Questions tagged [blog]
Blogs are journals made of dated entries and published on the web. Their name derives from the term "web log."
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SEO Tips and Tricks for web developers [duplicate]
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What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I know most of the Users of Stackoverflow would have knowledge about Search Engine Optimization(SEO).. ...
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Is it worthwhile to buy my domain name with many top level domains?
I'm creating a blog and I will purchase my own domain name. It will be a blog mainly, but I don't exclude to expand it later by adding other features (like an e-commerce platform , a module for ...
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What do Trackbacks and Pingbacks do?
My blog (running on dasBlog) supports pingbacks and trackbacks. What exactly are they, and do they provide any benefit to my blog (e.g. SEO, etc.)?
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What are some good feeds/blogs/twitter accounts to follow if I want to learn more about web development?
Who are some of the big names out there (besides Jeff Atwood/@codinghorror, of course) that I should be following as a resource if I want to stay on top of what's new as well commentary on what exists?...
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Where do blogs get their pictures?
I see a lot of blogs that are full of picture galleries, showing celebrities for example, and I wonder how they get all these pictures.
Do most blogs just take pictures from Google Images? Or is ...
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SEO Implications of blog on site versus offsite?
I recently added a blog to one of our company's websites, and was confident that this increase in content on the site would have only positive SEO results. My boss, however, feels that we should have ...
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“Read more” link bad or good for SEO?
I have seen that most bloggers are using "read more" as link text to posts on their home page that link to the full article or blog post. I understand that it's quite important for navigation of site. ...
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What is the most semantically correct structure of a blog page using HTML5 tags?
I'd like to grok the ultimate nature of <aside>, <section>, <article>.
What is the best, most semantically correct structure of a blog page using HTML5 tags?
Should I put the ...
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When is it time to move on from WordPress?
My company's blog it closing in on 30,000 posts and get around 1,000,000 visits a month. Things seem slow even though we have a good server.
At what point to you move on from WordPress or does it not ...
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Schema.org BlogPosting and image required
I am trying to mark a blog with schema.org metadata (using Microdata).
I have tested with the test tool at https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/ and I get an error saying:
...
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Posting old content on a new website. Which date to use?
I have been writing a sort of diary for quite some time (5 years) that I store locally on my computer. Now I have decided to make some if this content publicly available in the shape of a WordPress ...
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Disqus-like comment server
I'm looking at setting up a blog, and I think I want to go the static website compiler route, rather than the perhaps more conventional Wordpress route. I'm looking at using blogofile, but could use ...
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Strange incoming links appearing on site statistics
Last year, I started a small blog on wordpress.com. Most of my blog posts are about computational statistics.
When I look at the site stats, I've noticed a number of strange incoming links. Usually, ...
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Is using feedburner still a must for blog feeds?
I'm setting up a blog for my OSS/startup and I'm wondering whether using Feedburner for blog feeds is still the recommended way to go? Is there enough value in using Feedburner over just using the ...
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Company blog, host internally or not?
If I have a website for a company selling product(s). Is there any difference in terms of rewards/penalties from having a company blog hosted interally (for example mycompany.com/blog) or going ...
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Subdomain versus new domain
I'm adding a blog to a site. Would it be better for SEO to put it at blog.example.com or at www.exampleblog.com? I already own www.exampleblog.com .
Would combining the words together to exampleblog ...
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What is the best way to promote a programming blog? [closed]
(The guys from 'Programmers' referred me here...)
How do you promote your programming blog?
I recently started http://blackforestcoder.blogspot.com/ to record my progress working with new ...
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What are the good blog/rss feeds about SEO? [closed]
What are good blogs or RSS feeds about Search Engine Optimization ?
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Is it a bad idea to promote your site through relevant blog's by commenting?
I've searched the net and wasn't able to find a solid answer to this. Is it poor practice to seek out blogs that are related to your site, and post comments relevant to the particular blog post, in ...
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Is there a Content Management System that allows multiple & independent blogs to be running on one domain?
I am a Wordpress fan, and I'm now building a new site and I'm not sure which CMS can achieve what I'm trying to do.
I am building a food blog network for a bunch of cities in the US, and I want to ...
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What can we do to promote meaningful comments on our blog?
I am not so much worried about the inevitable spammers, but I would like to see more comments from people with something worthwhile to say. How can we entice them to talk?
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How To Move From WordPress To GitHub Pages?
I'm considering moving my blog, Dream In Tech, which is WordPress CMS running on my Rackspace Cloud Server, to GitHub Pages because I'm starting to have performance issues, but how to move the posts, ...
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Can adding a blog be an effective method for improving SEO?
It seems like these days everyone is preaching about adding a blog to your website to benefit your SEO, but just how effective is it? I know it will depend partly the on content etc. but with everyone ...
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SEO Implications of creating Niche Product Blogs vs Main Company Blog with Categories.
Our company has a dilemma that I am hoping the users of Pro WebMasters can help us with.
Right now as it stands we create a seperate website for each product that we sell.
We also have our corporate ...
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How do I tell blogger which image is the thumbnail to use in data:post.thumbnailUrl?
I recently started with blogger. I was tweaking the homepage a bit to display thumbnail and post excerpts with read more link.
A lot of websites say to use this kind of code:
<b:if cond='data:...
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Blog commenting for SEO, Good Or Bad?
Many people suggest and do follow the strategy of commenting on related niche blogs with links to their own sites. Is this legitimate and a good way for SEO? Or it has some harmful side as well?
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Does Google really care if your WordPress site has a “blog page” or not?
I'm developing a WP site with a blog. I want to show the blog posts by assigning "blog" as a parent category to all posts and using that category archive page to show the blog posts.
I would not use ...
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Image as a background for a website - good or bad?
Blogger has some quite awful templates to offer, but one way to make it look less terrible to the eye of a layman (me) is with this background picture:
Yet, I haven't seen many popular blogs that do ...
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WordPress security checklists on cPanel
I'm installing WordPress on a shared cPanel hosting for blogging. I'm planning to install it in a folder under public_html, that is, public_html/myblog. I am using WordPress application installer ...
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How to make Google consider subdomain as part of the main website in SEO?
I have a well ranked website on Google and Bing. In the last few months I've been feeding a blog for my webpage and now I'm trying to rank it on Google and Bing just like I did with my website.
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Schema.org 'CollectionPage' for list of blog posts by specific author
I'm trying to mark up a page and I'm trying to use CollectionPage with a number of blog links on the page. Would this be fine?
{
"@context":"http://schema.org/",
"@type":"CollectionPage",
"name"...
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Preserve and print a blog
When my daughter was born almost 5 years ago, we had the idea of posting various things about our lives, what she did as she was growing up, etc. The idea at the time was, when she's 18 we'll give ...
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Automatically generate and cut off the blog post preview texts from the full post text? Yes, no?
I run a blog with over 1000 posts that are only separated by tags, so each post can have multiple of those.
As it is mostly short news, videos and galleries, the description consists of 3-5 lines of ...
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Responsive website VS mobile website
I am creating a new blog. Nowadays, especially for a blog, it's important that the websites are accessible for all devices.
Now I have to make a choice on what to do. I have seen 2 options.
Option 1 ...
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SEO tips on changing blog pagination
Three years ago we launched a self-made blog area on our e-commerce website. Call it an experimental feature, if you know what I mean.
We had, and still have, a very minimalistic URL schema:
/blog/...
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As an affiliate, how do you know if a sale is made?
I want to start doing affiliate marketing on a blog.
Now I have someone who wants to advertise who has contacted me.
How do I know if he has made a sale to a user who came through my website?
Is ...
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How spam comment affect my blog and website rank?
I have already read many articles on how I can detect spam comments and prevent spamming.
But still I'm not satisfying with it, I just want to know how a spam comment can affect my blog and website ...
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How can I get bloggers to use my widget?
I have developed a widget that shows a story of a hike or an outdoor outing on a google map. Here is an example:
http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&...
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I've read many books and became an expert in a subject area - would it be a copyright infringement if I share my knowledge on my blog?
Let's say I've read many books and became an expert in a subject area. If I share my knowledge on my blog with details and start to earn some money, would I infringe upon the copyright of these book ...
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Should I use mixed content on my blog?
I have a blog. (just started) I am having a confusion whether I should keep the blog focused on only one subject (for instance, technology) or not?
If I post different posts on various topics (with ...
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Is using an external blogging platform and URL bad for SEO?
I want to add a blog to my website to update the user on the new features. The rest of the website is custom code and does not use any CMS. For the blog, I want to use something like Blogger and put ...
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Will Google punish me if I import a story from my own blog to content sharing sites such as Medium.com?
I've heard that Google punishes sites with duplicate content.
If I write an article on my blog then import it on Medium (basically a copy/paste) will Google regard it as a duplicate?
Medium.com is ...
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What URL should I use for my blog archives?
I'm starting a new blog and I have the ability to publish my archives (old post urls that will receive most of my search traffic) anywhere I choose without any repercussions. I've been taking some ...
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My domain PageRank shows as unavailable, why is that?
My domain, http://www.anovaordemmundial.com , has been snatched by some opportunist when I failed to renew the domain. I know, it's all my fault :/ . After I have being ripped off and bought my domain ...
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Should I remove rel next/prev from a single WordPress article?
First of all, this is not a question of 'how to remove', it's a question of 'should I remove'.
I've just noticed rel next and prev links on our single WordPress blogs. I'm not sure if they are new ...
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WordPress subcategories and SEO
I have questions about categories. Is it okay to have child (nested categories)?
For example:
Software Development
-- Web
---- Java Script
---- PHP
---- HTML 5
-- Low level
---- C
---- Assembly
...
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Can you be sued for using publicly used images on a blog without copyright permission?
Lets say I write a blog post about the new Batman movie or a the new Grand Theft Auto game and i decide to use the boxart/poster or a wallpaper as the main image for the blog post, can I be sued for ...
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Reciprocal links or text based links
I have a blog and I've found someone else who has a blog with the same subject as mine.
We want to do reciprocal links in the blogs.
I read in Wikipedia that reciprocal links aren't good for the ...
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Should I accept the outsiders blog content creators offerings?
It's become quite common to receive offers of blog-posts content for a dynamic website. Some of these offers are unrelated, and of-course shouldn't be published. However, I did get some related offers ...
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How effective is guest-blogging for SEO? [closed]
I was wondering how much time to devote to guest-blogging. It is pretty consuming and one person can only do a few per day max. And often you just get a link in the bottom of the post.
Is it really ...
