Setting multiple anchors in a blog post may show a problem.

The problem apparent is that it seems to jump out of the current post and out to the route page of the blog. There it sits…. Forever!

Contact with Kershnee at Yola Support resulted in a solution. It appears that the blog setup uses a "base ref" tag. Thus


An article reference that Kershnee gave me explained the effect of this:
Ref: http://www.ilikespam.com/blog/using-base-href-with-anc...
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The addition of images to blog posts is a great way of enhancing noticeability and particularly if you are using your blog to market and advertise products. A picture.......
The RSS facility associated with yola blogs transmits images faithfully and completely without degradation. It's a great feature.

There is another way also to add images to blog posts. This method allows automatic insertion in every post. It is only seen if someone clicks the post so there is no "fatigue" aspect of monotony...
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Is this a formal definition? Does duplication harm my site noticeability? Should I do something about it?

The same material published two or more times on the one website is at least duplication. A single small paragraph, statement or diagram is not considered a problem but entire articles, lists, extracts of tables are. Duplication hinders categorising websites for the sake of various indexation , ranking etc.

At the moment duplication is not doing any harm to your site. The strategies are bei...
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RSS has been promoted as the hands off method for subscribing to all feeds. It's a once only process and thereafter you don't need to do anyhting to keep it functioning. RSS subscription has been advocated for the last few years with the knowledge that it will become part of the status quo very quickly.

But there's a hold-up. People are not subscribing through RSS as much as presumed. The reason given is that it is too complex to set up. Many have tried to simplify the process and give good e...
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With the generosity of subscribers to Flickr for example who allow others to use their images free of charge, we users have a huge resource of excellent images at our finger tips.
The only requirement is compliance with the conditions of the CC license and attribution or referencing the creators work back to them somehow.

It maybe easiest to show the information that is associated with each CC licensed image and work from there.


 
This image has been taken from Flickr. I simply searched on "Japan...
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The variety and quality of images on Flickr is amazing. The search to find a topic or a specific field is now very accurate which is great for the person who wishes to use licensed copies for their own website.

I have found in many cases the quality of the images on Flickr is superior to the commercial royalty free sources. The images have a look of spontaneity and freshness. Generally there are at least a few to choose from and the selection of Creative Commons images is easy.

This really is ...
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Yola for example have an RSS chicklet available on any "blog" page and simply by clicking and dragging this chicklet onto your page, the RSS subscription button or chicklet is installed, configured and ready to go as soon as you re-publish (update) your site.

The chicklet supplied is a recommended standard RSS chicklet and is instantly recognisable. Fortunately the concentric three wave lines have been adopted by many RSS chicklet designers as the central theme for the myriad of cutomised icon...

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For the initiated it almost seems intuitive and a funny question t ask. For the vast majority of new users, subscribing to an RSS feed is confusing,frustrating and difficult to understand. 

It really is a round about process and poorly designed. Questions from a potential subscriber usually hit in two waves. "What is this RSS? "and "when I click the RSS button I get redirected back to the page" or "I can see a lot of unformatted text."

The process is not about to change in the immediate future ...
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Casey STUBBS has suggested that I add the Re-Tweet function as an option into the Comments section of the blog posts. It is a very wise and "on the mark" recommendation and I thank him for this.

So now we have a method for doing this also. The process is following on from the previous post and simply adding a couple of lines of script into the Settings section of the DISQUS enabled section.

The reference for the script is here: Tweetmeme Help.


There are a number of options which you can choose f...
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The facility for adding comments using the DISQUS feature also allows you to add extra HTML coding to each post if it's relevant to the process of the comment.

For instance I have installed the DIGG Submit and Vote button via this method. I have also added the pingback facility by placing the relevant code into the DISQUS Settings of the blog. The post is in this blog Installing the Pingback module into DISQUS enabled Yola blogs


Now there is a facility for adding CSS to the comments section of ...
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1.    Open the Trackback Wizard page
2.    Copy the lowest section (R click Copy or Ctrl+C) or copy it from here.
<a href="http://web.forret.com/tools/trackback.asp?title=<$BlogItemTitle$>&blog_name=<$BlogTitle$>">trackback</a>
 
3.    Open your Blog Manager
4.    Select the tab "Settings"
5.    Scroll down below the Disqus insertion code and create a couple of spare lines with your ENTER key.
6.    Paste the code previously copied. (indicated by the arrow)


7.    Highlight the field marked <Blog Titl...
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This is a diagramatic representation of the Trackback as it was originally developed by by SixApart, Mena & Ben the creators of the MovableType blog package.



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refbacks

The Refback is the third type of "linkback" described by Six Apart, . It's not commonly referred to but is a way of determining who is referring to your posts within their posts. Once again an automatic function and it doesn't require any input or contact by either the original writer or the referencing writer.

"A Refback is also a link.  In this case, however, Site A (link originator) does not need to "tell" anything to Site B (receptor). Instead, the receptor Site "discovers" this li...
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Subscribing to an RSS news feed.

RSS stands for "really simple syndication". A system that allows people to send information to the web without the need to deliver a specific email address.

Content of blogs and Web sites are often sent via an RSS feed by ordinary Web users.

You will see a small button like these somewhere on their page:

                                                                           

among thousands of others.

These are all the same thing. These Buttons are known by...
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People obtain their news like blogs by various channels. The bookmark "chicklets" that are so common are a guide to what people are using.
It's worthwhile syndicating your posts through a number of these appropriate syndicators as it may place your posts in the most interested groups rather than in a single amorphous pool. The steps are generally well explained on their sites and usually requires some initial registration. Subsequently the process of submitting your post can be done a number ...
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These Social Bookmarks seem to be increasing all the time. All these small buttons and badges are now becoming confusing. What are they and are they of any use to me?

It's all based on like minds and common interests. Forming communities on line or around the so called "blogosphere" who have an interest in the categories of stuff that they enjoy. One reader of course may have many interests and belong to a number of these social sites. It's simply a way to be informed and/or to be noticed. You...
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