Archive for the ‘Blogging Tips’ Category

Using Feedburner to enchance and track RSS traffic

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Before going to talk about Feedburner, lets have a short chat on RSS.

What is RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a way to distribute your latest blog post as a short feed similar to a short heading of your post. Instead of visiting your favorite sites to find out the latest news, we can subscribe to your favorite blog post RSS feeds using a RSS reader. So from the RSS reader, you are able to glance first view of the latest news on your favorite sites.

So why Feedburner? (more…)

MyBlogLog, self updating blogroll of who visited your site

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Further to my post on why you should have a blogroll, here is nice web application which i recently sign up on, MyBlogLog. I call it a ’self updating blogroll’

Join My Community at MyBloglog!

For blog owners, how it works is first we have to insert a Javascript code to your blog pages. With this code, we will be able to track which MyBlogLog members visit your blog!

Next up, to display this ‘blogroll’ of who visited your site, insert the MyBlogLog widget to your sidebar. (more…)

Creating categories to store your blog post properly

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Here are a few categories type which I apply on my blog in order to start to store my blog post in a proper manner:

  • Formal categories types. Example is types of blog post, is it a business post, consumer post, crappy post. Which market the blog post caters to, travel, food etc
  • Characteristics of blog post( cool, dark side, sexy, funny, complains etc)
  • Meaning of your blog post. Is there a message you want to bring across.
  • Date/time of your blog post

This is important so that your readers know where to find the relevant content. So start organizing your thoughts for your blog’s categories

Why you should have a Blogroll

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Blogroll is a very cool term for ‘links on your blog site’. It allows me to showcase links to my friends’ blog and also other favorite blogs at the sidebar of my Wordpress blog. Its like telling visitors on your blog ‘Here are some blogs that you might like to visit too’!

It feels great if you have other bloggers who add you into their blogroll. Its like you been accepted to their blogs(home).They feel the same when you add their blog site to my blogroll as well :D

To be accepted in their blogroll is a challenging 1. Your blog (more…)

The fun branding of online identity

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Branding. As some of you might heard(hopefully), I just re brand my online identity. What is branding? In my Alien terms, it is an identity that reminds people what the brand represent. Just like what Mcdonald reminds us of fast food, YouTube reminds us of online video and Google, leading search engine(some say the next empire to overtake Microsoft) plus Alien represents creatures from outer space.

There are many names/codes to choose from. So for my online identity, I choose Alien TYC. Why Alien? Because it’s pronunciation is close to my real name and this is the fun part of online branding, give yourself a online identity that you like.

The name of this blog site is ‘Mobile is just like that’ so what does it represent? For that, it is not what I state that represent the brand. It is the readers who will define the brand for my blog. Hopefully the blog’s online identity will be unique and many will remember they read Alien TYC’s blog at mobile.islikethat.com :)