Posts Tagged ‘FeedBurner

After over three years since its acquisition, Google has finally launched a major upgrade to FeedBurner with an emphasis on real-time stats. The new interface provides real time stats for clicks, views, and podcast downloads, which means you can start seeing what content is drawing traffic from feed readers, Twitter, and other syndicated sources as [...]

Almost exactly 13 months ago, Dick Costolo joined Twitter as its COO after founding FeedBurner and working at Google.  Now he’s received a considerable promotion, with Evan Williams announcing that Costolo will serve as Twitter’s CEO. Williams explained the change on the Twitter Blog, writing, "I am most satisfied while pushing product direction.  Building things [...]

Canonicalizing URLs is a very important  aspect of Search Engine Optimization but also of Social Media Marketing. This morning, when checking my feeds, I noticed an example that I thought could help you understand the what and the why of it. What I noticed was this: Smashing Magazine had put out one of their usually [...]

How to Build a Successful Blog Business is a straight forward guide to building a publishing business online that covers everything from choosing a niche to hiring staff, registering a business to selling it, finding traffic to monetizing it. This is an essential read for web entrepreneurs and online publishers. Collis is a web veteran [...]

Highlight specific words in a phrase Sometimes, for example, when displaying search results, it is a great idea to highlight specific words. This is exactly what the following function can do: function highlight($sString, $aWords) { if (!is_array ($aWords) || empty ($aWords) || !is_string ($sString)) { return false; } $sWords = implode (‘|’, $aWords); return preg_replace [...]


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