Image via CrunchBase People have often questioned what the affect of irregular updates on a site have on their traffic ranking. Blogs have been introduced to many websites in order to help keep them “fresh” and make sure that search engines come back often. This has a direct impact on advertising earnings as well as [...]

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It’s that time of the year again where nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 SA Blog Awards. This is the first time that we are entering the competition and would appreciate your support. Nominating us is easy! Just click here or click the image to the right. I think there might be 1 [...]

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Top pages can be described in various ways by bloggers – I’m talking about Google PageRank. These are the pages on your site people link to most, and pages you can get paid the most for. Previously we’ve had to install a PageRank toolbar and manually crawl through what we thought would be the top [...]

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For anyone who doesn’t know, Gravatar is the global avatar system used by a lot of bloggers, specifically supported by the latest WordPress. Essentially, it associates an avatar with an email address you use to comment, so you can have your avatar show when you comment on blogs! Now, naturally its important to have an [...]

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So we were digging through older stuff and stumbled upon something we used to do with the guys from Vault9, MadAvatar. It was never properly launched and died an early death, but we’ve revived it and put it up again! Essentially, it allows you to customize an avatar for use on a forum or as [...]

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We often write about search engine optimization for bloggers here, and something we always mention when talking about PageRank or any search engine technology really are BackLinks (BL). Search engines consider links to your blog to be one of the most valuable ways of telling your authority for a certain term. If you are talking [...]

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A big part of building a successful blog is user engagement – having loyal readers who comment and return to your site. These readers will help to keep your site active, create discussions and the more you appeal to them so too will your user base grow. There are several tips to increasing the feedback [...]

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