Started New Technology Blog. Are We Missing Anything Vital?

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by jvfconsulting, Aug 22, 2008.

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    We launched a new technology blog on our main website and we would like the pros to take a look to see if we missed anything vital out. This blog is utilizing software that we wrote for our CMS package. This is dofollow so your post will count as a backlink! We look forward to approving comments quickly!

    Technology Blog
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/blog
     
    jvfconsulting, Aug 22, 2008 IP
  2. Dodger

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    Well one minor thing is missing? You have no feed! Is that something vital?
     
    Dodger, Aug 23, 2008 IP
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    Good spot Dodger.
     
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    Good call Dodger! You gave me something to work on today=)
     
    jvfconsulting, Aug 25, 2008 IP
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    We just pushed out the RSS feed a few minutes ago. There is now a link on the right nav pointing to this url
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/blog?feed=rss2

    Anything else we're missing that's vital to becoming a successful blog?
     
    jvfconsulting, Aug 25, 2008 IP
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    Not a huge deal, but adding this to your header will allow browsers to automatically identify the RSS feed:

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.jvfconsulting.com/blog?feed=rss2" />

    The location doesn't matter, just somewhere between the <head></head> tags.
     
    mramige, Aug 25, 2008 IP
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    Good call mramige! I will update this now. Thanks for all your help with this!
     
    jvfconsulting, Aug 25, 2008 IP
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    I just took your advice mramige and entered the above string in the html of the blog site. If you could double check to make sure I did it correct that would be fantastic! Thanks for all your help.
     
    jvfconsulting, Aug 25, 2008 IP
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    At some point, you may want to get listed in Technorati. Which means you will have to set up a routine that will ping them or another service like Pingomatic automatically when you make a post to the blog.

    Also submit your blog to larger directories such as BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog and Bumpzee.
     
    Dodger, Aug 25, 2008 IP