Should You Claim Your Blog?
How often do you check your Technorati authority? Was it rising or falling? As for me and my account on that site, the last time I login was oblivious. Meaning, I don’t have much concern to check on my authority ratings or whatever. It was only today that I remember checking the status of my blog on Technorati. I wrote about the changes that’s been taking place on some blog search engines, specifically Technorati, and this arrow up and down thing.
This blog is already listed on my accout way long ago. But I wanted to change the url as it didn’t have the www prefix. I don’t know why but I always have the three w’s in my url. I’ve learned that there’s a difference between with and without www. Anyway, I did not delete the one without www, instead I claimed the same blog this time with www. But the new change has been added is to verify the blog with an assigned code. The said code should be inserted within a new post on your blog. I had second thoughts so I ignored it and said this blog was already there. Then without second thoughts, I deleted my claim and abrakadabra! The blogs are gone! My new claim and the old one that’s listed. Now, I have to do the claiming process for real or I can no longer see my authority and the rise and fall. So if you’re seeing this MZJAS582SMFF, it’s the code probably generated automatically for my claim. I’ll check my Technorati profile later if the code verifier has found it.
Speaking of claims, Alexa has the same strategy too, but the process of claiming is not the same as this one on Technorati. I am not particularly aware of what good it is to claim your blog on any blog search engine. It might be useful to get your blog visible and involved in the blogosphere.
Transition Period
Guess what, not only humans and everything on earth go through a period of transition. This blog has gone through many changes of themes and colors but in a couple of days there will be a slight transition from head to foot. Somewhere along the way in my journey to blogging I realized what I really wanted to write on this blog. We have come a long way to blogging and we learned what it should be about. We create so many blogs, yet the contents are just the same. I have neglected my other blog because my thoughts and ideas fit to both when it shouldn’t be. But it’s not going to happen, hopefully, after the transition. I have another blog on the way so it will be a heck of a blogging time. I know I complain much about how busy I am with my job that I get too little time even for my online moonlighting. But it’s a challenge I don’t want to miss. If time challenges me, I challenge it back. Lol! I’ll see you in, let’s say, less than a week. Until then, have a pleasant week ahead.
Image Viewer Plugin
I have finally found the right image viewer plugin for this blog. I’ve always wondered how those thumbnail images on other sites just pop-up when clicked right in front of you without leaving the site. It’s useful when I want to post two or more images and with thumbnails I save space and keep the post shorter than showing all the real size of the images vertically. You may have noticed that I usually include one image in most of my posts, on few occasions two. I remember I posted several images in a post but I made them smaller than my normal image size.
I have tried the plugin on my previous post if you have noticed the thumbnails. Oh, I haven’t mentioned the name of this plugin yet. Silly me, talking about it this far already. It’s called Lightbox 2 for Wordpress blogs. I don’t know if it works on Blogger blogs. You can see it again in action on my thumbnails below.
There are other image viewer plugins I tried but this one works well for me. It’s simple set-up is one that I can guarantee of. I am the type who just download, upload and activate. Although it’s challenging to handle some after activation-procedure sometimes, it’s still easier with my three rules.








