Submit to the Top High Traffic Search Engines

The following list of search engines contains the URLs to each one’s site submission form. Guide notes to the non English language search engines follow the list. Think yourself lucky you’re not reading my first draft for this post. I planned to pen a good introduction to this short list of search engine submission URLs … Read more

Technorati Blog Claim Registration

This post is just to enable me to register JournalXtra with Technorati. If you wish to do the same for your own blog you will need to go to technorati.com, register a user account, register your blog then add the claim code Technorati emails to you into a new blog post – adding it to … Read more

Making Better HTML Table Borders

Big ugly table borders only work for people with fetishes about big ugly table borders. Of the fetishes I have, that is one I am glad to report I lack. I enjoy looking at thinly lined tables that are as neatly displayed as those one might draw on paper. You might not believe that while … Read more

Der Splog! An Experiment in Splogging

A few days ago I discovered two new WordPress plugins for autobloggers. One is a combined RSS feed aggregator and keyword auto tagger and the other is an auto trackback sender. Up to now the only autoblog, aka splogs, that I have created and managed used RSS aggregators and auto taggers to pull in content … Read more

Crafty Sitemap Building

The Sitemap is the Holy Grail of a website. It’s the sheet (or sheets) of xml that new webmasters don’t know to use and some experienced webmasters neglect to create. Consider that every website has a front, a back, a mouthpiece, a gang of security guards and a guide. Visitors see the front, the webmaster … Read more