Twitterfeed is something that I joined recently. Let me tell you a little about twitterfeed. Twitterfeed is a cool addon for twitter which checks your RSS feeds and put the latest posts on your twitter so your followers can read the blog post.

Twitterfeed also allows you to change the frequency of how often should the system check your feeds and publish the blog post. There are many other options such as prefixing the post and changing the display settings.

The only thing this addon requires is that you have an Open ID and a twitter account. Most of you already have an Open ID because you use alot of other services such as Technorati. I didn’t create another account, I just used my technorati account to verify.

I am posting once a day, therefore my blog feeds are set to be checked every 1 day. You should change it to whatever you like.

This is just another way you can use to add more exposure to your blog posts. I have already mentioned how much traffic I got from twitter since last month. The more followers you have, the better this tool is going to work for you.

Enjoy using it.

A few weeks back, I wrote about myself joining twitter. Well since the end of the month is coming along, I wanted to share my results on twitter. First of all, I did spend quiet some time on following people and kind of got tired after following over 20,000. But in result, I got over 900 people who are following me, and I recieved a good amount of traffic.

Here was my strategy:

I am not a famous person like shoemoney or johnchow, so not many people will just follow me. Therefore, I decided to follow everyone else. Someone will follow me. Maybe I won’t get a 100% return in the beginning, but sooner or later I will get enough followers. Well I spend a good amount of time following people, and then now I have left it alone. Each day, I get over 30 - 40 new followers. So My strategy seems to be working.

Now Twitter increases traffic to my site, but I like it as a tool also. First, I am sure people can just link to their post in all of their new entries, but that would be spamming the service. So I don’t post a link to balkhis alot, it is in the sidebar though under my website, so people visit through there.

In the past month twitter sent a good amount of people. Screen shot below:

Now I think that is a good amount of visitors. Now I got one designing contract from twitter, and have had some good conversions from just visitors to loyal readers. I think it is a good tool, but don’t spend too much time on it. Otherwise you will get addicted like me

If you aren’t at twitter, then get twitter. Also remember, sometimes twitter can outrank your own site. I have seen some examples where people pick their site’s name, and twitter rank higher. I picked balkhis the name, and I am hoping that google stays in my favor.

Anywayz good luck everyone this is my stats from twitter. I believe it is a good way to advertise your new products.

As you see, recently with the new design I have added an archives page in Balkhis. I had alot of people asking me the questions which I have already answered in my previous posts, so therefore I thought adding a page like that would help. Plus as I see from a users end on problogger, I like the archive page there. So in this post, I will be sharing how you can add an archive page to your wordpress blog.

First step is to open a new .php file, and name it blogarchive.php. Remember whatever you do, do not name the file archive.php because it will conflict with your database and not show the results correctly.

Second step, you want to do is give this page a template name, so it can have its own style. Copy and paste the codes below, this must be at the very top. Even above your include header codes.

<br /> <?php<br /> /*<br /> Template Name: ArchivePage</p> <p>*/<br /> ?></p> <p>

To watch a video how I did it you can refer back to my old post on How to create your own custom wordpress page?

Well once that is done, now you can add the design elements in your archive page. You can add By month, By Category, By Tags basically anything you want in there.

To give you some options check out the list below:

Show archives by month - <?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?>

Show archives by categories - <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

Show archives by tag - <?php wp_tag_cloud(’smallest=8&largest=12&unit=pt&number=30&format=list&order=RAND’); ?>

Show some of the recent posts - <?php get_archives(’postbypost’, ‘17′, ‘custom’, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’); ?>

Add a Search Bar you have the codes for that.

You can basically add anything that you like. For an example check out Balkhis Archive Page

Now linking to archives is creating duplicate content in the blog, as I mentioned in my post about Duplicate content, so what you need to do is get the most essential plugin for a wordpress blog called All in One SEO Pack and put the settings as I have shown in my post about All in one SEO Plugin, and make sure you check the Deindex Archives button.

Hopefully this will help some people who were looking to add an archive page in their wordpress blog.

Here is the Pimp My Blog Show for May 2008. Last month’s winner was Guru aka q4news on this blog. Due to the contest and other reasons, Guru and I couldn’t communicate well enough to get the design done, but It is done within the time limit that I set. Last month, Puneet’s VolCar Blog got pimped, and this month the lucky site that will be getting a completely pimped up wordpress design is:

Q4News.net

Guru asked for a theme that looks simple for his dad’s blog. He wanted the prominent color to be gold. Apparently I didn’t come up with what he wanted, but according to him, He liked this new idea in a different way. Once he said he likes it, I asked for his permission to begin coding. Then It took me a while to code it because I was very busy with personal matters as well as expanding Uzzz Productions and taking on more clients. The work was partially coded by one of Uzzz members.

I will not keep bugging you guys, so enjoy the video

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Wordpress just won’t stop eh. A month or so back they released their 2.5.1 Wordpress. Now they have released its Beta version 2.6.1. I got the email a while back, but I was very busy, so now that I have tried it. I am writing this post. To tell you the truth, the look of the newer version is pretty much the same. But there are new functions that are added.

Post Revisioning
A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
Built-in word counting in the post editor
The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
XML-RPC API for changing blog options
Better SSL support for the Admin
Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
The ability to relocate your content directory
The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
Customizable default avatars
Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
Check box range selection with shift-click
TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
jQuery UI 1.5
Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements

Well what are you waiting for. Simply get Wordpress 2.6.1 Beta Version Here.