Marks the Beginning of the End for Quality Content

The BIG NEWS for 2010 is Google is dumbing-down it’s algorithms to accomodate the idle chit-chat of Social Media. Google is ringing in the New Year with a PageRank shakeup that...

8 Killer Blog Tips for Getting Free Traffic

I am by no means an expert on the topic of blogging. But I’m going to share with you some 8 effective ways that I’ve discovered to get...