One man and his blog

Get the gist…

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:37:25 +0000

Ok, I’m getting the gist of how Facebook works. I learned quickly that you can’t hold more than one Facebook account. Well you can, but don’t get found out, and don’t say I said so. The way to do it is to have one personal account and then create separate ‘pages’ for each interest you have, and each will stand as its own entity, independent of your personal page if you link directly to it, great!

Room for doubt?

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:55:14 +0000

I received a comment in Spanish doubting the truth of my ‘Which Blog Platform?’ entry, in which I said that hosting your own blog gives you an SEO advantage (rather than using one of the hosted blogs). I’ve done some more digging and found others who agree. Thanks to Spurtco who suggest that a blog must be integrated directly into the structure of a website to ‘efficiently drive traffic to it’. Hosted blogs are on a separate network and might not increase your website SEO potential because search engines ‘identify the blog as its own website entity’. This makes sense to me, but I will keep an open mind and look out for others who say the contrary. (Thanks for the comment – in Spanish – I would link to you but virus warnings came up on your website)

Careful now…

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:02:14 +0000

I have gone ahead and created a new Facebook account, but it became clear very early on that I will expose myself to all on my contact list. I’m not ready to go ‘live’ as yet, so I’ve created a new Hotmail account with an empty contact list so that I don’t bombard everyone I know with an invitation to be my friend. I’m not sure I want 387 people on my Friend’s list anyway, just a handful of the ones I care about most.

Ping Pong

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:12:30 +0000

It’s a bit early to set my ‘Trackbacks’ and ‘Pings’, but I will get to it when this blog has done some hard miles. The networking starts immediately it seems, terrific! I have installed a plugin called ‘Simple Trackback Validation’ to check Trackbacks aren’t spam, thanks Michael Woehrer, and thanks for the tip Daily Blog Tips.

Which blog platform?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:27:10 +0000

I’ve been looking for the ‘best’ blog platform. I’ve decided on the Wordpress self-hosting option for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I have CSS and HTML skills, so I can use a platform that needs some work ‘under the hood’. Secondly, I need to look ahead and consider how the blog will integrate with my other sites and give me a SEO advantage. It makes sense then to choose a self-hosting platform, because it uses my own domain and lives on my server. Hosting my blog on different server to my web site is a bit silly, if I think about it. Thanks to Blogging Basics 101 for the… uhh… basics, and credit to SEO Consult