Facebook are starting to let the search engines index the site, this can only mean the death of it.
Biggest swedish wordpress blog
The biggest swedish blog on wordpress is alla dessa dagar by the swedish foreign minister. It has gotten a lot of media time both inside and outside the blogosphere. Many argue that govermental affairs shouldn’t be publicly presented in a blog like this without much afterthought but at the whim of the moment. Other claim that this is an extraordinary idea that the swedes as the first people in the world get a good view of the political life and the state affairs.
What makes a “fastest growing blog”
What is it that decides if a blog is fastest growing on the wordpress dashboard? Is it just the amount of text that is put in to it? Is it increase in readers? Is it incoming links? Does anyonw know?
Expand your wordpress stats
The new improved stats for wordpress gives you the possibility to check out traffic on a more precise scale. To be exact it is now possible to click on a certain day to see the statistics for that day only. Nice to have.
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The something it does is take you to a page that shows the stats just for the day you clicked on so you can see your top referrers, posts, clicks, everything you see on the normal page, just expanded.
A few wordpress optimization tricks from Jim
Jim Westergren has presented a complete guide to WordPress SEO, you can find it here.
You can learn how to get your headings look good for Google and how to implement a fully automated sitemap.
Jim is a very prominent search engine optimizer and knows his way around wordpress. It can be really useful to follow his advice.
Poker is a hot topic today
The World series of poker has taken it’s toll on the wordpress bloggers. Here are som blogposts about Poker.
See footage from the wsop from YoutubeForEverything, unsteady handcam but anyway:
http://everydayyoutube.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/rainkhan-world-series-2007-main-event/
Most annoying session ever, read about the horrible struggles of blogger Chum of Chance:
http://chumofchance.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/most-annoying-session-ever/
From PokerLife:
http://pokerlife.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/played-around-300-hands-of-600nl-today-and-won/
Hot WordPress blogs
Have you ever taken time to consider the top blogs? Here is a small presentation of todays top blogs:
The CNN political ticker
Political news blog that claim to present the latest political news. Almost only american news though.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Vista raped me
Claim to like Microsoft but are unwilling to become “Microsofts bitch”.
Scobleizer
The personal opinions of Robert Scoble from PodTech.net. Pretty much about Google and Facebook lately.
A Hot Mess
About music and celebrity gossip.
http://ahotmess.wordpress.com/
Elizabeth Wong
Blog about Human rights.
http://elizabethwong.wordpress.com/
Suckykind.com
Straightforward humor blog
Cristiano Ronaldo
I’m sorry I can’t tell what it’s about, it’s in spanish,
WordPress blog in the spotlight
Blogging about web sites? Check out SpaceAge, a WP blog that does just that. Good web site reviews and in the future, I guess, product reviews. It is nicely written and has a few useful sites to tell about.
We need more ideas for blog in the spotlight, please tell us if you know about a blog that needs attention.
Interview with Matt Mullenweg from Akismet
Akismet is one of the best spamcatchers out there today and onWordPress has managed to get a few questions answered by Matt Mullenweg from Akismet.
In the end of 2005 Akismet started their mission to protect the blogosphere from spam and now they prevent more then 8 million spam comments every day. The success wasn’t unexpected to Matt since spam is always a threat. And we can guess that the success will continue especially if you believe Matts opinion that spamming will continue unless the economic incentives are removed.
When asked how much spam they manage to prevent the answer is,
For most folks we have accuracy rates of 99.99% or higher.
I know that I am happy for the protection Akismet gives.
Akismet is a contraction of Automattic Kismet. Our favorite definition of kismet is “Kismet (principle), the magnetic attractive force that actualizes the playing out of karma; often used in the positive sense.”
SEO resource for WordPress
One of the top search engine experts out there Jim Westergren has written a few tutorials on how you get the search engines to love your WordPress blog. We will return to these later.
