Monthly Archives: October 2009
5 Fast Ways to Speed Up Your Blog
Design & Coding Every time someone visits your site, your blog is in a race against the clock. The time between when a user will click the link to your site and can actually read your words is limited. Too long and people just click away. Though, with high-speed Internet becoming as prevalent as it has, these issues have become somewhat less important, though that same speed, combined with instant streaming videos and audio, seems to have frayed people’s ...
Continue readingWhy You Should Host a Guest Blogger
Blogging Go ahead, take a day off. You’ve earned it. Your blog really can live without you, at least for a day or two. That is, if you do it right, and for the right reasons. Sometimes it can be good thing to just get out of the way. To step aside and hand the baton to someone else, while you reap the benefits of your hospitality from the cheap seats. Especially when that someone has a bigger name than you do. W hich, unless ...
Continue readingHow plugins can hurt your search engine rankings
Search Engine Optimisation I read an article from Mihaela Lica today on SitePoint entitled ‘Bad Nested Code Could Hurt Your SE Rankings‘. In the article she talks about how badly or improperly nested code can hurt your search engines and notes that plugins are one of the biggest causes of this. One of the examples she uses is the use of the popular What Would Seth Godin Do WordPress plugin. She notes: If you set the plugin to add this welcome message before ...
Continue readingHow the Easter Bunny Can Help Your Blog
Blogging Earlier this week I mentioned that current events can help you gain readers and traffic back to your site, if you can relate your blog back to anything that is going on in the news. This concept holds true for upcoming events as well, as some readers will begin to turn to your blog as a resource as they prepare for it themselves. Upcoming events could consist of things like holidays or special occurrences, from Christmas to Presidential ...
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Why IntenseDebate Beats Echo
Blogging I’ve changed the commenting system on my WordPress blog again, and this time I’ve chosen IntenseDebate. In the end the niggles in JS-Kit Echo proved too much, though I still think it has a lot of potential. So, after a couple of weeks with ID, how does it stack up? Let’s start at the beginning. First of all, here’s a quick roundup of the main features of IntenseDebate: It works with WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and Tumblr ...
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