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10 PR7 Directories: Submitting won’t hurt you!

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I don’t generally submit to a lot of online directories, figuring it isn’t so useful. But I just came across a list of 10 PR7 Directories on the main page. So if you are looking to build traffic and ranking, you may want to start with this basic list.

  1. http://www.blogcatalog.com/
  2. http://blogflux.com/
  3. http://www.blogpulse.com/index.html
  4. http://www.blogdigger.com/
  5. http://www.blogarama.com/
  6. http://www.blogrankings.com/
  7. http://www.bloghub.com/
  8. http://blogstreet.com/
  9. http://www.getblogs.com/
  10. http://portal.eatonweb.com/

So get submitting and let me know if it helps or not! Not recommended anymore.

Blogging: Is your blog ‘mobile’?

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Our business has been doing a lot of promotion activity recently with posters, videos, bloggings… When I made the first round of posters, I forgot to put the web address on the poster. It was only after the posters were distributed that I realized my mistake!

So I set about rectifying this mistake, by creating a small star bulletin with only the website address on it! As I was going around, I also thought to myself “Who’s going to try to memorize the address, run home and look it up on the Internet?” Not many. Since it was a poster, I figured there was no way to create a take away flyer and attach it. Still, I though “better to have it than not.”

Then light dawned. People would likely whip out their mobile and record it somehow there. Yes, then they might (if their mobile is WAP or G2.5+ enabled) even browse to the website while they are standing looking at it!

That’s when I remembered Alex King’s plugin:WP Mobile Edition.

A PDA friendly interface for your blog. It’s (almost) XHTML compliant. You can see it in action by visiting this site in a mobile browser.

It’s updated with the latest version 2.0 dated 2006-11-03.

Anyway, my business blog now is enabled for mobile blogging. I tested it using Opera v9.X which has a mobile view function for testing, and plenty of software for mobile users. I’ve attached the jpeg of the website, so you can see.

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 Tell me: is your blog ‘mobile’? How does it look on a mobile phone? Did you think it is important or not?

Wordpress 2.2.1 is out: Upgrading now is recommended!

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Well, having just finished upgrading to version 2.2.0, I’m now upgrading again to 2.2.1 just as soon as I can. Since there are some vulnerabilities with 2.2.0, you should consider this too! Now it’s much easier than before.Backup your posts via the backup tool. Turn all the plugins off. And (on my own host) click upgrade in the One-Click Installs section of your ! Voila! It’s easy.

WordPress 2.2.1 is now available.

2.2.1 is a bug fix release for the 2.2 series. Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning some small details. The result is a nicely polished 2.2.1 release. Here are some highlights.

  • Atom feed validation fixes (#4274, #4307, #4381, #4382)
  • XML-RPC fixes (#4314, #4329, #4315, #4469)
  • Widget backward compatibility fixes (#4275)
  • Widget layout fixes for IE7 (#4264, #4268)
  • Page and Text Widget improvements (#4302, #4259).

Unfortunately, 2.2.1 is not just a bug fix release. Some security issues came to light during 2.2.1 development, making 2.2.1 a required upgrade. 2.2.1 addresses the following vulnerabilities:

  • Remote shell injection in PHPMailer
  • Remote SQL injection in XML-RPC Discovered by Alexander Concha.
  • Unescaped attribute in default theme

So, if you are using Wordpress you should be getting ready to upgrade! It will fix many of the problems from 2.2.0!