Archive for February, 2009
Niche Blogging 101 Series: How do you find your Niche to Blog About?
This is part two in an ongoing series about how to start your own Niche Blog. To read the rest of the posts, check out the Niche Blogging 101 page.
This is the most important decision you will make as you begin the journey of developing a niche blog. How you make this decision will guide [...]
Technical Thursday: Moving Content from Another Blog and Doing a 301 Redirect
The thing that inspired this blog was the amount of traffic I was getting on another blog for blogging and Wordpress related posts. I wanted to move that content to a new blog focused on the subject but I didn’t want to lose the search rankings on those posts.
The solution was simple: I moved [...]
Wordpress Wednesday: Savings Goal Tracker Widget for Wordpress
This is one thing that I can’t believe there isn’t a working Wordpress plugin for, a simple savings goal monitor.
Many people like to show off their savings goal on their blogs. It helps motivate them to achieve their goals and gives a personal insight into your goals.
There’s a very cool tool from Dollar Times which [...]
Checking For a Domain Name Safely
When it comes time to brainstorm what domain you’d like to choose for your niche blog, it’s a good idea to use a safe domain checker. Why?
Though it’s frowned upon, some domain registrars monitor when people check for available domains and if they think it might be valuable enough, they’ll snatch if before you have [...]
Theme Tuesday: Studiopress LifeStyle Theme
I love this theme. Simple as that. Studiopress builds the best Wordpress templates out there and they are well worth the money.
The theme I’m featuring this week is the Lifestyle Magazine style theme. I’m using it on my website Anglotopia - in a slightly modified form.
The theme features nested drop down menus for your pages [...]
Drupal Monday: Clearn URLs in Drupal and Godaddy
I like Go Daddy. I know many others out there would rather get their teeth pulled than deal with them, but they’ve worked out all right for me. That may change in the future.
Despite a good relationship with GoDaddy, sometimes things can be a little maddening. Like when you try to turn on Clean URL’s [...]
Niche Blogging 101 Series: What is Niche Blogging?
Blogging is a continually changing content platform. What started out as a way to keep a web diary about what’s going on in your life has turned into a powerful way to create massive websites.
There are many big player bloggers out there, but it’s possible to make a name for yourself in blogging by simply [...]
Technical Thursday: Manually Inserting Ads into Your Wordpress Theme
Getting ads into your blog is the most important aspect of monetizing your blog. There are countless plugins that attempt to make it easier for you to place your ads into your content. While most of them work, a lot of them don’t do exactly what you want. So, what’s the solution Place your ads [...]
Wordpress Wednesday: Wordpress Contact form Solutions
In order to help your blog grow, people need to be able contact you quickly and easily. When I first started out, I had a simple contact form that quickly got deluged with Spammers submitting bogus information, filling up my e-mail box.
I discovered the Wordpress Plugin Secure Contact and used that for the last year. [...]
Theme Tuesday: Dojo Wordpress Theme
This excellent Wordpress theme called Dojo is clean and customizable. It’s 3 columns and the design is standard compliant and quick to load.
It also features a bar on top of the sidebar columns that you can customize with whatever content you want. For example, I would throw a series of ads in that spot and [...]
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