Blogging Basics

Video tutorial: How to add a basic WordPress gallery

January 28, 2010 · 2 Comments

After futzing around with this a bit, I finally mastered the gallery feature. The step most people miss is saving the post as a draft. If you skip that, the gallery option won’t show up. In any case, if you’re adding photos to a basic blog and aren’t using a gallery plug-in like Nex-Gen Gallery, the basic built-in WordPress gallery is there for you. Speaking of galleries… do you have a favorite gallery plug-in? Share it in the comments section. Share and Enjoy: Read More →

SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Basics

November 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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 to beginning of content Keyword appearing in H tags and alt tags (there is dispute over this in the SEO world) Quality links back to your site Organic links Directory links Authority site links The trick, of course, is doing all that optimization to make the search engines... [Read the full story]

Tips & Techniques

Video tutorial: How to use GWA Autoresponder in your WordPress blog or site

February 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Just a short tutorial on how to use the WordPress plugin GWA Autoresponder. It’s a handy, easy-to-use tool to manage your online leads and automate your marketing emails. Share and Enjoy: Read More →

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

Video tutorial: How to use GWA Autoresponder in your WordPress blog or site

February 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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]