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    The FourFourNiner Episode 2

    29/02/08 by Chris Garrett3 Comments

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    David and I are back to answer more bloggers questions! Episode 2 sees us tucking into Blog Networks, Expression Engine vs. Wordpress (with input from the legendary Andy Clarke), letting people post to your blog (and David shows us with a snazzy plugin).

    We’ve even got some out-takes right at the end!

     
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    The FourFourNiner: The Pilot

    11/02/08 by Chris Garrett11 Comments

    Digging deep to answer your blogging questions - the fourfourniner

    What do you get when you mix a professional blogger, a blog designer, Skype and some sound bytes from law & order? The FourFourNiner of course!

    David and I got together on Skype last week to answer all your questions about blogging and bring you the very first FourFourNiner. In this episode we cover all kinds of things, from SEO to relocating blogs and even how to get a job as a blogger. It’s an action packed 30 minutes and guess what… There’ll be more next week!

    Here are a few links which we mentioned in the show:

    and also thanks to everyone that supplied questions: Grant, Andrew, Titus Ferguson, and Kate Smith.

    Don’t forget, you can subscribe to the podcast RSS feed too.

     
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    What’s the deal with EntreCard?

    06/12/07 by Chris Garrett1 Comment

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    My good friend David Peralty has put up a great, and frank, review of Entrecard and why he won’t be using the service.

    Essentially, Entrecard is a service that allows bloggers to swap 125×125 banner ads with other bloggers, free advertising if you will. It seems very similar to BlogRush, only substituting the syndicated post titles for graphics.

    David hits the nail on the head when he says there are very few benefits. The banners aren’t indexable by so you won’t see any SEO benefits and because they rely on both Javascript AND Images, you lose a large chunk of your audience including blind people and users on a mobile, or any other non-javascript, platform.

    PS. While you’re over at XFEP, check out our sexy 125×125 banner advert in the left :)

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