It seems that there is a error with the current build of windows live writer when posting images to the blog. Every time i posted it would seems that it would just overwrite the image instead of making  a new folder. The crew at windows live team gave me a fix I thought i would share it. They say it will be fixed “soon”.

Open regedit

2. Open HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Writer\Weblogs\{blog-id}\UserOptionOverrides\, where {blog-id} is a GUID. You will have several of these, but should be able to tell the right one by looking at the contents of the key.

3. Add a new String value with name “fileUploadNameFormat” (case matters!!) and the value
{WindowsLiveWriter}/{PostTitle}/{Randomizer}/{AsciiFileName}

At the outset, I have to confess that I’m not sure if this is a new feature in Windows Live Writer or not.  But it’s new to me as I just discovered it.  Did you know you can enable a real-time word count display in the status bar of Writer?  It’s handy when you’re authoring posts and want to keep them under a certain length.

Why a certain length?

There is some thought going around the Search Engine Optimization community that pages that are too short can get passed over for high rankings. I try to keep posts at least 250 words. Of course there are some posts on my blogs that are shorter, but if I’m writing a post that I want to rank well I try to give it some meatiness in terms of length. On the other hand don’t make it too long either - because in doing so you make it difficult to keep your keyword density up and could end up with a less tightly focused page. Research also shows that longer articles can have a pretty steep drop off rate in readers after the text gets below the ‘fold’ or to the end of the first screen of article.

Post length is not as important as the idea and how you convey it. There are no such thing as exact number of words for web copy.Getting the idea across to your audience is more important, and if you do it in a way they expect most, you are going to build your audience / feed subscribers.

So that being said Here is how you do it

Turning it on is easy, just click on the Tools menu, then Options…, and then click Editing in the options window.  Check the word count checkbox:

Then you’ll see the count at the bottom of the screen:

There are lots of other cool options in Writer.  What have you found?

- Marcus, Windows Live Community Manager

Windows Live Tags: how-to,Writer,word count,length

346 words in this article. LOL