whos.amung.us is the best-known counter I know of. It can count how many people are online right now, and whos.amung.us can also tell you which posts those visitors are reading. Most importantly, whos.amung.us requires no registration and costs nothing. You don’t have to give them any information to use their service. URL: http://whos.amung.us/ ...
In this post, I’m going to teach you a strategy for building popularity: the small market strategy. What is the small market strategy? I’m sure you all know that for a blog to become well known, it needs good SEO, and its articles need to be good too! Many books about gaining popularity say you should write about hot keywords so people will read your posts. But that… isn’t necessarily right. If you understand how SEO works, you know that the more links a web page has, the higher it ranks in search engines. In other words, if your site doesn’t get many visitors, your articles won’t rank near the top. For example, suppose I write an article about Gmail right now. If you search for it in a search engine, you might find your article on page 2 or 3, or not at all. Even if it ranks on the first page, if the articles ahead of yours are all very similar to yours, ...
Haha~ Summer vacation is almost over. I’ve finally finished all the optimization work on the blog. I’m sure everyone has noticed that pages load faster now! ...
Feedburner is a very well-known website. Feedburner gives you a permanent RSS URL (until Feedburner shuts down, XD), and it also tracks statistics for the people who subscribe to your RSS feed, so you can see who is subscribed. You probably understand those last two features. But what is a permanent RSS URL? Here is an example. If you run your own blog, you probably move hosting from time to time. When you move, your RSS URL changes too. But if you use a Feedburner RSS URL, after you move you only need to update the settings on Feedburner’s side. Feedburner doesn’t have a Traditional Chinese version yet, so it may feel a little unfamiliar at first. Don’t worry, though, because I will show you how to create a permanent RSS URL. Note: Feedburner is now owned by Google, so you need a Google account to use its services. . URL: http://www.feedburner.com/ ...
Yesterday when I logged into 逐風者, I was surprised to find that WordPress 2.8.1 RC was already out. It’s only an RC release, but at least it’s better than a beta. This time it doesn’t add many features — it just brings the visual editor back from the dead (in 2.8 the visual editor would disappear). Other than that, I didn’t notice any particularly special updates. If you want to try it out, go download it now. ...
Today I’m going to teach you a handy little trick: the more tag. Anyone who has just set up WordPress has probably noticed that WordPress doesn’t have a built-in feature to display only a few lines of a post, so every post shows up in full on the homepage, which makes the homepage look pretty ugly. In fact, there is a way to insert a continue reading tag, and it’s built into WordPress. I have to admit, when I first started I used it as an <hr> tag XD Let’s take a look at what it does first! ...
dokoda offers a very special yet practical feature: it converts ordinary RSS feeds into full-text RSS. If you use a computer a lot, you probably know about RSS and subscribe to some feeds. If so, you’ll know that some sites don’t show their full articles in the RSS feed, to get people to visit the site. You have to click through to read the rest, which wastes a lot of time for people with slow connections. dokoda can convert those RSS feeds into full-text ones. Amazing, right! Now let Ting-feng show you around this site. ...
I’m sure you’re all curious about which websites contain links to your site! Here I’ll show you how to search with the link syntax. It’s a Google operator that lists the websites that link to your site, and note that the unit here is websites, not pages, so let Ting-feng walk you through this syntax! Syntax: link:URL Replace URL with your site's domain, without "http://"...
WordPress 2.8.1 Beta is out! But personally I don’t quite dare to try it yet, because after I installed 2.8 last time the visual editor disappeared and a whole bunch of other problems………….? Even though 2.8.1 is out this time, it’s only a beta, so it’s hard to say how stable it is I don’t want to waste time downgrading XD If you want to use it, go ahead and grab it! ...
Today I want to introduce a plugin called Subscribe To Comments. It can automatically tell commenters that their comment has been replied to, so they don’t have to come back and check for themselves. Subscribe To Comments was recommended to me by Brother Sausage, and since I think it’s pretty useful, I’m sharing it with everyone. Subscribe To Comments Info: Download: Xun6 | 4Shared | Box.net | WordPress Virus scan report: VirusTotal ...