Blogging Basics

Understanding WordPress 3.X Menus (Video)

September 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Custom menus allow you to extend your site’s capabilities with easy to use components such as category and recent post listings or even a calendar. You customize menus as follows: 1. Click on Menus in the Appearance module 2. Enter Menu Name then click Save Menu 3. Select your new Menu Name from the drop-list in the Theme Locations section 4. Add links to the menu using the Custom Links, Pages or Categories modules 5. Re-order the menu items as you like, then press Save Menu Enjoy! Read More →

SEO

Scribe SEO for WordPress

November 11, 2010 · Comments Off

If you’re truly focused on getting your rankings up in your search engine, consider investing in Scribe for WordPress (also available for Joomla and Drupal). For a monthly fee you will get a plugin that searches and helps you optimize your posts AS YOU CREATE THEM, right there from your WP dashboard. Find out how Scribe Makes SEO Simple Read More →

Tips & Techniques

Facebook Fan Pages – Software to Make it Simple

February 5, 2013 · Leave a Comment

For many products mentioned on this site, I am an affiliate and will make a commission or some sort if you buy the product listed. That said, I have a personal standard of conduct and do not promote products that I don't personally use and actually like.

I was pretty excited when I saw the new sales page for WP4FP 2.0. That’s the second version of WordPress for Fan Pages (the first version has over 10,000 users). I’ve personally tried several products for creating fan pages, and even worked with a developer to create my own system several years ago. We actually had a working version, and the finishing touch was creating templates, something I never managed to get done… then FB went and changed the sizes and how FB pages were integrated. (Basically my software was just an html editor with places to fill in the blanks. There really... [Read the full story]

Monetizing Your Blog

Google and Amazon partner up, integrate Amazon Associates into Blogger blogs

December 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Monetizing your Blogger blog just got easier. I’m personally thrilled with the addition because I make good money as an Amazon affiliate. Not that I use Blogger that much, but it’s great that it’ll be easier for those that do. Read the announcement about the Google/Amazon partnership One of my favorite blogs is CakeWrecks, and they’re on Blogger. They also just released a new book… imagine how easy it would have been to monetize the sale of their own product had there been an automatic option. In any case, when you log into Blogger and click “monetize”,... [Read the full story]

Plugins

Scribe SEO for WordPress

November 11, 2010 · Comments Off

Themes

Premium Themes: Thesis

March 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Since Thesis is one of the fastest growing themes out there, I figure my review of this package should be one of the first ones I cover (that said, I did have to cover the theme used for this site first!). As I said in a previous post, I’m a big proponent of premium themes. As a designer, it provides me with a great jumping off place, and creating a custom look, along with custom page layouts, and implementing some of the more complex custom features is a breeze. I had the opportunity to work with a client on her blog layout the other day using the Thesis theme. It was great to get to pop... [Read the full story]

SEO

Scribe SEO for WordPress

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Basics

Whether your are blogging or developing another type of website, the basics to SEO remain the same: Good, fresh content Optimized content Meta <Title> Tag containing keyword Meta <Description> Tag containing keyword A reasonable density of the keyword you are targeting in your content Proximity of keyword...

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