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SEO / SEM

Chasing a Dream is a Do Follow Blog

May 13, 2007

In checking out some of the ProBlogger Top 5 entries, I visited Susan Drigger’s Top 5 Sins post, and while there noticed a nice little icon, “No Nofollow, fight spam, not blogs” that reminded me to check the no follow status of my comments. Oops! WordPress strikes again… it was there! With the addition of [...]

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Set Your Writing Free with FreeMind

April 11, 2007

After I closed up shop last night and settled into bed after a long day’s drive, my brain was still running… and it made the connection from HitTail in my last post, to an Open Source project, FreeMind. FreeMind is a mind-mapping application. I was first introduced to these type sof application while persuing my [...]

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HitTail to Save Us from Writer’s Block

April 10, 2007

I’m writing from the road… on vacation in eastern North Carolina! Been driving most of the day…
I wanted to point out a very interesting new tool, HitTail, that I came across somewhere–somebody’s blog, but I can’t remember which! I’m going to have to start taking notes… If you haven’t head of the [...]

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What’s in a Ping?

April 8, 2007

While adding the sitemap code to Chasing a Dream, and my old website, I had to consider how the other sites were being notified that it was updated. This is called ‘Pinging’. Using ping-enabled blog software such as WordPress, when you complete a post and publish it, the software notifies other services that you have [...]

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Using Sitemaps for Improved SEO

April 8, 2007

While working on adding more statistic tracking tools to the site yesterday, I was also asking myself the question: How can I get better search engine results? Faster! I know it takes time for new sites to be discovered and included in Google and other search engines, but my domain, cdchase.com, is not new as [...]

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