One more time, vote for me please

I am truly sorry to keep writing to you, asking you to vote for me, but alas I am going to do it one more time.

I guess you can say it is the time of year for Blog Awards. What I am asking is that you vote for me in the Canadian Blog Awards by following this link: http://tinyurl.com/votekylewithagain. You can vote everyday and make sure to vote for Ykonline as well.

Now onto the local stuff. Megan is once again putting on the Best NWT Blogs and I nominated myself for a bunch of the categories (No I’m not arrogant, I had to nominate myself). YkOnline is also nominated for a bunch of categories. If you enjoy my writing either here or on YkOnline vote for me. You can only vote once, so make sure it counts. You can vote by going to Best NWT Blogs.

Thanks for the support.

Google Juice Addiction

I have to confess something. I am addicted to Google Juice. Google Juice can loosely be described as how well your site ranks with Google So I have to admit that often when I write posts for YkOnline, I sometimes write for Google, rather then my readers.

I mean I love my readers and I’m very happy that they continuously come back to see what is new, but sometimes some post are not directed toward my readers but more Google In hopes that I will find new readers. Some of these posts are “Yellowknife Food Prices” “Where to Rent” and some of the big news topics. Often I’m not informing my readers with unique news, because other news sources already have, but my hope is that Google Searchers will see my blog and at least check it out.

I am often very “smart” as to the tags I use in certain posts. If the post is about anything I know people will be searching for I will make sure the tags describe exactly that. Often some post will even be shaped around Google searches.

When you blog, is this something your think about?

Blog Posts on Static HTML Sites

A friend is looking at how to have his blog posts or snippets of the posts from his blog show up on his homepage which is a static html page.

I have found one way of doing this which involves the RSS feed. Most people use FeedBurner to maintain their RSS feed because it offers some many thing for customizing and promoting you feed. If you do not already use FeedBurner I suggest you check it out. It is very simple to set up, it is run by Google so you can use your Google account for it. Then all you have to do is set up a new feed by entering in your old one.

Once you have done that you want to click on the Publicize and then BuzzBoost, which is built into the feedburner site. BuzzBoost is the tool used to publish your posts on to your static page. You can change the settings to however you like and then activate or save it. It will then give you the code you need to use on your HTML page for the posts to show up.

Example:

Subscribe to RSS headline updates from:
Powered by FeedBurner

The script can be configure by you to the shape desired to fit where ever you need it to. I have the same script in both, above and in the sidebar(wont be in the sidebar forever)

That’s it, simple right? You are also able to delete the FeedBurner logo by simply taking it out of the script.