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PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:55 pm    Post subject: Keywords Reply with quote

Hi I was is there or will there be support for keyword "phrases"? I've tried to do keyword phrases an it seems that I can only do single keywords. Since keywords are displayed on pages when assigned to articles I looked like a good boost for page relevancy with the SE's. Is there a way "around" this to create keyword phrases for more targeted and niched content?

Also, is there support for cgi scripts in the HMTL pages?

Lastly, can pages be 100% fully customized with custom CSS/XHTML templates or am I limited to the available templates and can only change font and color schemes?

Thanks!

~T
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Keywords Reply with quote

70sFlashback wrote:
Hi I was is there or will there be support for keyword "phrases"?

Good question, let me check on this... Update - no, we do not currently have support for keyword phrases.
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Also, is there support for cgi scripts in the HMTL pages?

No, unfortunately there is not.
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Lastly, can pages be 100% fully customized with custom CSS/XHTML templates or am I limited to the available templates and can only change font and color schemes?

You can customize any of the current CSS elements or add your own classes via the style template, and then edit any of the other templates which present the blog structure.

So for example, if you want to edit the way an article appears structurally - maybe you want the Leave comment link to appear above the body of the article rather than below - then you would edit the article and category templates.

If you want to alter the presentation of the content via CSS, edit the style template to change the font of the Leave comment link.

Search the forums for CSS, there are a couple of nice threads with more information on modifying the CSS of your blog.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks John for the great support you provide here. Very timely responses indeed.

My next question just occurred to me. I've gotten a few comment notifications that were actually comment spam. When I checked the entry on my blog and through my admin panel. There was nothing to be found.

What type of comment spam filtering is in use with BlogHarbor as the comment spam seems to have been unsuccessful, and what should I do in the future the help protect myself?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If our system administrators see a large number of comment spams from a single user account, they will remove the user account which will also remove all comments by that user. So that's probably what happened in this case.

You can delete comments yourself and block that IP address from spamming you; see this page for more info:

http://demo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2004/6/3/82270.html

If you are experiencing a bigger problem than can be solved in this manner, please contact us so we can see if there's anything we can do to assist.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for all the info John.

It seems the more I use BlogHarbor the more I grow to appreciate this service. This is powerful stuff here. Correct if I'm wrong here but it seems you didn't build a service for just "blogging" you features seem forward thinking in how to empower publishers to build business (profit or not) around content. Dynamic RSS, subscription model, user/groups, etc. I'm still growing in my appreciation and plan to write up a review...it's just that you all have such great features I'm having trouble with where to start and communicate what you offer. Smile

Get that post to the future feature and wow...you'll be really rockin'. Wink

Okay, next question is, is there a way to add additional ping URLs?

For the HTML pages, is there away to custom name and URL besides using subject line of the entry?

for _WebPages/ is there a way to reference an image with a relative path name instead of and absolute path? I tried /images and it didn't work. I FTP'd to see if I need to create a directory within the _WebPages directory but alas, no _WebPages/ directory was to be found. So now I just reference the absolute URL to the images.

Thanks for the support!

~T
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems the more I use BlogHarbor the more I grow to appreciate this service. This is powerful stuff here. Correct if I'm wrong here but it seems you didn't build a service for just "blogging" you features seem forward thinking in how to empower publishers to build business (profit or not) around content. Dynamic RSS, subscription model, user/groups, etc. I'm still growing in my appreciation and plan to write up a review...it's just that you all have such great features I'm having trouble with where to start and communicate what you offer. Smile

You figured out the secret. As long as the cat's out of the bag, yes, this is a very advanced content management system, it is much more than a blogging system. Wink

Seriously, we think you are absolutely correct. We have already seen a number of businesses replace their intranet or create a new one using our system. They were able to see beyond the term blog and see the system for what it is, a powerful content and communications management system.

Get that post to the future feature and wow...you'll be really rockin'. Wink

One of the Top 5 requested features, when it is made available we'll crank up the AC/DC and get all retro in our rockin'.

Okay, next question is, is there a way to add additional ping URLs?

Not from within the web interface. Some blogging clients such as ecto will allow you to configure your own URLs to ping. If you have any suggestions about services we should ping by defualt, please let us know.

For the HTML pages, is there away to custom name and URL besides using subject line of the entry?

No, there is not.

for _WebPages/ is there a way to reference an image with a relative path name instead of and absolute path? I tried /images and it didn't work. I FTP'd to see if I need to create a directory within the _WebPages directory but alas, no _WebPages/ directory was to be found. So now I just reference the absolute URL to the images.

The _WebPages directory, like your blog articles, is stored in the database and can not be accessed via the File Manager.

A relative reference from a Web Page to an images directory created at the root level of the File Manager could created as follows:

Code:
<img src="../../images/test.jpg">


Or you could just create a reference via an absolute path such as:

Code:
<img src="/images/test.jpg">


Thanks for the support!

Thanks for using the service!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great! Thank you very much John.

Regards,

~Thomas
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:29 pm    Post subject: Comment Syndication Reply with quote

Hi John,

Another question. Is it possible to syndicate comments in blogharbor blogs like in WordPress?

This is a great tool for monitoring comments and more importantly rapid response for support of readers, customers, partners, etc with your blog.

Thanks!

~Thomas
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 12:33 am    Post subject: Re: Comment Syndication Reply with quote

That's a good suggestion, we don't have that feature at this time but will add it to the list of requests.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool. Looking forward to it and thanks for the reply.

Next question: Does BlogHarbor only allow one unique username across the entire BlogHarber/Blogware family of blogs? It seems twice I've tried to create a username and got an error stating that the username is already taken and I don't have the username as a registered account at my blog.

Also is it possible to create an anonymous account that multiple users can share a login with. An example of use would be to use the account to have access to membership/privileged content on a secured channel without having to add user after they hae subscribed to at least one channel since you can only see a reader once they subscribed to one channel or category. I'm trying to figure out the best way to use secured categories and membership that reduces intervention on my part as much as possible for content access. Setting an anonymous/single user account that can proxy a member access would be great. I can simply configure a channel, a group and add that single user and just manage the password only.

Thanks!

Thomas
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, Usernames are unique across the entire BlogHarber/Blogware network. This is a feature, not a bug. Wink

This means your Username is a global one and there are many advantages to this approach. It means that if you would like a second weblog, make sure to choose Existing User when filling in your Username/Password on the User Account Information section of the signup form. By doing so, you can create additional blogs which are linked to your one Username; when accessing your Admin Control Panel you will be able to administer all of your blogs without having to logout and login again. Just choose the blog you want to administer from a dropdown list and you'll switch to management of that blog.

Another advantage is that your Username can be used to access other blogs and subscribe to receive their email updates, or to post comments on blogs which do not allow anonymous comments.

You can also use that same account if another blog owner grants you permission to access restricted categories of their content.

Another blog owner can give you Author permissions on their blog, so you will be able to login to your Admin Control Panel and from the one signon, switch back and forth to posting content on that blog as well...



70sFlashback wrote:
Also is it possible to create an anonymous account that multiple users can share a login with. An example of use would be to use the account to have access to membership/privileged content on a secured channel without having to add user after they hae subscribed to at least one channel since you can only see a reader once they subscribed to one channel or category. I'm trying to figure out the best way to use secured categories and membership that reduces intervention on my part as much as possible for content access. Setting an anonymous/single user account that can proxy a member access would be great. I can simply configure a channel, a group and add that single user and just manage the password only.


You could do this, but the main disadvantages would be that the user could not subscribe to receive email notifications since the reader account would be tied to a single email address, the identity of the poster of any comments from the user would be indistinguishable from any other reader, and lastly that one of the readers could abuse the account and simply change the password on it making it inaccessible by other users.

If your users are trusted, knowledgable, and honorable, it could work though.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey John,

Great response and it makes sense now. The part B of the question also makes sense. I was hoping there was some way to shut off any way for any given user to change user properties so thanks for expanding on that as well.

Best Regard!

Thomas
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey John,

I keep coming back and coming back...mind is whirling with different ways to use your service as well as learn how it works best. You gonna like this one...

Since BlogHarbor creates dynamic feeds for categories (I see them as channels for this reason) what about the possibility of creating a Title and Description are as part of the Category setup and pass those as a variable to the dynamic feed component along with the Category name?

Here's my thinking on this. This is from a marketing point of view and would put BlogHarbor really on the cutting edge. RSS feeds are increasingly becoming a significant SEO marketing tool. The search engines respond specifically to the Titles and Descriptions of RSS feeds when indexing them (I'm not talking about the content/items within the feed) so this means one one could actually promote the categorie feeds in Search for the related information content within them. This would awesome!

It's cool enough that blogs supercharge your content in the regular index but (take Yahoo RSS search as the example) RSS search gets going in the standard search engines and coupled with Blog search engines this becomes pretty powerful.

Do you know how many marketers could setup shop here and manage a niche of related products/services yet each category is optimized (by use of keywords in titles and decriptions for each category) to work like and independent tightly focused content source? Wow. And the traffic would simple comeback to the blog that of course has a related them and related categories of more high value content.

Now maintain feeds like this is certainly possible it's a diy deal with manual updates by the publisher.

Right now the category feeds keep the site title/description as the overall blog name.

How about this? Is this possible?

Thanks!

~T
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

T -

Thanks for your post, these are interesting suggestions. We do see what you are saying; there are a number of additional capabilites we would like to see added to the way RSS feeds are handled... It is not currently possible to modify the RSS feed the way you describe, though.

I am interested in learning more about search engine optimization and RSS feeds. If you could point to any articles which discuss how RSS is handled by Google for example, that would be of great interest.

Oh, and let's start a new topic for that discussion, this one is all under the heading of Keywords and we're pretty far away from the original topic at this point!

Thanks again!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOL...will do John. I'll get that started shortly. Thanks again for the great support you provide here.

Regards,

Thomas
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