http://gudeblogs.com You write. We host, design, manage and promote your blog. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:52:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blogging about something that's current can increase your visitorship. When something happens in the world, the internet is one of the key sources of information - we log on to find out more, read more, learn more and understand more. If you have thoughts on what's happening, blog about it and ask ... http://gudeblogs.com/2009/03/02/blog-about-whats-current/ Get to know your readers better. Visit their blogs. Read their postings. Leave comments. If you enjoyed a particular post, let them know. If you have questions, ask. If their posts got you thinking, blog about it on your own blog and link back to them. If you have written something ... http://gudeblogs.com/2009/02/03/visit-readers-blogs/ Replying to comments is one of the best ways to make your blog come alive. When your readers leave comments, they would love to hear from you. So take the time to reply to them. It's like standing in a room talking to a bunch of people. Your words resonate with some ... http://gudeblogs.com/2009/01/12/reply-to-comments/ We've just added a new feature to GudeBlogs which displays a list of related posts at the end of each blog posting. Our clients love it because (a) it's automated (b) it encourages their readers to read more! The plugin we are using is called Similar Posts. The plugin is easy ... http://gudeblogs.com/2008/12/07/automatically-displaying-related-posts/ All our blogs come with StatPress - a plugin which allows our bloggers to track traffic to their blogs. It does give you a quick overview of your web traffic, the top keywords, etc. We've also boosted GudeBlogs with Google Analytics for clients who prefer Google Analytics. We are using a plugin called "Google ... http://gudeblogs.com/2008/12/04/tracking-gudeblogs-google-analytics/ We've decided to give Odiogo a try! Odiogo transforms posts into podcasts automatically using text-to-speech technology. It works pretty well. If you want to check it out just press the "Listen Now" button that is on this blog post. The voice reading the blog post, by default, is male. We were hoping we ... http://gudeblogs.com/2008/12/02/blogs-podcasting/ We just launched Terrific Mentors - a website for John Bittleston - one of the most inspiring men we know. His blog, known as "The Mentor Moment", is a must-read for anyone who is trying to navigate through life. John Bittleston has accomplished a lot in his life. He has been at the helm of ... http://gudeblogs.com/2008/12/01/terrificmentors/ We've just launched a gudeblog for a dear friend - Constance Singam . Constance, or Connie, is currently the president of AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research). She is a writer, social activist and now a blogger! We met Constance more than 4 years ago when we revamped AWARE's ... http://gudeblogs.com/2008/08/16/living-life-70/ We just launched a gudeblog for Cherry Han , an old friend who migrated from Singapore to Melbourne, Australia just a year ago. Since she retired 3 years ago, she has taken an interest in hair loss - a topic that apparently is common dinner conversation among friends and retirees. Cherry's blog ... http://gudeblogs.com/2008/08/04/we-love-our-hair/ When Grace gives you a challenge - rise to it. That's the long and short of working with or for Grace. Grace has asked us to provide a feature to allow bloggers to quickly add YouTube videos and Google videos to their blog. And that's what we've done. As our version 1.1, ... http://gudeblogs.com/2008/08/01/adding-videos-to-blogs/