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WordPress Theme SEO: 5 Things to Look for
Are you looking into SEO for your website, desiring more traffic, and wanting to progress to the next level? Believe it or not, your choice of website actually plays a significant part in determining...
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WordPress 3.3 Fights with Akismet
Here’s a heads up about what happens to your Akismet plugin once you install WordPress 3.3 First, ALL comments posted to my blogs were going into spam after I installed WordPress 3.3. Ergo, I wasn’t...
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My February Blogging Challenge
Sometimes you have to challenge yourself to do better. This month, I’ve challenged myself to blog each and every day to my dating site at 101Date.com. The ‘challenge’ is due to the fact that I’m no...
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April 2012 Challenge
Back in February, I challenged myself to blog everyday at 101Date.com and posted the results here. After a month-long break, it’s time to engage in another challenge. This month, I will: Post every...
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Turnkey Websites – An Online Marketer’s Heaven or Hell?
Turnkey websites have been around for years and just as long as they have, people have been debating about their pros and cons. Of course, both sides have equally good points, but is there a way that...
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No Website? Are You Kidding Me?
Scott, the arborist, and his crew from Element Tree Services in Penticton had just finished doing a magnificent job of cutting, shaping and pruning the trees in my yard. As I was writing a cheque for...
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Local Business Websites: Beauty Salon
Today I profile the local business blog of Heiress Salon, a beauty salon and boutique owned and operated by Lindsay Ellis of Penticton, British Columbia. This is my favorite (and IMHO, the best) hair...
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Designing an E-Commerce Site to Maximise Sales
Today’s guest post is by Preet Sandhu. When you’re designing a new website for your ecommerce business, it’s important to think about more than where to place your company logo. Putting yourself in...
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Price Drop on StudioPress All-Theme Package
Just a quick note to let you know that the StudioPress folks have dropped the price of their Pro Pack All Themes Package for one week only, starting today. Until Tuesday, you can get all 46...
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You MUST Rank for Your Name
What’s YOUR name? Are you proud of it? Then SHOW your pride and make sure that is part of everything you do online. OK, taking a step back, I agree that there are many instances in which you would...
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Making it Big: How Blogging Gets Better When You Think Big
I’ll say it upfront: blogging isn’t exactly the best way to make money. There are some bloggers who did make it big but those are an exception. Most bloggers find it extremely hard to pull in revenue...
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7 Ways to Speed Up Your Blog
This morning I visited – or tried to visit — a blog that loaded so slowly, I was transported back to 1996, when we used 28.8K dial-up modems and almost every site took forever to load in a browser....
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Are You Playing Nice with Blog Spammers?
A few months ago, I helped a friend set up his first blog – sending him to Bluehost to arrange for his domain name (for free) and hosting – after which I did the installation with very basic plugins...
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12 WordPress Security Tips
A reader asked for tips on how to secure his WordPress blog against hackers. After thinking about and listing all the things I do to keep my blogs secure, I did some online research to see where my...
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14 Reasons to Fire Your Webmaster
Does your website REALLY represent your small business and help you succeed by engaging your existing clientele and attracting new customers? Here are 14 problems that I see all too frequently on small...
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How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog
Did you know that each time you save a draft post to your WordPress blog, the mySQL database stores a record of that post? Your WordPress database also contains records of each update you make to...
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How often should I post to my blog?
For the first few years after I started writing about Internet and affiliate marketing in 2001, I posted one article and sent out its corresponding newsletter to my email subscribers pretty much...
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Online Donations: Make the Process Simple for Donors
A very good friend of ours recently passed away and in lieu of flowers the family asked that donations be made to a local charity which does fund-raising for colon cancer awareness. Being that Lester...
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Spring Cleaning for Your Blog
The birds are singing, the posies are popping and spring rains are making everything look shiny and new. Here are 10 tips to dust off your blog and give it a fresh spring feel. Update Your About Page...
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St. Patrick’s Day Sale at HostGator
Starting today – Monday, March 16th, 2015 at 12am CST, HostGator is running a St. Patrick’s Day Sale, featuring 55% off all new hosting packages, plus $8 domains! The St. Patrick’s Day Sale will run...
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