Ron Davies

iPhone continues to dazzle as Blackberry’s “abacus” leaves much to be desired for the habitual or professional WordPress blogger.

Do you have a WordPress blog that you would like to keep updated while on the train, riding as a passenger in a car, or just sitting on Starbucks warming up with a cafe latte?

If you use iPhone, you are indeed in luck. iPhone continues to reward those that avoided or left the “crackberry” for the real McCoy, at least as far as power, flexibility, ease of use and breadth of applications and speed are concerned

Just click the iTunes icon on your iPhone, hit “Search” and type “WordPress” and you will immediately be rewarded by a whole selection of instantly installable iPhone Apps made just for managing your WordPress blogs.

The onebi am authoring this post on is free, and I look after 6 blogs with it, all without cracking my notebook open.

If you love to “work it” as far as your WordPress blog is concerned, this is the way to go!

You need only go install the (probably free) iPhone App, and log in to your blog ad an Admin, and under “Settings” go to “Writing” and enable the check box for “xmlrpc”.

That’s all there is to it! You are blogging anywhere, any time.

To do this on Blackberry, simply return it to your local cell phone shop, and get an iPhone.

It will be the best thing you do for youself this year!

Cheers!

Here is another great video on the topic of Web 2.0 done by the clever people at CommonCraft.

This video does a very good job of explaining why social networking sites are so popular. We think one reason is because they help to solve a real world problem.

Cheers,

This post is really about an ex black-hat magician opening his book of tricks for you to take a peek.

The simple line of code I have shown below can be used to edit any web page on any website anywhere in the world -with a catch…

It only edits the page you see, and not the actual website as seen by others visiting that site.

What is the point of this?

Watch the video to see how cheats use this code to falsify documents, income earnings statements, Clickbank transaction pages, PayPal statements, you name it.

You need a current web browser, but other than that it works in both IE and Firefox.

OK, so how do you use it? Visit any web page. When the page has loaded fully, past this into the browser address bar and hit “Enter” key on your keyboard:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Next, select an area of text as you would in MS Word, etc, and start typing, editing, etc.

What the hackers or cheats would then do is click the “Print Screen” button, or on many keyboards the “Prt Scr” button, then open MS Paint, Photoshop, or whatever imaging program you like, create a new image, and hit “CTRL-V” to paste this falsified web page image into the document.

Very scary huh? It is frightening to think what damage people have done with this.

The one I see very frequently is the falsifying of Clickbank income statements, PayPal sales statements, etc.

Cheers,

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Let’s face it; it’s hard enough to get quality traffic to our blogs, the last thing we want to do is lose the opportunity to create a repeat visitor.

In the blogs I am asked to review, I often surprise the blog owners with questions they seem to feel are irrelevant, at least until I have improve their understanding of what makes blog visitors tick.

Most blog owners figure I am going to take a look at their themes, layouts, seo, plugins used, etc., and from there make recommendations on how they might improve the blog. The fact is I don’t even look at the blog until a dozen or so very important questions are answered.

One of the most important is “How do you respond to commenters, and how long does it take to approve and respond to their comments?”

To my surprise, at least when I was just getting into helping others optimize their blog performance from a revenue perspective, is how many bloggers either;

• approved comments daily and never responded to the commenter directly (I am often told they are too busy to respond to commenters, again, amazing to me); or
• they don’t moderate comments at all – a really big and dangerous no-no;
• approved comments and responded with a canned response like “thank you for your comment, we will get back to you as soon as possible” and then never actually get back to them (how would this make you feel as a commenter?); or
• responded to comments more or less sporadically, when they have the time, or when they happen to drop by the blog. (A really big problem with corporate type blogs where there often seems to be some confusion as to whom is responsible for responding to comments on the blog)

Now, we cannot and will not get into the business of isolating or selecting the right person to look after the corporate blog here, but want I do want to look at is a tool that can do a number of things for your blog comments including;

• let you know when there is a new comment without using email or actually visiting the blog; plus
• allow more professional and immediate responses to posted comments;

This little gizmo is called (take a big breath..)  “WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier” by the good folks at “HowToGeek.com”

It consists of two parts that work together;

1. a standard WordPress “plugin” that is uploaded to your blog‘s /wp-content/plugins directory; and
2. a desktop application that sits in your PC or notebook tray area.

The plug portion has no configuration required other than to upload it and “activate” it as you would any WP plugin. The little desktop application is easily configured by telling a few things including:

1. the web address of your blog;
2. your admin username and password for the blog; and
3. how often you would like it to check your blog for new comments.

In other words, it is very easy to set up.

Now, to use it you do…nothing. As long as you have the app running in your tray, it will do all the work. When it checks your blog (this all happens in the background and is invisible other than the little WordPress logo icon in your tray) and finds no nw comments, nothing happens.

But, when it checks your blog and finds that there is a new comment, the little WP logo in the tray changes to a red notification icon, and a little box slides up from the bottom of your screen telling you there is a new comment.

Simply click on the link in the little box, and you are taken directly to the comment to approve, deletes, spam, or otherwise moderate it.

Too easy right?

I am going to do a little video for this shortly but it is incredibly easy to use.

Get the WordPress Comment Moderation Notifier for your blog, and start doing a better job of managing comments, and responding to your commenters.

They will reward you by coming to your site more often, if for no other reason that  because you are more responsive to them than your competitors :>)

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