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JDR-net introduces Quick Blog

JDRnet — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:13:37 +0000

Get your voice on the Internet! Blogging lets you post your thoughts and photos on the ‘Net and interact with your web site’s visitors. Whether you’re writing your own personal journal or looking to influence audiences, Quick Blog is the must-have blogging tool for you.

With Quick Blog, you’ll:

Publish your thoughts, opinions, comments or stories — anytime, day or night - even from your email with NEW! Mobile Blogging! Quick Blog even lets you have multiple authors and blogs! (Show Me)
Post photos, images or animations - create a truly personal blog site.
Get feedback and have conversations with visitors to your site. (Tell Me More)

So share family photos and stories, promote your business or industry, tell the world about your hobby, discuss politics or religion…with Quick Blog it’s all easy and all up to you!

Quick Blog is packed with everything you need to make your statement loud and clear-templates, tools…all of the features you see here, for one low price!

No banner advertisements.
Multiple Authors let others administer your blog.
Multiple Blogs let you set up as many blogs as you like.
50 customizable templates give your blog its own personal look. See a sample.
Image upload capabilities let you share your favorite photos and more.
RSS feeds let you share the contents of your blog across the Web.
Built-in tools help you maintain personal standards for appropriate content/language.
Email updates help you keep in touch with your visitors.

IP banning keep spammers and other troublesome visitors from harassing your blog.
Surveys to get a collective response from all your visitors.
Blog update notification service keeps your visitors informed of your latest posts.
Audio file upload puts your “voice” on your blog.
Site Statistics let you know how many people are reading your blog.
Hot Keys let administrators use repetitive phrases when replying to comments.
And loads of disk space–300MB–and bandwidth–15GB.

Click Here for more information about Quick Blog

What is RSS?

e-Reporter — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:01:51 +0000

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for sharing and distributing Web content. Using an RSS reader, you can view data feeds from various sources, such as E-Reports.net, including headlines, promotions, and links to full articles.

How do I access RSS?

RSS News Aggregators:

RSS/News Aggregators (also called Readers) will download and display RSS feeds for you. A number of free and commercial Aggregators are available for download. Many aggregators are separate, “stand-alone” programs; other services will let you add RSS feeds to a Web page.

Weblogs:

Another way many people use RSS feeds is by incorporating content into weblogs, or “blogs”. Blogs are web pages comprised of usually short, frequently updated items and web links. Blogging as a publishing tool is used for many purposes: traditional journalism, personal journals, group discussions around a topic, and many combinations in-between.

What are comments and trackbacks and how can I control them in my blog?

e-Reporter — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:46:11 +0000

Comments and trackbacks are features that are common to most blogging systems and software.

A comment is a reply or feedback that a reader can leave in response to an individual entry in your blog. When reading your blog, readers click the Comment button next to an entry to leave a reply or feedback for that entry. You can then write a comment in response to a reader’s comment, therefore creating a dialog between you and your readers. A trackback is a link from an entry in another blog or Web site to an entry in your blog. When reading your blog, readers can create a trackback (or link) to the individual entry in your blog from their blog or Web site. The trackback sends a ping from the originating site to your blog, to notify it that a link was created.

If you choose to, you can disallow comments and trackbacks in your blog. Otherwise, readers can leave comments regarding individual entries in your blog and can create trackbacks to entries in your blog.

If you opt to allow comments and trackbacks to your blog, the software’s Manage Comments page lists all of the comments for each entry in your blog and the Manage Trackbacks page lists all of the trackbacks for all entries in your blog.

From the Manage Comments page you can typically reply to, view, approve, or delete comments, ban IP addresses, or mark comments as SPAM. From the Manage Trackbacks page you can view, approve, edit, or delete trackbacks, ban IP addresses, or mark trackbacks as SPAM. Banning an IP address prevents people who are accessing your blog from that IP address from writing comments or creating trackbacks, respectively.

Normally, new comments and trackbacks are not automatically published to your blog. New comments or trackbacks made by others have a status of Pending Approval until you either approve them or mark them as SPAM. Comments that you author or trackbacks that you create have a status of Draft until you approve them.

How can a blog help you?

e-Reporter — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:19:57 +0000

Blogs are constantly creating new business opportunities. While some time ago blogs were almost an exclusive territory for non-professional bloggers sharing their thoughts, experiences and ideas, currently small and large business have a wide presence in the blogging world. There are a number of potential benefits of adding a blog as part of your marketing strategy or as a business model:

Blogs spread information: Blogs allow you to publish information instantly and frequently, and the conversational nature of blogs will help you spread that published information. Not only your visitors will read it, but also other blogs will reference your content through reviews, news, comments… and will link to your site, allowing other Internet users to access that given information. In addition, your blog can capture the attention of the media, which frequently uses the blogs for source material.
Blogs give you feedback: Most blogs allow readers to comment on your posts or link to them (and notify your site) on their own blogs. This is an automated mechanism that provides you instant feedback on any issue. You can know what your readers think of you (or your product/service/company) almost in real time.
Blogs build you a reputation: Always you provide useful and honest content, a business blog can help position you as an expert in your niche. Blogs can be considered as a platform for expressing your knowledge, expertise and experience, so they are a powerful tool for building you a solid reputation.
Blogs are marketing tools: Blogs are a useful and low-cost marketing tool as they improve the awareness of your product/service/company and strengthen the loyalty of your customers (readers). The word-of-mouth will provide you a way into audiences that couldn’t be reached efficiently in any other way.
Blogs are an easy content management system: The ease of use of blogs as a content management system (CMS) will allow you to forget the programming and the design of your web site and will also help you reduce costs. You can create your blog using free blog hosting services like Blogger or run free software like Wordpress on your own web hosting (preferable for business blogs). In both cases you can adapt the appearance of your blog through free professional-looking templates (themes). This makes creating and updating web sites faster, easier and cheaper then ever.
Blogs are search engine traffic generators: Lastly, search engines have been driving their efforts to reward rich-content sites, due to the great amount of poor-content sites built with the only purpose of generating revenue through advertising. As blogs are generally based on valuable and original content, they are especially appealing to search engines.The linking structure inherent in blogs is another determinant in the equation. As other blogs reference your web site articles, they will link to them. Moreover, comments and trackbacks frequently include a link back to the blogger’s site. Because incoming links are one of the most important ranking factors in major search engines, it’s obvious that blogs are great platforms to generate search engine traffic.

What is a blog?

e-Reporter — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:10:35 +0000

Though there are different approaches to weblogs, they can be defined as web sites where users post entries (news, articles…), updated frequently and normally reflecting the thoughts of the blog’s creator. Those entries (posts) are typically listed in reverse chronological order (the most recent entry on the top).

Most blogs allow visitors to leave their own comments on the diverse entries or even references from other blogs (trackbacks). This communication between different blogs and bloggers is one of the main factors involved in the fast growth of the so-called “blogosphere” (the whole community of blogs) and its current influence.