LinkListing Special: Blogging tools and information

Posted on January 11, 2007 - by John

LinkListing Special: Blogging tools and information

Stop spammers from using your contact form, I have had a huge problem with this lately, I have yet to install this but as far as I can tell it challenges the person to answer a simple question 2+2=4 before they can use the form. When I get a chance to install this Iâ€™ll update here to let you know what I think, looks good though.

If you have not used a feed reader before check out Google Reader, itâ€™s simple to use and you get all your blog and news fixes in one swoop, if your not sure what to add, check out my UK Newspaper Feeds page ( see sidebar).

How do you market your blog? It would be cool if someone (yes someone â€“ meaning not me) set up a system of Irish Bloggers interviewing other Irish bloggers, they donâ€™t have to be high profile bloggers or anything, just a bit of interesting fun really, Darren mentions this (interviewing)in the ProBlogger link above.

I noticed a lot of bloggers writing about the new Apple iPhone, but there may be a trademark issue problem. I have to say though this is the coolest phone I have ever seen, although we (Ireland) will probably have a long wait for it!

If you donâ€™t know what Google PR (Page Rank) is then this wont interest you, but it seems that Google have updated the system, pushing some older websites off the internet (as far as google is concerned anyway).

The December stats for wordpress.com (hosted wordpress accounts) and they seem impressiveâ€¦

What do you want to see in the next wordpress update (2.2 not 2.1) have your say!

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Doug Karr said:

Thanks for the mention for the WordPress Spam Plugin! Please let me know how you like it!

Thanks!
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cearta.ie » Blog Archive » Thanks for the advice said:

[...] As a blogging neophyte, I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve my blog both for you (my reader, if there is one), and for me. So, I want to thank John Ryan for today’s entry on blogging tools and information. [...]

Posted on January 11, 2007 - by John