Category Archives: Contemplation

The Mindless Following Mentality Of The Internet

The Mindless Following Mentality Of The Internet: Want to know why its so hard to start up a new blog, taking months to grow the site as well as increase traffic? It’s because your a nobody, at least, not yet in the eyes of the average internet user. It just drives me crazy the amount [...]
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The Worst WordPress Update… Ever.

So Brad.. What did you do today? Screwed up my blog, and then spent the entire day trying different ways to fix it. Once fixed, I uploaded a backup of a theme that I stupidly didn’t backup until a week ago. Then I spent time customizing the theme to what it was before. Brad – [...]
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Resurrecting Your Old Posts From The Archives

Its a lot of work writing articles for a blog – anyone that has one will know what I am talking about. It’s great to have some articles reach the top of google and get lots of traffic from it, but others simply vanish behind the “Next Page” button at the bottom of your first [...]
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Trying To Understand The New Plugin: Liz Comment Counter

I saw this new plugin in my blog dashboard this morning called, “Liz Comment Counter“. It’s description is as follows: Liz Strauss Comment Counter is a highly configurable badge (very similar to the Feedburner one, except it’s more configurable) to show off the number of comments your blog has. Now, I know the author took [...]
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Posting “Link-Love” To Gain Blogger Respect

Time and time again in my email, I see blog posts that highlight interesting posts from other blogs on Sunday. I just took a moment to think, “How could that help somebodies blog?”. I mean sure it gives back-links to other blogs, but theirs no real benefit to doing it for yourself. Then the answer [...]
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$1000 For A Link? – Selling Yourself SHORT of value

If I emailed you today and said, “I’ll give you $1000 dollars for 6 permanent links on your blog – Not on your homepage” would you accept it? That is the exact thing that happened to Darren Rowse over at Problogger.net (Story) and he declined the offer. Obviously a blog of his magnitude would not [...]
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      Brad Ney

      I am a Wordpress enthusiast, part-time website designer, and enjoy using the latest technology via the internet for website promotion.I enjoy writing about startup websites, XHTML, CSS, Wordpress based on what I've learned in the industry.