Category Archives: Blogging Helpers

Typepad hint

May 18, 2005 – 9:26 pm

This might even apply to others who have internal stats, too. Some folks may remember me whining about my internal stats not working, those being hit counter and referrers. Been happening since January. Have tried everything (almost), and Typepad help was stumped (I apologize for some nasty words to them.) But, finally, I figured out […]

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Blog stuff

May 3, 2005 – 10:07 pm

While we are on the subject of How To Blog, let me add a few things. First, you may have noticed folks with strange Truth Laid Bear things, like mine which says I am a "Large Mammal with a Light Saber." How do you do that? SImple. Use a code like this: I am a<br […]

By William Teach 11 Comments

Site Search Functionality

May 1, 2005 – 10:53 pm

Basil has a series going on Learning To Blog. He is on Part VI: Site Search. Just wanted to chip in my 2 gold dubloons, and add a little bit. Also, you can visit Harvey,who really isn’t a Bad Example, and whose posts helped me alot when I first started. This is the code that […]

By William Teach 5 Comments

A Typepad Hint

March 4, 2005 – 4:24 pm

Do not change your archives from Day/Week to Week/Month. I did this, and it totally fragged me in regards to visits from Google, Yahoo, etc. None of my individual posts would show in the search engines. Only the weekly and monthly archives. Don’t do it!

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Cool Blog Trick

February 2, 2005 – 11:27 pm

Found some very interesting tricks today, while searching for a redirect code. When I domain map to the new address (thepiratescove.us), I want make the current address, which will still work, shift to the new one. That’s a story for a later date. However, courtesy of Learning Moveable Type, I found a cool trick, which […]

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Favicons!!!!!!!!!!!

January 21, 2005 – 6:02 pm

Some interesting stuff. I had stopped by American Warmonger this afternoon (using IE), and saw a discussion of him using a favicon. So, I checked up on it, since I had previously thought you could only do it if you owned a domain name. WRONG. It is actually incredibly simple. What is a favicon? See […]

By William Teach 10 Comments

Reciprical Trackbacks

December 9, 2004 – 9:56 pm

Here is an interesting article from the Commissar regarding trackbacks, ran across it while persuing the Showcase. For me, being in the top 1000 is pretty nice. With the whole issue with the TTLB Ecosystem database, I lost about 100 or so links, including 17 well earned links for the Guardian Story, which I actually […]

By William Teach 4 Comments

Link Pop Ups

December 5, 2004 – 3:09 pm

Some info some of you know, some of you may not. I had a friend of a friend (who still hasn’t sent me the name of her blog, though, I think that is because she is vast left wing, and doesn’t want me trolling :o) ) ask me who I get most of my links […]

By William Teach 4 Comments

Bumping that Traffic Up

October 24, 2004 – 9:42 am

I had read a good article by Bad Example about bumping ones traffic up about a month ago or so, when was checking the Showcase for new blogs. Definately worth a perusal. Me, I have only been blogging since July 2004, so I felt it was helpful. If you are new, submit a post. Alot […]

By William Teach 5 Comments
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