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Reader Question: How Can I Better Monetize my Established Blog?
This is the first post in an ongoing series of reader questions. I’m more than happy to answer reader questions (well, attempt to as least). So feel free to contact me and I’ll be happy to try and help!
This week’s question comes from Clive who runs an established blog called Fan Cinema Today.
Clive’s Question:
I’ve run [...]
Wordpress Wednesday: Free Wordpress Analytics Solutions
The second most important part of Niche Blogging, after content, is keeping track of everything. You need detailed analytics to understand who your readers are, what they’re reading and what is most popular content you’re creating.
There are many options out there for using Analytics on your Wordpress blog. Which one you choose will become an [...]
Theme Tuesday: Mimbo Magazine Theme
Mimbo Theme is a pretty slick Magazine Style 3 columned theme. It’s well designed and well programmed. I’m using on one of my blogs, Austerity Blog and it’s worked out very well. It’s easy to place ads, your readers have easy access to more of your content and it integrates thumbnail images nicely. I’m probably [...]
Drupal Tips Monday: Install Drupal the Easy Way
If you’re new to Drupal, simply installing it can be an intimidating proposition. Especially if you don’t know your SQL server from your FTP. If you don’t want to mess about doing all the hard work of installing a basic installation of Drupal, then let someone else do it for you.
This tool is not very [...]
Drupal Tips Monday: When to use Drupal?
I get this question a lot: When should you use Drupal over other content management systems such as Wordpress?
The only easy answer is: it depends.
To understand why, let’s explore a few things about Wordpress and Drupal.
Wordpress
Wordpress is a fantastically flexible blogging platform. It looks great, has a strong backend and is very easy to use.
Wordpress [...]
Theme Tuesday: Corporate Theme from StudioPress
There is now a great new Corporate Theme solution from hit premium theme company, StudioPress. It replaces their Office theme that used to be a hallmark of the RevolutionTwo theme line.
This theme is ten times better and more full featured. It features many ways for you to display your company’s content. It features that fantastic [...]
Drupal Tips Monday - Moderating Content
I run a couple Drupal websites that rely on user submissions to fill the site with content. As spammers discovered the site though, it became clear that I was going to have to moderate all incoming posts so that garbage didn’t get automatically posted.
I also like to control when content gets published so that it [...]
Niche Blogging 101 Series: How to Research Your Niche
This is part three 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.
Last week we covered the topic of how to find a niche for you to blog about. This week we’re going to discuss researching that niche [...]
Technical Thursday: Creating a Simple Photo Gallery
This week’s Technical Thursday post comes via another blog post I found about how to automatically generate a photo gallery from a directory of images.
The tutorial guides you through all the processes you need to create the gallery and it also includes the files. Learning how to do this is a great springboard into developing [...]
Theme Tuesday: Arthemia Wordpress Theme
Author’s Note: Many apoligies for the lateness of this post.
This week’s featured theme is Arthemia Free by Michael Jubel. It’s a very well packaged magazine style theme, perfect for taking your niche blog beyond simply being a blog.
The design is clean and the theme is relatively easy to use. It also boasts a stack of [...]
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