The 7th in the series of… 20 Secret Blogging Tips in 20 Days! Are we near the end yet? ;) Check out the bottom of this post to see the rest. You already know how to add images to your posts. The legal kind, right? Perhaps you are like me and add a few images to your posts. You do? Yay …
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Setting up your Permalinks
The 6th in the series of... 20 Secret Blogging Tips in 20 Days! I'm hoping I can make it to 7. Check out the bottom of this post to see the rest. Today's topic: Permalinks! What's a Permalink? The simplest answer would be... it's the direct URL for a particular post or page on a …
Setup an Author Box and give your Authors some Love
This is the 5th in the series of (that's 5ive in a row!) 20 Secret Blogging Tips in 20 Days! I'm getting dizzy with so many topics spinning about. Check out the bottom of this post to see the rest. Yesterday we worked on your Byline. Today we'll setup the Author Box and even give you a …
How to setup your Byline – and why it’s important
This is the 4th in the series of (we're on a roll!) 20 Secret Blogging Tips in 20 Days! Pay no attention to man behind the curtain (creating the order in which these appear), he's clearly delusional. Check out the bottom of this post to see the rest. What's your name? That's right. …
How to find and use Images and not get sued
This is the 3rd in the series of 20 Secret Blogging Tips in 20 Days! There’s no rhyme or reason to the order. Check out the bottom of this post to see the rest. I've written extensively about finding images for your wordpress blog posts before. I even shared a great plugin called …
WordPress Basics: What to write about
This is the 2nd in the series of 20 Secret Blogging Tips in 20 Days! There's no rhyme or reason to the order. Check out the bottom of this post to see the rest. Ok, so you have a blog and you know you are supposed to write something - but what do you write about? No problem, we've got you …
WordPress Basics: Username and Password Security
This is the 1st in the series of 20 Secret Blogging Tips in 20 Days! Check out the bottom of this post to see the rest. What better place to start than then place where you start? Your Login. Why? You may have recently seen in the news that Wordpress sites were under attack. …
20 Secret Blogging Tips in 20 Days
It's June 1st. and it's a time when things typically slow down. Schools are getting out, family vacations, Bar-b-ques, road trips. It's also a time when website owners (bloggers) slow down too. I know the feeling. You want to write a blog post but other things just keep getting in the way. …
Marketing and the Science behind a Late Apex
Should every marketing person have an experience in motor racing? If they did, they would know why Corner Exit Speed is so important to success. Here's the thought... Corners connect the straightaways. Given two racers, the one who exits the corner fastest will then continue that edge in …
25 names for your new blog
I read a lot of blogs in my feedreader. Most are named pretty straight forward, some have a slight twist of pun to them, and then there are those few that might as well be the names of Punk Rock Bands. As I build new sites for clients the first thing they need to do is have a domain name. The …
WordPress Basics: Adding ‘More’ tag
Some of my favorite blog posts come from questions. Like this one. Do you know what he means by that? You've seen blog posts or articles that go so far and then have a small little "...read more" or "next", right? That's what he wants to do. But then, websites these days can have …
3 Ways To Get More Comments
Just writing blog posts and having little or no comments or social sharing makes one feel very lonely. I don't want my friends to feel like they are walking across the desert all alone so earlier this month I challenged myself to comment more on their posts. Besides commenting, I also wanted to …