http://bloggingfornoobs.com White Hat Blogging in Black and White Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:03:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As promised two days ago I am releasing my edits and upgrades to Revolution Two's Code Blue Wordpress Theme as Blogging in Black and White.  My versions has extensive upgrades in the SEO and functionality, which may or may not have come with the paid version of this theme.  Here ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/wordpressthemes/black-white/ As my long time followers can tell there is a complete revamping of the theme around here.  This theme Blogging in Black and White is based on Revolution Two's Code Blue Theme.  I abandoned my old Rev theme in the realization that it was one too confusing for many nooby ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/what-is-a-blog/not-every-blog-needs-a-magazine-theme/ In my quest to provide an every better experience for all my readers I have added a new feature in the way of the WP Link Directory. This handy plugin allows site owners to make use of the constant flow of internet traffic. Whether you are actively promoting ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/plugins/wp-link-directory/ CommentLuv is great but since the recent round of upgrades they are harder to search for.Most people simply turn the plugin on and never bother with the setup screen which means the tell-tale search for "This blog is CommentLuv Enabled" no longer exists on most blogs. That is fine I ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/traffic-building/dofollow-list-for-11-5-2008/ By now you should know I am a big advocate of commenting on other blogs. Until just recently it was commenting on any blog that caught my fancy. I will still do that, but I have had a blogging epiphany. I was checking my comments this morning ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/what-is-blogging/where-should-i-comment/ As you may or may not have figured out blogs get a lot of comment spam no matter if you are nofollow, dofollow, moderating or not moderating comments, using human interface spam protection (captcha) or not.  That said there are a number of ways to reduce the amount of smap ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/spam/reduce-your-comment-spam/ In honor of my 250,000th unique visitor to The Other Blog I am proud to announce the release of my latest free wordpress theme, The Other Blog Lite.  This Adsense ready theme is a fixed 800 pixel width ready to display a good mix of advertising, featured posts, featured video ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/wordpressthemes/the-other-blog-lite/ As promised I have reopened and taken Blogging For Noobs off the market  after it sitting for sell for some time.  One of our new weekly features is a featured blog.  This week is Blogger Unleashed.  (Warning: if you think any of my blogs use strong language, Vic might be ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/blogging-basics/blogger-unleashed/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ikow_zEmLg] This is really yesterday's videopost that scribefire marked as a draft, so sorry for everyone expecting it yesterday.  Darren Rowse of Problogger is one of the best video bloggers about blogging around, on top of being one of the best sources overall about how to blog.  When dealing with other ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/video/branding-yourself/ Update - shift everything by a day forward for now.  We have some exciting things coming up at Blogging For Noobs, including a blogging article directory and our own digg style site devoted only to blogging articles. With proof enough for myself that I can still generate enough buzz to bring ... http://bloggingfornoobs.com/what-is-a-blog/back-to-business/