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June 22, 2006

Dish the Dirt on Backstabbers!

Posted by Sarah King in WordPress

I’ve just started a new blog, open to any contributor, to collect personal stories of backstabbing incidents.

If you have a story to tell, rock on over and type it up

Backstabber.info

May 16, 2006

Who said chicks don’t blog!

Posted by Sarah King in Other Stuff

I stumbled across Jack of All Blogs today, in particular Move over boys, we are pimping out the blogosphere. Girls, it’s worth a read! Are we quietly just getting on and doing our thing - or are we being walked over.

Now, I can’t imagine the other SarahK, Summer or Andrea being walked over… nor Cathy Odgers (come back, we miss you!)

Cathy is quoted over at Kea Blog as saying: More »

April 3, 2006

Another Widgets exponent

Posted by Sarah King in WordPress

I downloaded the Widgets plugin for WordPress the other day and didn’t think I’d have time to check it out for a bit but I took 5 minutes today to install it on my experimental WPv2 blog. Well, the install took seconds, I activated it, and had it setup in no time at all.

The only shame is that once you’ve played with it you have no reason to continue doing so.

February 24, 2006

BlogParty’s latest Incarnation

Posted by Sarah King in Search Engine Optimisation

Mike Dammann from BlogParty is one of those people with infectious optimism and energy. His blogs are spawned all over the web and I lose track of what, where and why.

BlogParty now seems to be just a blog, with the forum moving back to it’s blogparty.com domain. Lets hope the hosting is more reliable than some of the others used!

So, to try and drum up some attention, he’s offering $250 in a prize draw for bloggers mentioning BlogParty. The only problem is that by blogging about it you’re likely to increase the number of contestants and reduce your chances of being picked. Damn Dammann!

January 24, 2006

WordPress Archive Lists

Posted by Sarah King in WordPress

One thing I haven’t become involved with is writing plugins for WordPress but I have been looking at ways to make my blog more efficient.

I tried out a tag system back in October but found that it generated too many tags and often irrelevant tags so finally scrapped it in favour of the plugins from Ultimate Tag Warrior produced by fellow kiwi Christine Davis (who I don’t actually know ;)). Her system allowed me to produce a “Tag Cloud” which is pretty cool.

I haven’t totally got my head around the custom tags page with url rewriting but for now I’m happy with urls like /index.php?tag=kiwi and I’ve learnt a little about templates.

So when I posted some info about the UTW plugin at DigitalPoint one of the members asked about Category Archives and gave a new plugin to use. I took a look and couldn’t quite work out how to use it, so took the lessons from UTW and applied them! More »

December 7, 2005

Making Adsense Ads relevant on a blog

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

I received this email today from a blogspot user

Sarah, I’m hoping you have advice for me about my Blog. On my “homepage” Business & Technology Reinvention the adsense ads have low relevance to the content on the page. But when I open an individual post the adsense relevance is excellent (for example Winning Against Big R&D Spenders)

Given that most of my traffic comes to my home page I’m concerned that the low relevance ads dilute the focus of my Blog. Do you have any advice or suggestions to improve?

David

Google, via it’s MediaPartners bot and Googlebot, are very effective at reading a page, nutting out the essence of it and returning the correct ads.

They seem to have a blindspot, though, when it comes to blogs which use Blogger or Blogspot blogs - as these seem to attract more than their fair share of ads for other blogging systems. More »

October 26, 2005

Akismet saved my blog!

Posted by Sarah King in WordPress

I took a rare look at the dashboard of my WordPress blog and saw that Matt Mullenweg was looking for beta testers for a new spam blocking tool. I was getting hammered by spammers and they were driving me mad so I emailed him and found myself accepted.

Akismet is the end result of that beta testing - and it’s awesome. I’m actually getting less spam as a result at the spammers can see that their efforts are going nowhere! Phew. More »