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Bill Bolmeier
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billbolmeier.com is a personal technology blog which includes web technologies, social media, internet marketing, operating systems including Windows, Linux and Mac, technology news and anything else I find helpful and interesting.
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Joost on Automattic’s VideoPress
If you’re a blogger and would like to include video on your WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress.org blog, you might want to give Automattic’s VideoPress a try. You’ll need a WordPress.com account (Free) and VideoPress will cost ...
Blog Comment Policies
While writing about How to Stop Blog Comment Spam, I realized that all the comment policies I’ve read over the last couple years were starting to make sense. I’ve read a few and thought I’d start implementing a comments policy mys...
How to Stop Blog Comment Spam
One of my blogs was overwhelmed last week with quite a bit of comment spam. Luckily my host locked it down for me until I resolved the issue. Not too much fun when your site is shut down, but here are some remedies that will help you avoid your s...
How To Increase RSS Subscribers
If you’re a member of the social networking site FriendFeed, and you have your blog added to your FriendFeed services, and you have your RSS subscribers through FeedBurner, then you just increased your RSS subscriber count. I was pleasantly surpris...
Blog Stats for April 2009
Here are my blog stats for April 2009. I haven’t posted anything at this blog since April 6. But the stats for April are a good example of traffic going up when you’re not even posting to your blog. Google’s search engine starts ...
Blog Stats for March 2009
Here are my blog stats for March 2009. Goals and Expectations I continue to “almost” write an article a day. In March I fell of the daily post wagon. My traffic is questionable and the balance between search engine traffic, referral t...
Blog Stats for February 2009
These are my blog stats for February 2009. Goals and Expectations I continue to write an article a day and my traffic numbers are going up and staying fairly balanced between search engine traffic, referral traffic and direct traffic. My Bounce Rate ...
Creating a Social Network Landing Page for Your Blog
One way to drive traffic to your blog is to become a member of a social networking site or forum and participate in the discussions at those sites. Most networking and forum sites have a profile area or allow you to have a signature where you can pro...
How to Increase RSS Subscribers
As I continue to increase the RSS subscribers to my blog, I came up with proven ways to increase your RSS subscribers. So, here are 11 ways to increase you RSS subscribers to your blog: 1. This one is not a surprise - write great content. What...
3 Blog Traffic Building Tips - Part 1
When you start a new blog, there are steps you can take to help drive traffic to your blog. Traffic is people visiting your blog. If you’re blogging for reasons other than sharing news with family and friends, then this is important. Here a...
Darren Rowse of Problogger - A Video Interview
In this 16-minute video from the guys at Blogopolis Blueprint, Darren Rowse shares some thoughts about making blog posts better and blogging in general. Related Posts:Love Train - Great Way To Start The DayThe Palm Pre Smart PhoneBlog Titles and Des...
Short Posts or Long Posts?
Darren Rowse of Problogger asks questions of his readers and has consistently placed polls on his blog. He’s used his Problogger blog as well as his Twitter tweets to asks various questions. So for this blog post I have one question for folks...
Blog Stats for January 2009
I registered the name billbolmeier.com in November, 2008 and made a couple of posts. I started blogging in January 2009 with the intention of writing 2-3 articles per week but I took a liking to writing, so I wrote an article a day. Goals and Expect...
3 Blog Editors to Help You Write
If you’re writing blog posts in the WordPress editor and you’re not fond of it for any reason, here are 3 blog editors that work very well as alternatives. 1. Windows Live Writer Windows Live Writer is a nicely built piece of software fro...
3 Tips to Help You Write Better
When you first start writing for your blog, a lot of thoughts go through your mind about writing, like: “What am I going to write?” “What time of the day am I going to write?” “Should I set time to write?” “...
Six Blog Traffic Tracking Tools
When you start a blog or create a website, you want some way to track your blog’s traffic and statistics so you can see how things are progressing compared to your expectations. Based on what you find buried in your stats, you can take steps t...
Working with WordPress
For those who don’t know, WordPress is a blogging platform that I talked about in Starting a Blog. Blogging consists of writing posts that are listed in chronological order from newest to oldest. This can include posts on family life, review...
Subscribing to Blogs
You’ve seen them all over the place on the web. The little orange icon with stripes through it. One looks like this: If you don’t know what they are, they represent a way for readers of a blog (or any other website) to subscribe so th...
Starting a Blog
A blog is a type of website. A blog typically lists articles or blog posts as they’re called in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest). You can pick any topic to blog about that you’d like. It may be a personal blog that you upd...
