On Blogging Australia

I saw all of these recently on the Aussie Bloggers Forum. If you haven’t seen them before they are well worth a look.

• 75 Ways To Increase Your Site’s Traffic: A lot of these are common sense - but sometimes (especially when we’re busy) common sense just isn’t that common.
• The Biggest List Of Google Adsense Alternatives On The Net: I cannot believe that there are 170 of these! Some of them are pay per click or pay per sale affiliate systems and others are link-swapping mechanisms where money doesn’t change hands.
• A Beginner’s guide to StumbleUpon: This article by Meg gives a fairly good introduction to StumbleUpon for bloggers.
  
• 15 Great Examples of Web Typography: typography is an important part of content usability - this article shows you some good examples that are worth emulating.
• Five Essential Wordpress Content Protection Plugins: Content theft is a big issue for many bloggers - this article discusses five plugins for WordPress that help to prevent plagiarism by sploggers.
• PDF Editing & Creation: 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat: usable or not, PDF has become a defacto standard for electronic documents - and Acrobat is expensive for what most of us need it to do (that is, simply take a word processing document and turn it into a PDF file every now and then). This post lists some useful free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat.
• Aussie Blog Resources: this list is on the forum itself - it contains blog lists that feature Australian blogs.
•  How to prevent hotlinking and content theft: SwollenPickles wrote this very useful howto article on the forum, and it discusses different ways to stop content theft dead in its tracks (in some very inventive and unusual ways, I might add).