The Online Marketing Banter Blog wrote a great post about the The Mass Graveyard of the Blogosphere, stating that: According to Technorati and PC Magazine, in 2007 the number stood at 200 million ... More research from Perseus on blogging abandonment behaviour found that 66% of blogs hadn’t been updated for two months. James goes […]
One of the more frustrating aspects of this business is the impression that blogging is so easy, developers can bang out blogs in a few days. We expect that this is because you can sign up for a free blog at WordPress.com or Blogger and get up and running in about 10 minutes. But if […]
The ContentRobot team has added another conference to our schedule - this time it's Web 2.0 Expo. We got an offer we couldn't refuse ... Free Expo Passes. You can, too! Just sign up with the sign discount code webny08emp211 and you'll also save $100 off the conference or get a free expo pass like […]
ContentRobot once had a favorite host that we recommended to all our clients: Pair Networks. They were reasonable ... wonderfully responsive ... easy to use ... Then ... A client's blog was partially down, meaning you could see the site content but not the theme or the CSS. What happened? Where was the warning email […]
Recently we extolled the virtues of WordPress's Media Manager and its relative ease to add images to your posts. After upgrading several client sites to WP 2.5/2.6, we must say in practice that there is still work to be done here. Our beef? WordPress relies on Flash to upload media. This means that you get […]
The ContentRobot team headed to Boston on Monday to attend the Affiliate Summit East 08 Conference - Shawn Collins and Missy Ward know how to put on a show. We had a great time meeting up with some friends, clients, and colleagues - and we even had time to make some new ones despite being […]
Custom Fields are great because they allow you to enter and display all types of information with your posts. We use that technique for quite a few of our clients. But if your site takes advantage of custom fields and you are still on WordPress 2.5 (or 2.5.1), you might have noticed a weird bug! […]
Our pals at FutureNow announced the availability of their newest book: Always Be Testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer. If you want more leads, sales, and profits from your website, then you need to test, test, test. Google Website Optimizer is all about testing, and this book shows you how to use that […]