BlogCraving

When all else fails, do something crazy.

A guy actually built a site that lets people shoot paintballs at him live over the Internet. Real paintballs...not some goofy cyber paintballs.

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“Best of the Web” Goes Local

If you’ve ever tried to get your site listed in Best of the Web, you know it requires a bit of effort and often a peice of change. Well, BOTW just launched a local version of their directory, called BOTW Local.  The basic listing is free, so you might as well sign up for it. It allows [...]

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Increase Sociability Wordpress Plugin Trial Run

I was browsing ShoeMoney today, and I saw a post about a new (or maybe just newer) plugin called Increase Sociability. I had seen it in action before on the front end of a different website, but didn’t know that was what I was seeing. Basically, the idea is to plop a special line of text at [...]

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Does Your Site Make the Grade?

If you haven’t already been there, you need to check out websitegrader.com. Pop in your blog URL and the site will instantly crawl and score your site on a variety of metrics.  Some of them include meta tags, linkbacks, content evaluation, page rank, and a whole lot more. It can take a few minutes for the system [...]

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How to See What Google Sees in Your Site

Ever wonder what Google sees in your blog or website? Well, you can…to some extent. All you have to do is search for your stuff and see if it shows up right? Well that would probably take all day. So here’s how you get there a little faster. Let’s use iCastLimited.com as [...]

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ShareThis

Everyone seems to be into the snazzy little sharing buttons lately.  It’s one of the first addons people decided to put on their blogs after they are up and running. The theory is that adding these buttons will encourage people to bookmark and share your post with others if they think it is especially noteworthy.  Great [...]

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Have you thought about video blogging?

Gary Vaynerchuk, from WineLibraryTv.com sure did. Back when his family owned a small liquor store, he had the thought to not only grow his business, but draw it a cult following. Here he is in his own words. Watch, enjoy, and learn.

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How to Make Your Blog Load Faster

One of the biggest issues people come to us to solve is making their blog load faster. This is often the first challenge a growing blog faces. Eventually, your blog will become popular enough to necessitate upgrading your hosting plan. However, there’s a lot you can do to put that day off for quite [...]

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