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How to make your blog mobile

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

These days a lot of people are using their mobile phones, PDAs and iPhones to surf the web. So more and more people are actually looking for just your fantastic content with handheld devices, but can they find your content?

If you got a blog in Wordpress it’s actually easy to make a mobile version of your blog. You don’t really need to to that much work at all, just install a plugin and all your blog posts will be available in a mobile format for smaller screens.

I for example found a good plugin I like. It’s called wp-pda and will be installed in just a few seconds (no settings to change, just plug it in).

To install the plugin you just upload the files in your plugin directory and you’re ready to go. Once you’ve activated your plugin anyone visiting your blog with mobile phone, PDA or iPhone will see your content in a stripped down version.

The best part of this plugin is that you don’t have to tell your visitors a new URL just for the mobile blog. They simply just visit the same URL they always do when they want your content :D

What I don’t like is that the visitors see the normal blog page when they click on a link in your mobile version :( I hope that’s just a settings problem or something and that it will be corrected in future versions. I also need to figure out how Google and the other search engines will find the new mobile version and redirect the searchers to that page instead of the normal blog. I guess you should be able to use the mobile sitemaps in Google somehow.

Does anyone know if Google is using another user agent for their spider when it’s looking for mobile content?

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Is your company listed at CrunchBase.com?

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I don’t remember how I found this service, but I like it and it got  a lot of potential :D . At CrunchBase.com you can look up companies, products, people and financial organizations.

My first search was of course for Shoemoney :D and I found both his company and him as a person in the database: Jeremy Shoemaker - ShoeMoney Media Group

The article about Jeremy had some interesting information like blog posts and external links to for example an article called From Unemployment to 8 figures. I had never seen that article before, but it’s really interesting.

About the Shoemoney Media Group CrunchBase.com didn’t have that much information, but the good thing is that anyone can help submitting information to the site. It’s not a wiki, but there are a lot of edit buttons everywhere so you can submit and update almost any information.

After I had finished reading about Shoemoney I submitted a little bit information myself about Xavier Media :D

One of the features I like the most about CrunchBase.com is the widget you can add in your blog posts, on your web site or anywhere you need to show information about a specific company. Whenever I write about a company in the future I may have to add this little widget at the bottom of each post :D

Is your company listed at CrunchBase.com?

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Would you like to write for us?

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I posted at DigitalPoint forums and at Twitter yesterday requesting quotes from people who would be willing to write articles for us, but I got few responses :(

So I’m going to give another try in this blog :D instead.

If you’re interested in writing articles for a….

  • …Mini blog - a blog about Mini Cooper, Austin, Clubman etc….
  • …Public Information blog - a blog about how to find public information online and how to protect your personal information…
  • …World Finance Online - a blog about, yeah that right finance online :D

…then please contact me with your price quote.

The articles we need are about 300 words and we need you to provide a new article about every 2 weeks.

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