Tag Archives: Blogger

Phoenix Reborn?

It most definitely was a Blizzardish soon, but there we go. A new post after a semester-long hiatus. So, what happened to Altitis? Real life, that’s what happened. While I don’t want to dwell on things too much (or turn … Continue reading

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SEO Basics for the WoW Blogger

Following Yashima’s mishap with one of the scumbag gold-selling splogs we all hate, it struck me that some WoW Bloggers may have little notions on how to improve their search engine visibility. This post will be focused on self-hosted WordPress … Continue reading

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Gravatars (Finally) Enabled, and Plugging the NOFF Plugin

I finally managed to take the time and add Gravatar support to Altitis. Continue reading

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Blogosphere Highlights

At one point in time, my blogroll started to become so laden that I simply stopped advertising any additions and entered silent mode.
Still, from time to time, it’s definitely worth going back to some of these blogs and reviewing what they provide. Continue reading

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Blogging: A few Pointers on Copyrights

This post can also be found on Blog Azeroth. You blog, you write, and therefore you produce Intellectual Property, which is copyrighted. How does it work in practice? Let’s find out. Mandatory Disclaimer I am not a lawyer. This post … Continue reading

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Gold Spam in the Blogger part of the WoW Blogosphere

Within 24 hours, several of our blogging peers have reported being hit by gold ads in their comments, and have therefore tightened the requirements for commenting. Unfortunately, where Gmail shines with its rather strong antispam mechanisms, Blogger currently has little … Continue reading

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Catching up

This morning my Technorati rank finally caught up with the one on my old blogspot blog before moving to self-hosted WordPress. Technorati had some technical issues for a couple of weeks which didn’t help either, and while I’m not too … Continue reading

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From Blogger to WordPress: One Gotcha

Reviewing where I stand after the initial awe of discovery has died down, there’s one thing I’ve missed when I moved from Blogger: images. Indeed, the importing process will get all your posts and comments off blogger without issues, but … Continue reading

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Blast it, Blogger! Get your posting dates in order!

Dear blog host, When I start writing a post and then leave it as a draft for a day or two, post other stuff in the meantime, then re-edit my draft and finally publish it, by default, the post’s timestamp … Continue reading

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