DannyDang.com

Update: Week 2 (Progress!!)

To my surprise, dannydang.com is now Google search results #1 & #2!! (As of April 17, #2 & 3) The poker guy probably thought he had a good few months before he had to worry about this Dang.

Week in review: I have done a lot of tweaking to the site. I have added Brian’s awesome Threaded Comments plugin, but I am still working on the placement of the MyBlogLog avatars. Also this week, I decided to join the Dofollow movement.

Some of you may have noticed that the site was down on Saturday for a bit. I wanted to correct a mistake of installing my blog at dannydang.com/blog. Reading up on all the posts I could find on moving WordPress, I thought I was prepared. Boy was I wrong! The WordPress site has a great step-by-step on Moving WordPress. After following the steps and reloading the site, to my horror all I got was a page of error messages. Luckily for me a I had a backup. I can’t stress enough to backup all your files and databases before doing any major work to your site. I highly recommend Austin Matzko’s WordPress backup plugin, which can automate the process for you lazy bloggers.

Enough geek, on to the good stuff… Continue reading…

Jump on the Technorati Favorites Train

The always fabulous MsDanielle has tagged me in another link building exchange involving Technorati. If you’re not familiar with link building exchanges, think of it like a big networking party where everyone is exchanging business cards. Mr. Gary Lee puts a spin on this by adding a link train to the concept. I recommend you read Dosh Dosh’s Ultimate Technorati Favorites Exchange: An Interactive Experiment! and add him to your Technorati favorites, too.

Here’s how it goes: Continue reading…

NoFollow No More.

Over at Julie’s Journal, she has joined the D List movement. It’s a complete list of all the blogs that use the dofollow plugin.

WordPress, by default, has automatically been adding the “nofollow” extension to all links from comments and trackbacks. This is done to combat spammers. As I do choose to moderate all my comments at this time in conjunction with running the Akismet plugin, I want to give out as much link love as possible. Join the list and pass the love around! Continue reading…

My Obsessive Thoughts

It looks like I’ve been tagged by Ms Danielle in a online game known as “Obsessive Thoughts” where you list five obsessions and “tag” five more bloggers to list five obsessions of their own. This is a great linkbait opportunity. So, in no particular order, here are five things that I obsess over:

1. Music. I am obsessed with collecting music. I love all types of music. From old school Rhythm & Blues to classical. What I listen to will change depending on my mood. Some days I want to listen to Punk and Alternative, then another day I’ll listen to folk. I used to have over 150GB of music stored on my computer but a major hard drive failure wiped most of my collection. I am in the midst of rebuilding my collection. Also, everything must be tagged and categorized in my iTunes library. I know, thats geeky! Continue reading…

Selfish Promotion of My Blog: Name in My Domain List

Following yesterday’s theme of getting more exposure for my little site, I decided to join a list called Name in My Domain List I saw on Ms. Danielle’s site. This list was original started by a man they call Mr. Gary Lee. If you’re egotistic and vain, or just lack creative flare on picking domain names… don’t be left out, get yourself added to the list! Continue reading…