Coffs Harbour Web Designers

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How to Use Site Maps

As always SEO Book is one of the best resources for Search engine Optimization.  Check out the article on Sitemaps, the Do’s and Don’t’s at SEOBook Blog SEO Book Sitemaps XML

Visual Impairment Support

Coming soon, the worlds best resource for Internet use for people with Visual Impairment .   Web 3 Disabilities

WordPress Tutorial How To Do A Blog Post

Here is a Simple WordPress How to Do A Blog Post, it includes images and is designed for people with good basic gweb skills and average common sense.  It is in PDF format so it is viewable across formats and Browsers.  It’s Free.

View this document on Scribd

Tony Hogan SEO – Byron Bay and Northern Rivers

Byron Bay Web Designers – Google Search Youtube

I’ve added a Google Youtube at Bling at Ning about the changes to Google Spell Check search changes for the web designers at Byron Bay who are part of the bling at Ning Social Network.  This video is very short and is made by one of the developers who work for Google.

Tony Hogan Byron Bay  Web Design and SEO Traffic Strategist

Byron Bay Web Designer

Doxtop Document Publishing Blues Scales

I’m currently using doxTop Publishing document storage

Check out the Blues Acoustic Guitar Scales at Doxtop 

For more great Acoustic Guitar Stuff, Youtubes and articles go to 

Acoustic Guitarists and Acoustic Guitar Player

by Tony Hogan  

SEO Book Copy and Site Testing

Here is a link to a sensible article at the SEO Book blog about site testing. It’s sensible, organized and highly worth a read if you are interested in being successful with Web Development Site Testing. It is relating to writing good Copy

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Awesome SEO Tip

Heads UP –  Awesome SEO Tip

Scott Huffman revealed that mobile search results are blended between results from the mobile web and results from the regular/normal web. Makes sense, but not everyone knows that.

Tony Hogan

Song Around the World – Stand by Me Youtube

Although about Seven Million People have seen this, I know a lot of people who haven’t.

Stand By Me – Song around the World

Acoustic Guitarist Blog By Tony Hogan

Acoustic Guitar Facebook

I am now the adminstrator of a group on Facebook with 350 members

It is called Acoustic Guitar Society

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2258833234&ref=ts

To see a post about this, go to:

http://the-guitarplayer.com/2009/03/06/acoustic-guitar-society-group-on-facebook/

This Weeks Super Blogging Tip

Super Blogging Tip

Each Week I’ll be Posting One Blogging Tip from around the Blogsphere, here’s this weeks:

Develop a backup system for your blog posts and contents before disaster strikes. The time to backup your posts is while you are writing them. The best method of doing so is to use an offline blog editor to compose your posts in and to publish the posts directly into your blog.

Using an off-line blog editor, such as Windows Live Writer or BlogDesk, etc. rather than posting directly into the editor on any blogging platform provides you with a back-up copy of every post on your own computer. Therefore, if you press “publish” or “save” and find that the post or page did not make it into the database you can replace it quickly and easily.

Check out this:  Offline Blog Editors Reviews One Cool Site

10 More Tips from 50 Bloggers – Part 3

 

Ten Tips from 50 Bloggers

Here are the next 10 Tips From 50 Bloggers

Tip 1: Put your contact information at the top of your side bar where it is easily visible. If you want to be contacted include more than one way to get in touch with you, email, instant messaging, etc. The more ways that a blogger can communicate the better.
Hello, my blogging name is Book Calendar.  My web address is: http://bookcalendar.blogspot.com

Tip 2: Proofread. If you can catch 90% of your spelling errors and awkward wording by taking a second read-through (or, better yet, having  someone else read it) you’ll be miles ahead of the slapdash bloggers who can’t be bothered. Readers like to be able to understand your posts.

AND

Tip 3: Write your passion. If you have something, like music in my case, about which you have strong feelings and some knowledge, or at least enough interest to enjoy researching every few days, then you’ll have a topic about which your readers can feel your interest.  If you’re having to force yourself to blog and have no interest in your posts, you’re only wasting your time and that of people who end up at your  blog. Name: legbamel – I actually have a tip for each of my blogs.  Blog-  http://one-step-forward.net & Blog –  http://not-pop-jukebox.com

Tip 4: I would recomend the use of proper spelling and sentence structure. Avoid the use of slang or acronyms that others may not understand.  However, if you do use slang or acronyms, make sure to explain what they mean.  This way your reader will learn something and will most likely come back to read again. TheCrazyKitchen “Crazy Tom” http://thecrazykitchen.com

Tip 5: Encourage reader comments by asking your readers what they think about the topic you are blogging about. AND

Tip 6: Always respond to the comments on your blog–of course not all commenters return but I have had quite a few that told me that it meant a lot to them that I answered each individually. AND

Tip 7: Don’t have peripheral content that is distracting to the primary purpose of your blog (which should be the posted topics, imo).  For example, don’t have tons of widgets that don’t make sense to the purpose of your blog, such as a paypal when you aren’t selling anything on your blog, or other strange widgets that take up too much resources, causing pages to load s-l-o-w-l-y. AND

Tip 8: Write with passion. If you are passionate about your topics, your readers will sense it. blog: http://melindaville.com  mtyler77

Tip 9:  Do not give up hope. It takes time to build a successful blog. I’m talking weeks and months and maybe years. Be patient.Name:  Gabriel Gadfly – Blog: http://gabrielgadfly.com

Tip 10: I used to be a Cold Fusion developer. Before that I was an editor. These tips are intended to apply both to writing code and writing essays.  Never be satisfied with your first effort. Your work can always be simpler, cleaner, more economical.
Check, check and recheck again. Then go over it again the next day just to be sure.

windroot – http://www.windroot.com/everyman/home.htm

10 More Hot Tips from 50 Bloggers

50 Blogging Tips

Tip 1 : prepare your blog entry in Microsoft Word and save it to your hard drive. Copy and paste your blog entry into your on-line blog.
By doing this you protect your work from being obliterated mid-sentence in the event of a power failure or HD crash or upload catastrophe. Name: Sweet Violet – Web Address: http://sweetvioletsa.blogspot.com/

Tip 2:  Before writing a post, think of a target audience. And pictures speak more than a thousand words Name: Roentarre 
Web Address http://www.facadephotos.com/  & http://www.50mmphotos.com/

Tip 3: Always know or find your niche. Be an expert on your topic and post to your target audience.
Name: Ettarose  – Web Address http://thevoicesofthem.blogspot.com/

Tip 4 : If you want more people to comment on your blog go down the “Do follow” route and of course write stuff that peoplein your niche will be interested in reading and commenting on.
Name: Russell Webname: inbusiness Website: http://www.in-business.org.uk/

Tip 5: Find out what Aristotel has to say about rhetoric and apply to blogging.
Name Walker Website: http://games.walkersblog.info (in poor english, lol)

Tip 6: Let’s see…. Building a set of loyal readers is key. You can always get people to look at your blog through sites like entrecard,  technorati and blogcatalog (just to name a few) but for quality traffic you have to work a little harder. AND

Tip 7: There’s a few ways to do this, but the best way I’ve found is to be an active commentator on other people’s blogs. When they know you’re reading their blog they will be inclined to read yours.  AND

Tip 8:  is to register/submit your link to google, yahoo, ask.com etc and if you’re posting relevant material you’ll get a lot of search engine traffic that way too.  Travis – Site: News Today – http://www.newsday.today.com/

Tip 9: Make regular entries to your blog. Don’t let a week go by without adding at least 2 or 3 postings. Keeping your content fresh and up-to -date, and relevant to the theme of your blog, should encourage repeat visits and a loyal following.
Name: Flashgamerone Address: http://www.flashgamerone.com

Tip 10 : Proofread your work. At least two or three times. Don’t let your eagerness to submit a post get in the way of a well written post. The extra time is worth it.  Name : Larry McDowell – Guitar Musings Site: www.guitarmusings.com

That’s the Second set of 10 – Call Back and See what the Other 30 or So Bloggers have to say.  

ONE SIMPLE TIP MAY MAKE A MASSIVE DIFFERENCE

Keyword Suggestion Tool

Here’s a great little online tool useful to Web Designers who don’t wish to waste their time building websites about Uzbekistani  Camels or such things as the Campanula robinsiae.  It’s a no brainer tool to help with Keyword Suggestions.  It runs online at the following web address Keyword Suggest.  

There is also Wordtracker the industry standard professional tool at Wordtracker website.  The old Pixelfast / Overture tool was very good but has nowbeen swalled up by the Yahoo Search crew . 

If you want to be a web designer, start to develop a set of useful tools. 

WordPress Link Category Rename Error Fixed

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A week or so back I discovered my second error with WordPress 2.7, well actually it was theirs not mine. One thing I’ve developed over the years is an eye for errors and being able to discriminate if it’s a user error or a real error.  I had some trouble with Changing the Link Category Name.  For me this is very important.  A lot of bloggers wouldn’t even consider this as an issue, but there’s the odd little trick you can do with your sidebar if you’re smart.

So I emailed the Support Team at WordPress and they’re always helpful and they got back to me pretty fast, same day etc, and said it was a coding error.  Today they emailed me to let me know it’s up and running again.

So here’s how to change the names of your Link Categories:

1. Login
2. Click on Links on the left hand menu
3. When the dropdown menu expands  – Click on
4. In the middle of the screen under Name, there’s a list of Link Categories
5. Mouse Over (RollOver) the one you wish to change Link Category Names
6. Click on Edit – You will now be on another page
   
7. In the Category Name  Text Area – Write in the New Name e.g. Tony Hogan’s Cool Blogs
8. In the Description  Text Area – Write in some descriptive text e.g.  ” Link to Send Tony Lots of Money”
9. Click on Update Category Button –
10. Check that the Category Name has changedYou will then return to the Link Categories page

For WordPress Support Forum and Search – Click WordPress Support

Thanks to the WordPress Team once again

Entrepreneurs Journey Yaro Starak Blogger

If you are not familiar with Yaro’s work at Entrepreneurs Journey as a Blogger, it’s worthwhile checing him out  Yaro is the creator of the Blog Profits Blueprint eBook, the industry standard eBook for bloggers globally.  Check out his book Blog Profits 

The tips in here are practical and many are appliable by people with minimal computer skills.  I’m going to get students studying on a  Web Development Diploma to sign up with Yaro,  analyse what is in it,  pick what they consider to be the twenty most important Blogger Tips and then post them here.  

Blog Profits Blueprint

 Many of the Web Design courses which are run by Educational Institutions often only cover interface design and a little tiny bit on keywords.  As a number of us who are teaching on the Web Diploma work non-stop on the web and are constantly looking for new strategies that are happening NOW or about to happen, we are prepared to push the parameters a little as we wish our students to be successful in their careers and have more than just a piece of paper to show for their efforts.  

Social Networking has been around for a few years now and to leave them out of the mix, is a severe mistake.  In fact, the web is now moving ahead and way past Social Networking and it’s worthwhile looking to see where it’s all heading.  Social Networks in a way are a bit like online Islands where people communicate, but what we are seeing now is the cross polination with other Social Networks and the power of this bwhen analysed creates numerous opportunities for those that have their heads up and have the vision to see what is useful and what is not, and those with the ability to quickly see and work out testing methodoligies to ascertain what really works and what is basically crap.   I have been watching Yaro for sometime.  His is NOT the only way but he has a working model.  Yaro’s site is at Entrepreneurs Journey

Here is one of Yaro’s Pillar Articles Internet Summit Read it Now

Seth Godin Lectures the Google Guys

Seth Godin Blog

If you are a web designer and have no idea who Seth Godin is , you may as well be dead or at minimum you might like to bury your computer, buy a natural hemp outfit and go live in the hills at Nimbin.  Here’s Seth’s Blog, I suggest, should I have to suggest you subscribe to it, here’s his link  Seth Godin

Seth Godin lectures to the guys at Google, if that doesn’t make alarm bells ring. Here’s a link to his famous chat he had at Google.  Seth Godin Youtube. One thing worth noting about Seth Godin’s Blog is the simplicity of it.  His posts are simple and to the point  and also note his advertising on the left column, a simple two column Blog and his products for sale are his books.  This guy is realy just marketing  his brain content.   He is well worth exploring.

If you are sensible,  you’d watch his video and list 20 things that he mentions in his talks.  And then put into practice what he says.

Web Business Blog – Chris Brogan on Twitter

This WEB Business Blog is designed for people studying Web Design.  It will include Tips and links to great resources on shifting from an old fashion Web Designer who spends much of their time adjusting the interface of their site and waiting for traffic, into someone who is proactive in developing their sites to function as fully fledged online businesses which work.

The first thing to have a look at is Chris Brogan’s Site and his very cool article on using Twitter for businesses.

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Here is my Twitter Name webbusinessblog for simple updates, follow me at Twitter.com