Archive for August, 2009

Do you want to make your web site compatible with the iPhone (or most of the intelligent mobile phones)? This is relatively easy. I found two good solutions for you:

1. For WordPress users, why not install and use WPtouch which will build a theme compatible with the small screens of these phones out of your web site?



2. For the others, there is DoYouFeed. It will take your RSS feed to present it right. Not hard if you have an RSS thread containing full posts (rather than summaries); But you already know that this is the right thing to do…

Do you want your blog to become visible to press people in the mainstream press media? This used to be nearly impossible, but the Internet is bringing a solution. Not perfect, but BlogBurst offers exactly that: International exposure into the small but influential world of big media (both paper press and some big Internet web sites).

Your content has to be very powerful and mere exposure does not mean that you will be immediately considered as a worldwide expert on the issue you blog about, but it could be a sort of blog-japckpot.

Technorati has quickly become the reference in blog tracking. You want happy visitors favoriting you on Technorati for others to know. Make it easy. First, claim your blog in your account. Then add a button like this:

(#if you click it you’ll favorite YWantVisits!)

It’s easy. Technorati provides the code of this button along with many other widgets.

I had told that you should have a special page to be contacted directly. But this is not sufficient to be easy to call.

It is also critical to let your visitors know who you are: A company, an association, a Church, an NGO, an individual. This is not because Internet allows you to appear whatever you’d want to be that you must hide behind a virtual mask. Many a visitor wish ti understand whose words they are reading. This adds credibility and supports your writing.

So, open an “About me” page. ou “A propos“. Present yourself, and make sure that you’re looking good in the context of your web site. Follow the advice from ProBlogger: How to Write Your “About Me” Page.

But never let you reveal information that you may be ashamed of, at any time, in any place, under any circumstances: What is published on the Internet will stay forever and may haunt you.

As a friend tells sometimes: You may find it funny to reveal how drunk you were in this gutter, but it won’t have the same appeal to your ex-future employer.