Monday, November 04, 2002

Radio Wish: When we use News Aggregation to post something about some other person weblog, I would like that person to have something that is LIKE the Referers directory that lists who all used your RSS feeds today to post something on their sites, commenting on your stuff, and when we click on the connections, we would see not just their site, but where they doing the commenting on us.  I would like this directory to NOT get wiped out at midnite, in which we would have access to a YESTERDAY directory of all the people who used RSS as basis of comment links to our stuff. This would not get people who accessed our site directly using copy shortcut.  What this does for me is several benefits: One, it automates polite notification of people that we used their stuff.  Two, we find out sooner about the links.  As it stands now, unless we post a comment or e-mail to other person site, the first they know about the quotation is when someone else links to their site from seeing what we said.  This would make for faster discovery of people who are interested in your stuff, and faster notification of any problems with our presentation. 11:43:41 PM

I have seen mention before of the importance of placing keywords on our web sites to tell search engines about the general content, but I ntever before had figured out where or how to insert this. I am skimming through the book Blog On by Todd Stauffer.  He addresses that issue by says that we need to dig into our HTML templates and add some metadata code, in which he gives specific examples: below head title of our site meta name keywords followed by content such as blog, exploring Radio Userland, comment on computer news, books  (which I think need to be names, very short things) meta name description followed by content in the form of a sentence list such as A weblog that comments on hot topics in the news, and explores how to work weblogging, through Radio Userland. Radio Question: I skimmed through my Radio Preferences trying to figure out where I am supposed to put this stuff.  I first thought HOME PAGE TEMPLATE but I not even saw the title of site there.  It is obviously working, so it must be arriving via a macro.  I am speculating that the meta name description is handled by our site description, and what I need are the keywords.  I was wondering if there is a preference where the only thing we enter in is list of keywords we want to supply to search engines.  Radio Wish  if I wrong about this = add a preference to do exactly that. 10:59:35 PM

Al Stories recently updated within the last couple weeks. A list = most heavily updated recently, in terms of volume of new stuff added to the story. Understand Radio News Aggregation After explaining the basics, I have links to other people documentation, and it is that latter section which has had a dramatic increase. B list = quite a bit of stuff added but not as much as on the A list Search Engine Tips Inspired by a recent question in our community, this story now has approx 20 portals or directories of key sites to register our weblogs, not counting the humongous collection of search engines.  Most of the 20 have working links.  You might want to print this story, then check off which weblog directories you already know about then for those that are new to you, check them off as you check them out. C list = several recent updates, but not as much as above - typically one or two sections added. Blog Books currently stand at a dozen, plus I have links to where you can find reviews Blog Software (directory - I think this is now over 100 - I not counted recently) Blog Software MT and RU Enhanced Radio Tools Most recent addition was in the area of new links to various places with commenting support. Understand Radio Referers This clarifies understanding of actual links vs. active links spam links referer links D list = almost trivial, such as adding one or two additional links. Blogs worth revisiting Etiquette On-Line Link Types Now up to a dozen different types demystified Radio Doc Sources Documentation Resources Understand Radio Categories Radio Start Aimed at Newbies Radio url number system I had intended to put posts like this in a format such that all the links working on categories, with me adding to the directory periodically, but a short cut experiment failed miserably.  I now thinking I will use a story that is as of some time frame, that has directory of links to my stories, with a little bit of info on each and some kind of list hash marks at the end ... currently I use a note pad with list of stories I recently worked on, then hash marks after title to show volume of updates ... A list has like 10 hash marks for example, since last time I shared this kind of directory. 9:54:54 PM

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