In my ongoing quest to attract more visitors by trying out new traffic generating ideas, I came across an informative post with a great video about using trackbacks. I’ve been playing around with WordPress for quite awhile now and I have to admit I never understood what trackbacks even were and why people bothered. The [...]
I guess my title is a little redundant. Isn’t saying PunBB bulletin board a lot like saying ATM machine? Anyway, I found the PunBB software while visiting the forums of another script website I visit on occasion. I find a lot of great software this way. PunBB seems to have done it right for forum [...]
A press release is an announcement of something considered newsworthy by the submitter in hopes if it getting picked up by the media. If you’ve ever come across all those lists out there for best website traffic building ideas, I’m sure you’ve seen press releases mentioned in most of them. I was always under the [...]
PhpDug is an open source website script where users can post and share news, images, and videos. This software is another clone of the Digg website similar to Pligg which I’ve discussed briefly before. The only personal difference is I’ve actually installed and somewhat customized a site using Pligg, but not with PhpDug. With this [...]
While searching for new ideas on how to attract more visitors, I came across something called a blog carnival, yet I still am no exactly sure how it works. Despite my inability to wrap my head around the concept, I found a number of articles where people raved about how successful they are at bringing [...]
With my last theme I provided the options to subscribe to this sites RSS feed or to subscribe by email. While I would like to offer these options again, at some point I need to set something up so people can subscribe to an OpenSourceHack newsletter. I feel like I should probably decide which direction [...]
I checked on the status of my Technorati blog claim the other day only to find it was denied. I got this canned response that I’m sure some of you have already seen. Thank you for submitting your claim on Technorati.com. Unfortunately, we have determined that the site at this URL does not meet Technorati’s [...]
It’s true. Starting a blog is quite easy, but maintaining a blog long term is what separates those who talk about success and those who attain it. I really enjoy sitting in front of the computer trying new software because I’m an idea guy. I like to take a new piece of software and think [...]