Matt Vapor’s Blog

Meg over at Dipping into the Blogpond has started the Australian Blogs Community at BUMPzee.

In Join an Australian Blogs Community on BUMPzee, Meg states that:

BUMPzee started out as a social networking site for affiliate marketing bloggers, but has grown to include a variety of other communities.

While MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog focus on individual blogs, BUMPzee is different.

BUMPzee allows like minded bloggers to join communities according to their interests, where the focus is on the community, not an individual blog.

For avid consumers of Aussie blogs, one of the real bonuses is that you can subscribe easily to an RSS feed for all the blogs that join the community, OR read entries via your BUMPzee reader (on the site).

You can vote for entries by “bump”ing them, see what’s popular, see what’s new, search for tags within the community, leave comments (aka discuss), messages and post events (once I work out how!). There’s an optional widget to display recent BUMPzee visitors, and a WordPress plugin… but these are by no means compulsory.

There are now a whole bunch of members after just one day, she has obviously started a great thing!

Signing up is pretty easy, just head over to the BUMPzee’s registration page, then once you have done that submit your blog’s RSS feed and then submit it to Australian Blogs… simple as

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I have finally convinced my wife to start a blog. You can view it here

http://sue.clickonline.org.au

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Phew, now I can remove my heart from my mouth. I thought I would upgrade my Blog from WordPress 2.1 to 2.2, and during the process I managed to delete my config file doh!

Anyway I just reedited the config file that come with WordPress 2.2 and I was back in business

I was very surprised how easy the upgrade was. I know the read me file says its easy to do, but with anything like this you do it with a great deal of skepticism.

Heres the steps from the read me file:

Upgrading from any previous WordPress to 2.2

1. Delete your old WP files, saving ones you’ve modified.
2. Upload the new files.
3. Point your browser to /url/to/upgrade.php.
4. You wanted more, perhaps? That’s it!

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The CLiCK Directory has now opened.  CLiCK Directory aims to give CLiCK Computer Recycling Clients an active list of links which will available as soon as their machines connect to the internet.

The directory is aimed at Personal and Non-profit websites which are happy to have our clients navigate to. All that we ask in return is for a reciprocal link pointing to CLiCK’s homepage http://www.clickonline.org.au

Visit the CLiCK Directory

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Just checked SEOmoz Page Strength Tool and my blog’s page strength has increased again to 4.5! YAY!

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Want to have an easy solution for a Sitemap for Google and other search engines for your WordPress Blog?

Check out Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress

It features:

• WordPress 2 compatible
• No PHP skills needed
• Has a user interface where you can customize all parameters like change frequencies, priorities etc.
• Available in fourteen languages
• Generates a static XML file in your Blog directory (Filename is customizable)
• Can generate a gzipped version of the sitemap
• Generates a sitemap for homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages
• Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments (You can also turn this off)
• The XML file gets automatically rebuilt if you change/edit/create/publish a post
• Tells Google automatically about changes via Google-Ping
• You can include external pages which aren’t generated by WordPress or are not recognized by this plugin
• You can define a minimum post priority, which will override the calculated value if it’s too low
• Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap

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Since I have started my blog some I have officially received 1,838 spam comments!

And thanks to Akismet Wordpress plug in it has caught every spam comment apart from one which i saw yesterday awaiting moderation.

Better yet check out Michael Arrington’s recommendation at TechCrunch where Akismet stopped over a Million Spam Comments!

This plug in is definitely a must for any Blogger using Wordpress!

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Thanks to the hard work of Meg keeping the Top 100 Australian Blogs Index, i have made the list!

It may be number 72, but that is fine with me

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