Blogs and RSS
3 Easy Ways To Get More Blog Readers Without Spending Money
Many bloggers ask me how to get more readers for their blogs. While I was thinking about writing a post about the topic, Debbie Dragon hit me with a guest post request, sending a contribution about getting more blog readers. That’s what you’ll find below. I’ll let Debbie do the talking. Enjoy! – – – [...]
WordPress 2.7 Upgrade
WordPress 2.7 ‘Coltrane’ was released today. I noticed when I logged in today. ‘Coltrane’ is Max Mullenwegs (the WordPress founder) favorite saxophone player. So I upgraded immediately (in under 1 minute using the Automatic Upgrade Plugin) and I liked what I saw. As promised, there’s a completely new interface which I like. Comprehensive and conveniently [...]
WordPress Security And A Plugin To Help You
There’s a lot of attention lately for WordPress security issues. Blogs get hacked quite often and on forums I see a lot of desperate cries for help. I know how it feels. This blog got hacked once and it’s a real pain in the butt. Before I go into some WordPress security issues, let me [...]
Blog Mastermind Opens Again
Yaro Starak opens his Blog Mastermind program again. Blog Mastermind is an outstanding online blogging course allowing you to make money with your blog. It consists of a 27 part step-by-step training program delivered in weekly lessons, a series of audio interviews with professional bloggers like Darren Rowse, Brian Clark and Andy Wibbels, personal advice [...]
Monetize Blogs With Paid Advertising
When you’re running a serious blog with quality content, chances are at some point you want to monetize it in some way. Adsense ads, banners, links, donations, reviews or affiliate programs, whatever. But if you take the jump to monetize your blog, it implies that you’ll need readers first. After all, who would see your [...]
How To Tweak Your WordPress Theme On The Fly
Sometimes you want to tweak your WordPress theme a bit. Adding extra or new graphics with different dimensions, changing the templates, a bit of extra search engine optimization, replacing a specific part or maybe installing a better solution for something you’re using now… whatever. I’m not talking about adding a widget or activating a plugin. [...]
WordPress Backup And Database Optimizer Plugin
I’ve changed my WordPress Database Backup Plugin for the WP-DBManager. It’s not that I wasn’t happy with the WordPress backup plugin, but the WP database manager has a big advantage. I’m NOT a database specialist, so don’t ask me why it happens (if you do know, share it with me in a comment), but over [...]
Comment Spam Or Not?
I just read Comment Spam Warning Signs from Andy Beard. Deciding which comments are spam, irrelevant, for link juice only or positive and constructive is one of the most difficult tasks I have to do while running this blog. In the above mentioned post, Alex Goad of Net Frontier Marketing describes the problem very nicely: [...]
