Recently I started a newsletter and wanted to provide a link or button in the sidebar so visitors could click on an image or link that would take them to my newsletter page. After selecting an image and creating a link to the newsletter page, I got to thinkin’ about how I’d make the whole [...]
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Here’s this week’s Five Faves. Five favorite sites that offer an incredibly useful tool or two, a stunning design (eye candy) or some thought-provoking thinkery. Feel free to sprinkle some of your own faves that you’ve discovered recently, in the comments. 1. DocVerse DocVerse allows you to share your Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel over [...]
If you’re a blogger, you have what are called popular posts on your blog. How do you know this or find this out? Run some type of analytics software on your blog and you’ll find out. Popular posts are also referred to as your “Money Posts”. Why? Because you can leverage those posts to make [...]
If you’re a blogger and would like to include video on your WordPress.com or self hosted WordPress.org blog, you might want to give Automattic’s VideoPress a try. You’ll need a WordPress.com account (Free) and VideoPress will cost you $59.97 per year or $0.16 cents a day. Not too bad. It’s available from the Upgrade page [...]
While writing about How to Stop Blog Comment Spam, I realized that all the comment policies I’ve read over the last couple years were starting to make sense. I’ve read a few and thought I’d start implementing a comments policy myself on one of my blogs. What led to this decision was finally receiving a [...]
One of my blogs was overwhelmed last week with quite a bit of comment spam. Luckily my host locked it down for me until I resolved the issue. Not too much fun when your site is shut down, but here are some remedies that will help you avoid your site from becoming 403′d – the [...]
After summarizing Google’s Search Engine Optimization Start Guide, I thought I’d provide an SEO definitions page for those folks who are new to SEO or just need to know what’s what. So here are Thriteen SEO Definitions. Mind you, this is not some exhaustive list. Just some that I found helpful when I started learning [...]
