Are you an A-list Bloggebrity? Check out your rating
I made the B List but just take this as a bit of fun rather than something set in concrete.
Reading
- An excellent article by Dosh Dosh (aren’t they all!) How to Become an Authority in Your Niche: Eight Content Development Tactics
- I recently posted on how and why to use Alt tags. Blogging Mix has also published an article on the subject Blogging Tips - Importance Of Using ALT Tags In Your Images, which includes a YouTube video by Matt Cutts
- Elevator statements and your blog- this may give you a lift. Groan.
- We Media A report on how audiences are shaping the future of news and information.
Social Networking
- New goodies from BlogCatal Announcement of New Dashboard Andy Beard article: Blogcatalog Give Purpose To The Social Graph-
- MyBlogLog has a new style widget as you can see in my sidebar. Now hovering over an image brings out a pop out . You can find out who the face belongs to and bypass MBL and go directly to its blog. I would appreciate it if the widget was more customizable so that I could style it to suit my blog.
- Disqus . Create your own discussion forum. Bloggers can create a a widget to display their forum conversation on their blog, integrate Disqus with their blog comments system
- Are You Someone’s
User-Generated Content? Copyblogger makes a case against contributing too much to social networking sites to the detriment of your blog. This is “like remodeling the kitchen in a house you rent” - Hakia
Blogger
- Use MySpace Layout with Blogger - I am not really sure why you would want to unless you do actually have a good MySpace design and wish to transport it to blogger to help maintain your identity.
Wordpress
- Photo Dropper Wordpress plugin - a new plugin that searches flickr for Creative Commons licensed photos to add to your Wordpress blog.
- Wordpress 2.3 Configurable Tag Cloud Widget A sidebar widget producing a tag cloud/list that allows customization of color, font size and more. Nicely replaces the default Wordpress tag cloud feature that cannot, as yet, be styled.
Search Engine News
- Mom and Pop Websites? Is Your Brand Big Enough? Google does not like default Wordpress themes, I wonder what it thinks of blogspot default themes?
- Hats off to Google (for a change ) for Google Grants which provides free advertising for non profit organizations
- Hakia Labs - aspects of hakia R&D
Woohoo, I’m a d-list blogger, should I be upset about that or really pleased I’m not in the same category as Paris Hilton?
Carl’s last blog post..A weed, my mate Bruce, and Ronda doorways.
I would be pleased. I made the B List - forgot to add that to my post originally. I would not take this too seriously Carl, the rating is not all inclusive in its measurements.
Wow, huge list of resources. Don’t love Google helpin someone for a change?
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I’m a C list. Hmmm, don’t know if I am offended or pleased!
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You are an A lister to me Kelly. Your blog just has not been round long enough yet.
That was fun! I’d never seen that before, and my blog turned out to be a B-Lister.
Thanks for sharing these links; I love finding quality blogs to subscribe to.
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Thanks Lin - it was meant to be a bit of fun. I thought it would be popular too
It worked too, eh?
I honestly don’t even check what my Technorati rank is, as I’m just too busy writing to worrying about stats all the time.
I of course found your blog through the aussie forum, so there are definitely great benefits to participating in various networking venues, and somehow balance the time and energy put into each one.
Now I’m back to the forum to see what’s going on over there.
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Lots of great links here Sue! Mahalo!
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Maholo Kuanyin. Great to see you here too. Hope you are getting back into the blogging frame of mind now and enjoying it.
So basically the technorati widget tells that anyone with a number “x” of links is an A, B, C, D etc blogger? I am amazed! LOL. Should I congratulate the A-lists for the way they manage to get links or for their writing?
Sue, don’t get me wrong, you deserve to be called an A list blogger but it’s the quality of your work that makes you one and not a silly technorati widget! With or without links you will always be on my A list, girl!
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The image was just an image, forgot to put my own rating up there but I have done so now. A B. You are right Mig, it is nothing to be taken too seriously, just a bit of bling and fun.
Like the article from Dosh Dosh, thanks for the great list of references.
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