Cory Miller

Blogging

  • Design or Content: What’s More Important

    Daniel’s got Mark Goush of Weblog Tools Collection (an outstanding site for WordPress stuff) and EngTech facing off over at Daily Blog Tips today. One of the questions he asked them was: “What is more important, the content or the design?” Mark’s answer was: Both. Design and content are both responsible for bringing users back…

  • On Creating Blog Spillover Success

    It’s been neat over the last year to watch my traffic on my various blogs … including the most trafficked blogs and how, as I have interlinked them, the traffic spills over to the others. Of course, spillover traffic on each blog isn’t 100 percent … not even close. But there is a smaller, but…

  • The First 5 Essential Tweaks I Do in a WordPress Blog Installation

    Smashing Magazine just asked for reader’s best WordPress tutorial ideas and so I’m going to unveil the first five essential tasks/tweaks I do whenever I set up a WordPress blog … Here goes … Five Essential Tweaks For Your WordPress Blog Install 1. Install the Google Sitemap Plugin — and link to it in my…

  • Following Up with Unverified Email Subscribers

    Darren has a great tip in his post about how to increase RSS subscribers. He suggests following up with those who have subscribed via email to your feed but who have not verified their subscription. This is excellent advice for those who have any kind of email subscription database. With the opt-in requirements for email…

  • How to Add More WordPress Text Widgets

    I’ve been looking for a solution to add more text widgets to a WordPress blog … seeing as that’s a great and easy way for “non-tech” people to add content. And I have a client wanting a TON … Check out this WordPress support post on this topic.