bundublog.com - Designing your blog

Hiya bundubloggers

Designing your blog is a fairly easy process on bundublog.com, but keep this in mind;

“Keep it simple stupid”

1. Change the default theme.
2. Blog must load fast, clean-out slow Ads or links.
3. Design a custom header, why not use gimp.org and simply change the default image.
4. Change theme’s every now and then, keep things fresh.
5. Utilize the CMS theme’s for a corporate style look!

I have just uploaded a microblogging theme called “Prologue”, it is a theme inspired by Twitter - Go check it out under “Design” then “Themes”.

Until next month

The bundublog.com team

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bundublog.com - IMPROVING YOUR BLOG RANKING

Good Day bundubloggers

Our 2009 newsletters are going to be a series of how-to’s in blogging.

1) IMPROVING YOUR BLOG RANKING

Google PageRank measures the “importance of information” on the web.
To improve your ranking involves many countless hours of work, below are a few easy steps to improve your blog PageRank;

1. Install the Alexa Toolbar, there is a direct relation to your Alexa ranking and how Google ranks your pages. (Install from http://www.alexa.com/site/download)

2. Improve your backlinks!, backlinks are links from other websites to yours.
How to do this?
2a. Comment on other blogs often, especially blogs that have a High PageRank.
How to find blogs with a high PageRank?
2b. Go to Digg.com and search for the Top blogs in the last 30 days.  http://digg.com/all/popular/30days)

3. Blog often, with original content and content that is relevant to your blog.

4. Register and Submit your posts to social bookmarking sites often! It is common to receive over 100k hits if you reach the front page of digg.com
4a. Social Bookmarking sites;
 http://www.Digg.com
 http://www.technorati.com
 http://delicious.com
 http://www.muti.co.za

5. Register your rss feed with blog aggregators, RSS advertising will automatically submit your feed (All your posts) to an Rss Aggregator that will publish your content, improving your PageRank and visibility!
5a. Blog Aggregators
 http://www.afrigator.com
 http://amatomu.com
How to find your blog feed?
5b. http://blogname.bundublog.com/feed

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Advertise on bundublog.com

We have introduced advertising on bundublog.com.

It is easy to setup, far reaching, helps with SEO and backlinks to your current website, increasing your Google PageRank.

Setup is easy and so is payment, which is done through Paypal.

Give it a try!, visit bundublog.com for more information.

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Happy Festive Season

Happy Festive Season

I just want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your
support in the past year on bundublog.com.

There were many enhancements in the blogsphere in 2008, let’s wait
and see how exciting 2009 will be!

Have a great Christmas and New Year, keep safe and keep blogging.

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” by Mahatma Ghandi

Best Regards
Gordon Bishop
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Unplanned Downtime

Dear bundubloggers

Apologies for the unplanned downtime today. Our Service Provider was moving our VPS to a new server. We obviously ran into a couple of issues along the way and it took a while to solve!!

All is back to normal now!! - Happy Blogging

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bundublog Talk Dec08

This year has flown bye and bundublog.com is a year old!

We have increased our membership many fold, with your support we will reach the stars!

November we introduced 3 great themes, WPMU themes that can be edited with no coding experience required - not an easy feat, but bundubloggers have them!

Ad-Sharing is a new concept on bundublog.com, it allows ADS to be shown before or after your blog content, maximizing revenue for your blog.

Go crazy, have fun and enjoy the festive season.

Keep well and keep blogging - bundublog.com

Take a look here and here

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New CMS Theme - WPMU Triden

CMS themes in WPMU, a revolution! All bundubloggers can enjoy this theme with all customizable options and have no experience in coding websites… great work wpmudev.org

From wpmudev.org “WPMU Triden is another of our powerful CMS themes that incorporate a massive amount of flexibility and customization, without a single code edit being required.

What’s more, it’s a perfect CMS homepage theme for WPMU as it’s triple grid system (all completely widgetized) allows you or your users to simply customize and brand a front page in a matter of minutes, and you don’t need to go near a category or custom field :)

For example, it’s simple to customize backgrounds (insert images or choose colours) and other meta elements:

Or decide whether or not you want a custom image header, and how large you’d like it to be:

And that’s just the start - this theme also incorporates in built RSS tabs, featured video options and the option to use it as a homepage or as a blog page - with or without social elements.”

Options that can be modified;

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New CMS Theme - WPMU Nelo

WPMU themes have entered a new arena. Wpmudev.org have developed a great collection of CMS based themes.

From wpmudev.org “WPMU Nelo is the flagship of our customizable CMS themes - it’s got the same powerful features that Dixi and Triden have, with a bit more besides!

And what is that special sauce…. well, the ability not only to configure almost every option of the theme from font (size, style, color), to colors (background, navigation, links) and a fair bit more besides… but it also allows you to simply edit all of the images that you see below by simple upload and crop!

It’s that simple - no custom fields, no messing with categories, literally anyone can do it.”

Some modify able options;

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New CMS Theme - WPMU Dixi

A revolution for WPMU themes, wpmudev.org have outdone themeselves with this CMS based theme.

from wpmudev.org “WPMU Dixi is a seriously powerful theme designed specifically for WordPress MU that allows users maximum configuration, with maximum ease… and naturally not a required code edit in sight!

The theme itself has an options page that’ll make your eyes water - allowing you to customize almost every elements of the site from the background, nav colours, font, text size and whether you’d like it to appear as a homepage or a blog page.”

Modifying theme options no longer means coding, simply change a couple of options, see below;

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bundublog.com Ad Sharing

Ad Sharing! - New to bundublog.com!

What is it?

Ad Sharing is a plugin on bundublog.com that allows Ads to be displayed before or after your content, the impressions are split 50 / 50 between bundublogger and bundublog.com.

How do i add my code?

Logon to bundublog.com, go to “Settings” on the Dashboard then select the “Advertising” Tab. You will be presented with a “Before Ad Code” and “After Ad Code” area where you can place your advertising code.

Example code:

1. http://www.bundublog.com

2. (Sponsor Link: (A HREF=”http://www.assetant.co.za” target=”_blank”>assetant.co.za) — Please include <A at the beginning of html and </A> at the end of html instead of ( and )

3. Google Adsense code

4. Your own custom code! Please keep in mind that Text is less intrusive.

Thanks

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