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I just installed a plugin called Crawl Rate Tracker which monitors the search engine spider visits to your blog. It has a nice graphing capability to let you see in a glance how many visits you are getting from the spiders and compare the trends over time. The bots being

Where To Get Ideas For Blog Posts

If you ever run out of ideas for blog posts, check out Lorelle's list of resources to help you spark some ideas. Bookmark it and keep it for your reference. One of the best things to keep your blog fresh is to post about top news stories. These get lots

SOBCON 2008 Update

I entered the SOBCON 2008 contest but according to the recent contest update it looks like there are less than 3 readers who clicked on to the event link to find out more about the conference. That is just plain sad. I can conclude either that there is no one

Deciding On A Blog Topic

Want to know what's hot and what's not? What are the products that people are searching for? A good place to start your research is Google's own shopping search tool called Froogle. It will show you in real time the searches that are being performed. For example, I just went

RT at Untwisted Vortex Needs Your Help

Update: 24 hours after word was out that RT needed help, bloggers helped to raise over $3,000. And RT was even contacted by SkyNews that wanted to do a story about this. It's not everyday that you can really do something tangible to help out a fellow blogger. If you haven't