The trick with promoting a website is to get your message to users who matter. There’s no sense in spamming your grandmother with links for a website about hot rod cars. I’m sure you’ve faced this sort of situation on social media. A friend is into something new, such as selling hair shampoo, and everything […]
Blogging Tips, Tutorials & Techniques
The blogging section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of creating and operating a blog on the internet today. Discussion includes fundamental and moderately advanced topics in the worlds of goal setting, strategy, technology and more. Additional topics include how to effectively generate content and implement a blog live on the web as well as how to advance and market your website through SEO and social media.
How Do I Stop Fake Signups For My MailChimp Mailing List?
Question: I’ve got a real problem over here. I am currently using MailChimp as my mailing list provider and for about two years, everything has been fine. I think I’ve managed to collect around 800 email addresses from people who are apparently interested in what I write on my blog. By the way, I have […]
Write With Genuine Integrity For Your Blogging Audience
I’ll be writing a series of posts in this thread that have to do with writing in general and how to best write to connect with your blogging audience. The reason for doing this is two or three-fold; first, I love to write and by this point in my life, I feel that I need […]
Noindex Tag is Bad For Website SEO
I challenge you to prove me wrong on this. Actually, I plead with you to prove me wrong. Someone, please, prove me wrong. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever seen the noindex tag improve the ranking of a website? I’m venturing a guess that you haven’t. I haven’t and I’ve been playing […]
Show Clear Intent When Writing Blog Posts
I write a lot. I mean, a lot. I can be found at my desk for at least 12 hours per day and for most of that time, I’m writing. I obviously enjoy doing what I do or I wouldn’t be doing it. Anyone as diligent as I am can find a variety of things […]
Which Is Better For WordPress – Full Post or Summary (Excerpt)?
Question: I’ve been going back and forth with this for years. When I first began blogging back in 2006, I believe the only option was to have WordPress display the full content of a post on the homepage as well as all the archive pages, including categories and tags. This worked fine for me and […]
Blogging With a Focus on Writing Mechanics
One of the most important aspects of writing, or in this case, blogging, is simple writing mechanics. I’ve written previously about how to proofread grammar and about why grammar is so important to any blog post, but I’ve yet to discuss specifics related to grammar itself or writing mechanics in general. Trust me, I’ll get […]
Website Hacked Because of Yuzo Related Posts Plugin
I wrote a post yesterday in another category and thought I’d update you here in this category. This is important information and I don’t want anyone to miss it. To get caught up with what’s going on with the Yuzo Related Posts plugin hack, please read through this post and then return here. WordPress Website […]
How to Check for Grammar, Spelling & Usage Errors While Blogging
I’d like to take a few moments today to discuss some tricks and helpful strategies I’ve learned through the years when it comes to proofreading my blog posts. Since 2006, I’ve written well over 4,000 posts as well as countless articles, emails and anything else you can think of. I spend most of my day […]
WordPress Website Hacked and is Now Redirecting
Earlier this week, I visited one of my WordPress blogs and to my surprise, I found that it was redirecting to a website with the URL of DoNotifyFriends[dot]info. I freaked out a bit and was just about to place a support ticket with my hosting provider (LiquidWeb) when I realized I could restore the website […]