- Video Blogs Where Are They?| Leave a Comment
I spend a lot of time online every day. Between my freelance writing work and blogging I also read a lot of blogs online. A year ago I firmly believed that video blogging would become the next thing for bloggers on the net but now I have to say that perhaps I had it all [...]
- Bloghology, An Anthology of Bloggers by Mert Erkal| Leave a Comment
Bloghology is a collection of bloggers, their profiles, photos, and links to their best posts. It is a PDF e-book which can be easily circulated throughout the blogosphere for personal branding and marketing of selected good quality bloggers.
Mert Erkal has been working on this for months now, and I’m glad he finally launched it. [...]
- Video That Helps Install WP Locally| Leave a Comment
I wrote a post last year on how to install WordPress locally on your hard drive. The benefit of this is that you can tamper with your theme and plugins until you are happy to go live. It is a huge benefit to your readers, since they won’t be distracted by changing presentations.
To help those [...]
- A Typical Example of Why You Need Self Hosting| Leave a Comment
An acquaintance I met in a forum has recently asked the question on how to best move her blog from being a free WordPress blog to a self hosted one instead. The lady in question has been blogging on her free WordPress blog for 18 month before she realized that she needed to go self [...]
- The Right And Wrong Ways to Link| Leave a Comment
Linking is big business for all bloggers. After all we all want to have plenty of incoming links to rank better in search engines. And for those of you who think that linking to a competitor the right way is damaging for you, think again.
Not many bloggers actually have the knowledge on how to rank [...]
- Argumentation Behaviour| Leave a Comment
Arguments are part of live. They can actually be very healthy for relationships as long as they stay in context. The problems with arguments start when people start to become abusive and hurt each other intentionally. So how do we deal with this kind of situation as a blogger?
Bloggers are normally quite behaved in regards [...]
- How To Get Blog Traffic from StumbleUpon| 38 Comments
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With all the hype about social bookmarking these days, it’s near impossible to separate the myths from the facts.
Myth: Use social bookmarking, it’s sooo easy to get tons of traffic
Fact: It’s not easy but done the right way, you can get a lot of traffic
StumbleUpon is a great way to get huge amounts of [...]
- Create Your Own Free Contact Form| Leave a Comment
As a response to Stephanie’s comment regarding the biggest WordPress issues you had when you first started out blogging, I’m doing this post on adding contact forms to your WordPress blog. On my main blog I’m using Aweber to provide the form for my free ebook give away (Using auto responders). But on my self [...]
- Would You Pay For A Wordpress Theme?| Leave a Comment
Yes I know, you can get tons of it for free. I have my own collection of turnkey WordPress themes and simple free WordPress themes you can download and use on your blogs. But I also sell a few customized non-unique themes through the Wordpress Adsense System and most people who’ve bought it absolutely love [...]
- Setting Up A New Sub Domain| Leave a Comment
In my recent post about the set up of an addon domain I confused some of you because I mentioned the word sub in the same post. I realize that this was confusing and merely me not relying the information correctly, so I do apologize for that. I have since rectified the post and put [...]