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

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, ,security, hacking,

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

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, blog design,

SEOmoz blog has 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic which includes a solid list for improving the optimization of your blog

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, SEO,

A while back when PayPerPost.com started it caused some controversy in the Blogosphere. PayPerPost has now gone international and now supports blogs written in English:

We have officially begun supporting international bloggers. Blogs are still required to be in English, but we now allow bloggers from all over the world to participate in PayPerPost. Thanks for being patient!

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, payperpost,paid blogging,

In a post highlighting his attempts to get product managers to start blogs at AOL, Jason Calcanis has highlighted how important blogs are to the internet industry in Blog or Die:

If you are in the Internet industry and you don’t have time to blog about your product then you should quit. Go home, give up, and find another career. Your competitors are blogging about their products and talking to the market, and there is no way to compete if you don’t engage the discussion. So, by not blogging you basically are giving up and telling the market that you don’t care. That’s the honest truth.

Blog or die!

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, internet industry, jason calcanis,

BusinessBlogWire has asked Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today the question How to Stop Bog Content Scrapers? His answers include RSS Feed security and reporting content scrapers to advertisers.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, rss, plagiarism, blog tips,

Qumana has provided a hack complete with screenshots to overcome problems Using Qumana with Blogger Beta.

Tags: blogging, blogs, blogging news, qumana, blog editors, blog tools,

Feedburner has announced additional features added to their email service:

Subscription management

* Activate, deactivate, and (now) delete individual email addresses
* Receive an optional email when people subscribe or unsubscribe

Communication preferences

* Customize the subject line and body text of the confirmation email sent to subscribers after they opt-in to receive your feed by email. (Handy for using hundreds of languages other than FeedBurnerese.)

Email Branding

* Customize the subject line and title of the email that is sent to your subscribers
* Add an image or logo to appear at the top of HTML email messages
* Change body and headline text fonts, sizes and colors, as well as text link colors

Delivery Options

* Choose your timezone
* Select a two-hour delivery window within which your daily digest will be sent

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