Fine Tuning

I was about to feature some blogs about SEO but i can't seem to find the site that i once visited and added to mybloglog community, i know it's there somewhere. Oh bugger! i should have subscribe or at least booked marked it . I know it was a great site, loads of tips and tutorials on how to fine tune your sites and blogs for greater visibility and encourage traffic, tricks on how to get your site in a search engines listing and searches. A great material worth keeping.

Whewwww after spending hours scanning through my communities jumping from one site to the another i finally found the sites i was looking for, well not all of them i guess. I found a couple of sites worth checking out. The first site is that of Graywolf a guy who sure is howling on his stuff and his good at it too. The other one is a site authored by two SEO junkies Chris and Tamar the site is 10e20, you can find loads of useful SEO stuff here and professionally done as well.

I have yet to find the other sites. I'll post an update once i found them, in the meantime you could recommend an SEO site on your comments. I'll post it in my update once i checked it and find the site worth Shouting Out.

Keep on Blogging

Blogging to Fame

My friend antman left a message at mybloglog community. He has made a Shout Out about a blogger by the name of Divya Uttam and her blog entitled Blogging to Fame. Curious, i checked it out and found myself stuck into it and amassing as much info as i could. Her blog gives an extra edge to fellow bloggers of the ins and outs of blogging, tips and tricks that could encourage extra traffic to your blogs and sites. A blog worth visiting, and highly recommended to beginners as well as experienced bloggers. If i were to compare her blog to a bar of chocolate hers has an extra gram, a sort of a bonus worth biting =).

If only i have visited this blog days before, but since my connection has failed me again! and bloggers homepage is loading up like a lazy snail i don't have a choice but to keep myself busy and try time and time again to log in to blogger so that i could Shout her blog Out. Finally this afternoon i have overcome my log in problem and i must say that i fell so good about it. I hope im not that late though, cause i know its worth Shouting it out.

Cheers also to the following bloggers who have accepted and used brother antman's megaphone with the hope to level the playing field of exposure. Watch out for them, they may be buzzing around your work checking it out if its worth Shouting Out.

- Sizzlemash and his blogs sizzlemash blog and sizzlemash forum
- Soho Cheerleader and her blog SoHo CheerLeader
- Casey and her blog Celebrating Holidays Everyday
- cctech and his blog SEO Web design and Technology News
- Feed The Bull and his site Feed the Bull

Keep on blogging guys!

Free useful platform and ping service

I have 2 blogs being maintained, after each post i make i see to it that i ping every blog directory and RSS service i signed into to let them know that i made an update or a new post. For a couple of blogs i know its an ardous task to ping your blog and jumping from one site to another. What if you have more blogs, podcast or sites being maintained than i do? wouldn't it be more diffult?.

autopinger.com offers you an alternative to this problem. It's a free pinger service that allows you to ping known blogdirectories and feed services. Membership is free, and pinging services is free as well. After signing as a member you could start ping, just enter your blog or sites url. It has a real time ping window which show the actual ping response from the servers, it makes more sense than a success or failure response. It also has ping success rate beside each service which will tell you the success rate if you ping a certain service. Im a member of autopinger and using it since, fell free to check it out or better yet try it its free.

Another useful service that i have encountered is Mobile O/X. A free platform that allows you to access all your favorite sites simply by typing in your own personalized domain from any browser on any computer. Yes you heard me right you can make your own personalized domain and Mobile O/X offers it for free. If your not currently satisfied with your domain name or want to add a personalized touch to it i suggest you check out its free services.

For the Love of the Environment and Art

As you may have noticed, as wasn't able to post for the past few days. This is due to my snail like internet connection. Internet and other communication in the Philippines have not been restored to its optimum capability, im currently writing this post on a very irritating speed. Uploading a page, saving and publishing seems to take forever. I want to let brother antman know that I'm still here and not abandoned our quest to give exposure to fellow bloggers =).

Our featured blogger for this post has a passion for art, and not mention a noble quest in saving our forest. In her blog entitled Save Our Forest twinsherry discussed what is happening to the forest in Asia. She presented stats on the number of remaining forest on certain countries in Asia. One post discussed about China's plan to sacrifice rain forest to be used in the construction of its sports facilities for the 2006 Beijing Olympics.

A woman with a taste for art as well, in her other post entitled My Rainbow Cafe she featured digital arts, colored pencil drawings (my favorite), sketches, Chinese ink painting, collage and among others.

I personally recommend checking out her post, A beautiful woman with a taste for art and environment is truly a rare combination.

Blogger Hacks Galore

Lets start the new year by featuring bloggers who have broken through bloggers matrix and made hacks to be used in customizing its existing templates. As a blogger user i know how hard and frustating it is to make modifications to bloggers existing templates, especially if you want to incorporate something in your template but blogger does'nt have the tool.

Although Blogger has an amazing drag and drop interface, but still, you are limited to add page elements in three locations, at the top of your post, in you side bar and at the bottom of your post. Blogger has its own hacks posted at their Help Support Center, but its seems that some folks are not satisfied with these hacks, maybe thats the reason why there are some bloggers who are trying to hack though bloggers matrix to add additional hacks.

For their amazing contribution to the blogger community i'm making this Shout Out to the following bloggers:

• Vivek Sanghi @ stubborn-fanatic.blogspot.com - if you are looking for a compilation of blogger hacks you can find it here, vivek has a list of his own hacks and also links to other hacks.
• Deniz @ web-messengers.blogspot.com - his list of hacks includes 3 column templates for ThisWay, Rounders and Minima. Son of Motto and SandDollar templates hacks along with some Adsense hacks, though most of this hacks are made for blogger beta.
• Deepak @ blogger-hacked.blogspot.com - cool blog, you could see his hacks in action as he applied it in his blog, ajax labels and beta hacks are featured in his blog
• Loui$$ @ bloggingsecrets.blogspot.com - More beta hacks could be found in his blog including adsense beta hacks.
• Aditya @ lastword.blogspot.com - New blogger hacks done on the new version, extensive hacking and a cool blog as well.
• Ramani @ hackosphere.blogspot.com - Lots of new hacks for post, widgets and template, a must see blog checked it out.

There you go our six featured bloggers who have made a great contribution to their fellow bloggers. Keep up the good work guys. I hope to find new hacks in your blogs =)