Getting traffic to your blog or site is not always easy especially when it is new. If you have an old blog or if you have moved from blogger blog to WordPress, you can try this method. Even if you have pre-written content, you can use this technique to get traffic. It takes less time and is also effective. But if you choose to follow this technique, be sure you don’t copy and paste the same content which you have already written. Here’s how you can get traffic using the…

If you Google “stop image theft“, you will get some results of some really bad, non-effective ways of preventing image theft. Things like “disabling right-click” with JavaScript. Crippling usability is never good, especially when it will barely even slow down someone determined to steal your image. This is kind of like strip searching kindergardeners because one of them brought a knife to school once.

There are two different types of “theft” of images. One type is direct “hotlinking” of the image. That is, displaying the image on a third party website…

“Blog” is an everyday term now (except in my Microsoft Word program for some reason), but most of us can remember a time when the idea of keeping a journal on the internet seemed strange and bizarre. (And another time when the idea of the internet itself seemed strange and bizarre, of course.) Have you ever wondered who the first bloggers were, and what prompted them to share their lives with the world? Let us unearth some of that ancient history.

What many claim to be the earliest blog started in…

I check Google Trends several times a day as a way to keep track of what people are searching for and bringing in some traffic. While this has proven quite useful for my celebrity blog, it’s come in handy for other niches as well. For instance, on the morning of Valentine’s Day I noticed the number search was for “free Valentine’s Day e-cards.”

With this in mind, I posted “5 Places to Find Free Valentine’s Day E-Cards” on my Simply Thrifty blog. Soon after, Simply Thrifty was the number two blog on…

For most bloggers the biggest challenge is to gain and keep readers. We are all working to gain the attention of as many pairs of eyes as we possibly can. It’s silly to think we can gain the interest of every person that should happen upon your blog. But for the ones that do come and are interested in what we blog about we surely want to win them over and gain their trust.

With that said, lets talk about some of the things you could and should do to win…