Bloggers Buzz

Problogger has included a post on Blog Security - Tips on Keeping Your Blog from being Hacked which is quite topical considering the number of high profile blogging hackings lately

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Workboxers presented an interview with Patrick Gavin of Text Link ads discussing aspects of earning money from your blog including reasons for rejection from TLA and what determines the price

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From The Blog Studio, The WordPress Helper Sheet:

A few months back I had the idea to simplify the creation of Wordpress templates by creating a simple text document that contains my most used tags. Its basically just a text document, but its useful, and has increased the speed at which I create templates by 100%.

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Blogger has countered concerns about insufficient up to date information on issues and bugs with the launch of Known Issues for Blogger in Beta

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Work Boxers tackles some tips on Adsense Tweaking in Adsense Tweaking - It’s all in the Content covering tips for getting better results in contextual advertising

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Wordpress.com have wrapped up August and included was some impressive stats:

How about some stats? In August you guys created about 56k blogs, 57k users, 1.2 million posts, 188k pages, 1.3 million comments, 3.5k support requests, 196k file uploads, and around 45 million pageviews. (Not counting admin section, images, CSS, RSS feeds, etc.)

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Blogger has redesigned their login boxes:

With that, we say good-bye to the combined Blogger / Google Accounts sign-in box on our homepage. Functional? Quite (though not everyone believes me). Well-designed? Not a chance. We’ve listened to the problems with our combined login box, and we have a solution.

The new login choice on the homepage should relieve any Google Accounts–related login trouble you may have. And if you’re like me and still haven’t been able to switch to the beta, you’ll be happy to find that your password manager will stop trying to fill in your Google Account login information on Blogger

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The Blog Studio has launched part 2 of their How to design a blog series Describing the purpose and setting goals which covers some of the following:

* let our target market know we exist
* show off our work
* position us as experts in our field
* give a sense of our character
* keep visitors coming back
* elicit inquiries

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