Advice I Give My Clients
Sometimes we get so invested and insulated in the process of creating our own products that we forget to actually them ourselves. Over the past year, I’ve found that concepting and building WordPress themes for our prospective customers that I personally have gotten removed from using them for the same purpose that we’re building them…
I like the comments policy of the Blog Herald. It’s a good idea and something I’ll probably be doing on my blogs as I continue to get spam, and otherwise irritating and distracting comments on posts. If you blog for long in almost any field (unrelated to your dog or cat), you’ll find self-promoters who…
Seeing this article at Daily Blog Tips about removing the timestamp from posts got me thinking. I get a significant amount of Google search engine traffic (50-60 percent on average) on my main blog (as well as my other ones), so I know many people are finding my site through single posts. And most of…
Professional blogger Steve Pavlina answers 11 questions from Daniel at Daily Blog Tips. Number 8 was worth reading the entire post. Daniel’s question was: If you could give an advice for a novice blogger, what would it be? Here’s Pavlina’s response: Don’t be a novice. Nobody wants to read a novice. Instead become an expert…
According to Daniel and Bob, Google is updating their PageRank stuff, which in laymen’s terms means … how King Google determines your worth, value and significance (not personally, I think). Evidentally, they use some sort of fancy, smanchy math formula (alga-rhythm or is it algo-rithmm-m) to determine who matters in cyberspace in their search results…
Here are some links I’m bookmarking for reading and savoring and reminding … How FreelanceSwitch Went from 0 to 2000 Subscribers in 12 days — FreelanceSwitch is a site I’m really looking forward to diving into and reading in Bloglines. How to Squeeze More Money Out of Your Blog — Love the advice Ryan Caldwell…
If you’re going to do much work on the web besides typical posting, etc. on your blog, you’re going to need a good FTP program. My suggestion is SmartFTP … pretty neat program. It remembers you addresses, passwords, etc. And you can have multiple tabs and thus sites up.
One of the hardest things about blogging is finding quality photos to use in your graphical headers. Here are a couple of places I use to find top-notch photos and graphics. IStockPhotos – it’s a paid site, but the quality is great Stock.Xchng – free site, good stuff, check the restrictions Flickr’s Creative Commons photos…
One of the things I’ve struggled with is adding social bookmarking functions like del.icio.us and Digg to my blogs … Now with AddThis, it is all bundled into one nice, neat, little button. Check out the AddThis WordPress Plugin also. [Originally seen and coveted on ProBlogger]
I’ve started a new category called “Advice I Give My Clients” and while I might not give everything away through this series of posts … I’m planning on giving some good advice I’ve learned in my blogging experience. So here’s the first in this series … how to increase your blog’s email newsletter and feed…