Archive for March, 2006

Official Technorati popularity ranking

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Okay, I've claimed my blog.  Time to watch the Blog Republic sky-rocket to the top.  I'm sure it won't be overnight.  Heck, it may not even be this decade.  But with enough determination and enthusiam, it's only a matter of time. It looks like we might be adding a new Blogger ...

Values of blog networks

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

I was perusing the values of blogs as reported here, and I'm not sure how they're computing the values, but it appears to be mostly by adding the combined value of incoming links. The backlink totals are astounding in some cases, and make a great argument for teaming up with ...

Adding Wordpress Plugins

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

It's very easy to add plugins to WordPress, and a few of them are definitely essential. One I think is just great is the related links plugin. This will create a fulltext index on certain fields so that related links are automatically appended. This is nice for the random ...

Blog Republic spidered by Google

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Yes it's true. Blog Republic has already been spidered by Google, within 2 hours of purchasing the domain. Links from active websites really are the best way to get spidered quickly by Google. It will be interesting to see if there's any type of Sandbox effect, or maybe we'll be lucky ...

Blog Republic Banner

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Here's my first version of the Blog Republic banner. This should get us started. I added it to the footer on Web-Mastery.net and I'll begin adding it to the Blogs in Blog Republic.

Blog Republic: Birth of a CyberNation

Monday, March 13th, 2006

This is the initial post for the Blog Republic, an idea that was formulated on the fly at the Web-Mastery.net Webmaster Forum with the help of the administration there and the many loyal readers. Our goal is to found a thriving Blog Network which allows to work independently, but to ...