Archive for August, 2008

How Simple Is Your Advertise Page?

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I had an advertiser email me saying that $50 for a 125×125 square on a sidebar was insane… I completely agreed. Until I found out that he was talking about my advertising page and offered me a much lower amount. I didn’t understand where he had read that.. but then I figured out that my [...]

Weekend Wordpress Security Tip: Index.html

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Don’t want people knowing which plugins you have installed on your Wordpress? Don’t want people knowing what version it is? If you haven’t done this fix yet for Wordpress, I can go to http://yourblogurl.com/wp-content/plugins and see everything that you have installed and what version it is.
Not so good for security is it?
The Fix:
Make a blank [...]

Get Some Great TLD Domains For Cheap - .me

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I recently came across the .me TLD to be registered for $20/year.
Considering that there are only 100,000 domains registered so far, some GREAT names were still available, and I ended up buying 5 domains. You may be saying, “But they’re not .com domain names!”, that may be true and since you can get on the [...]

Conducting an Experiment - Advertising And Guest Posts

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I’ve decided to try out a new form of promotion for my blog. It’s called advertising on the sidebar of other blogs. I bought an ad already on Dablogger.com today for $7 (Which I might add is a pretty good deal). I’m going to see how much promotion the advertisements and guest posts actually give [...]

Why I Stay Away From “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade”

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

How would you like to go up to a random stranger, hand them your wallet, and expect them not to take anything?
Your doing the same thing with your blog when you install the “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade” plugin. Not in a million years would I ever install such a plugin to “Automatically” install the latest version [...]

Change Your Wordpress Permalink Structure

Monday, August 4th, 2008

If your serious about S.E.O. and gaining higher rankings on the search engines, you need to change your ‘default’ Wordpress permalink structure into something that includes your keywords. Before we get started, lets find out what a permalink is:

In simple terms, A permalink is the actual URL of an article or blog post. The previous [...]

Best Posts Of July 2008

Friday, August 1st, 2008

We’ve definitely tried to please as many readers as possible this month with several different articles regarding blogging and the internet. Enclosed in this post are the articles that really stand above the rest.
From Brad Blogging:
What would you sell a lifetime link for on your blog? $1000? I’m telling you why that is the worst [...]