I have just purchased two more domains for another two projects that have been incubating at the back of my head for quite some time now. So what I’m looking for NOW is a website template. Can anyone help me out on this?
I’d like a template that has the features of a website AND a blog. You know, I’m not looking for a blogging platform where posts are shown on the front page in reversed chronological order. I’m looking for a 2-in-1 template that has the space for a website banner (and preferably a logo) and a static portion on the front page (for stuff like “featured news, etc., that will be sitting on the front page until I changed it) as well as a dynamic portion (for updated stuff like “news”, works somewhat like a blog).
I think I’m confusing myself.
Anyway, does website templates have a “special name”? Because if they do, and I don’t know about it, I’ll take longer searching for them in the net.
If you haven’t heard of Search Engine Optimization, it’s time to spend more “quality” time on the internet. Especially so if you’d like to increase your page ranking and all. I never bothered to find out what SEO was all about a month ago, but when I started reading up about it, I find it quite easily digestible. And it helps (a lot) if you’re able to hunt down sites that provide rocket-science-explanations in simple easy-to-understand English 
So far, I’ve learned that the best way is to increase link popularity on your site is to understand the algorithm of Google. I have also read that Google’s algorithm is very complex, but I found a site that explained the “logic” behind it in laymen’s terms.
According to USWeb, there are many ways to increase link popularity and the main methods that most people explore are press release distribution, purchasing links from link brokers, trading links with other websites (reciprocal linking) and link baiting.
Press release distribution is the most effective way to increase link popularity but it is also the most difficult because the content of your release needs to be interesting enough for publications to want to write about it. Purchasing links from link brokers is easy and cost effective but you usually don’t receive the best quality of links. Reciprocal linking was once the best method to increase link popularity but now it provides very little value unless you aren’t trading links with the same websites and you only receive one-way links. Link baiting is also a very effective way to increase link popularity but is also extremely difficult to accomplish.
- USWeb
And, no cookies for guessing this correctly, the best way to increase link popularity is through blogs because blogs naturally are filled with valuable content that the search engines crave and they also naturally link to other websites they talk about within their posts. But receiving one link from one blog won’t do much to increase your ranking within Google for a certain keyword because you need links from hundreds or even thousands of blogs with the same concept before you will be able to see significant improvements in your rankings. And the best part is that this works for any keyword phrase you might be targeting but the more popular the phrase is the more links from different blogs you will need.
Now, these information aren’t too difficult to digest, are they?
The Weblog Tools Collection announced a Blogging Essay Competition in November last year to generate more interest in blogging. The initial deadline was 30 days from the day the competition was announced in Nov 13, but was later extended to January 14th, 2007.
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There are 25 entries and all the essays are archived in Weblog Tools Collection’s Blogging Essays category. I suggest you read those essays if:
- you are a new blogger;
- you would like to learn about CAPTCHAS;
- you want to know who bloggers are, why do they blog and what do they blog about;
- you would like to learn about things that you should avoid blogging about; or
- you would simply like to learn more about blogging.
Oh yea, Edrei (you know, the WordPress guy? The penguin guy?) wrote an essay entitled “So what if you have a blog?” - go read it, it’s good
