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• Getting more visitors to your old website content: Hi everybody! Gary has invited me to guest post here about a nifty method I have discovered recently on how to improve the search engine rankings of your online ramblings [...]
• Tips for writing titles, articles for your website or blog: Here are a few tips to help you write titles and articles for content on your website or blog: 1. Write a title that’s a “grabber,” and that contains your [...]
• Question for bloggers: How much research do you do for a post?: This question is aimed at bloggers, but certainly I would appreciate comments from any of you who do online writing of any sort: How much research do you do for [...]
• Do you blog? Would you like to? Here are some ideas to get you started: I have a question for all you bloggers out there: How do you decide what you’re going to write about? I’ve known many people in the last few years who [...]
• When is a blog not a blog? Is a blog the same as a website?: The questions I’ve asked in the title to this blog post are not rhetorical. They are real questions an online pal of mine asked me recently. This person, who is [...]
• Any of you writers using netbooks? Any you’d recommend?: I’ve come into a tiny bit of extra money recently and I’m about to take the plunge and buy a “netbook,” a strange breed of writing tools that didn’t even [...]
• Tip about blogging: Don’t sp*m comments; most blogs ‘nofollow’ comments: Here’s a little tip for bloggers, mostly for those who post comments on blogs; SPECIFICALLY for those of you who try to sp*m this and other blogs with idiotic comments [...]
• Have I mentioned ‘The Keyword Academy’ for making money writing online?: It occurs to me that I may never have mentioned The Keyword Academy to my faithful followers here as a terrific site to learn about making money by writing website [...]
• Internet blurs line between written word, video: I’m discovering daily at how the Internet continues to “blur” the line between plain written words and video, in everything from off line publications to online design and content of [...]
• How are ‘smartphones’ changing your life as a writer?: How are “smartphones” changing your life as a writer? Or are they? I confess that I’m sort of a “Luddite” when it comes to cutting edge high-tech (if you’ve been [...]
• Ho Ho Ho — How about some sp*m for the holidays?: I’ve been doing this blog for several years now. Sometimes, I confess, I don’t get around as often as I’d like, and I haven’t that much to say related directly [...]
• Here’s a different perspective on SEO; take a look: If you do any blogging on online writing trying to make money in any way, you certainly have seen or heard the term “SEO.” The letters stand for “search engine [...]
• Idiotic sp*mmers never give up, do they?: One of the irritating things about trying to publish a blog regularly is that you have to put up with all sorts of idiotic sp*mmers. I use the “*” instead [...]
• Goodbye Twitter, hello all my blogging friends: Sometimes you make a decision and you just feel downright good and RIGHT about it. I did that about 10 minutes ago when I deleted my Twitter account, freeing up [...]
• Let me repeat: We had a commenting problem, but it’s fixed now: A couple of days ago I warned all you WordPress bloggers out there to be aware of possible plugin conflicts and other strange glitches that might happen to your blog. [...]
• Heads-up for bloggers who use WordPress — watch those plugins: This is a heads-up for all you bloggers out there who use WordPress — watch those plugins. I had a very bad experience with two specific plugins in recent weeks, [...]
• Question for bloggers: Are you making good money with AdSense?: This is just for you bloggers out there reading this: Are any of you making good money running Google’s AdSense ads on your blogs? I ask because I’ve never been [...]
• Recycling older posts leads to some date confusion: I mentioned in some recent “recycled” posts here that I’m using a plugin which pulls old posts from the “back” or “bottom” of the blog to the “front” or “top” [...]
• Tip: Blog about what you love, even if you don’t ‘know’ much about it: My remarks about blogging today may sound a little like the old line, “Just fake it ’til you get it right” — but that’s not really what I mean when [...]
• Why do people sign up for a blog using some idiotic, spammy name?: One of the great mysteries I find about running blogs is that some people register using obviously false names and email addresses. And usually those usernames and/or email addresses are [...]
• Heads-up for new bloggers: Beware of ‘MFA’ approach: I’m sure most bloggers already know the fundamental warning about “MFA” sites — beware of turning your blog into one. For those of you who don’t know the acronym, an [...]
• Basic tip for Internet writers: Visitors don’t really READ what’s on your website: If I could only share one or two “tips” for Internet writing, the most important would be this: Visitors who come to your website don’t really READ what you put [...]
• This just in: Spanish company to put tiny solar powered ‘netbook’ on market: All right, for all you computer geeks and mini-geeks out there, I just read a newsletter article about “Gyy,” perhaps a pioneer in the next generation of laptop and other [...]
• Would you pay to read this blog? Would you pay to read it on Kindle?: Amazingly enough, I just discovered that the new electronic “library machine,” or however Amazon bills it — Kindle 1 and it’s new, bigger brother Kindle DX — is actually accepting [...]
• Anybody using ‘GWA WordPress Autoresponder’ to send out blog newsletters?: Anybody out there using a WordPress plugin called the “GWA WordPress Autoresponder” to send out a newsletter for their blog? I purchased the “Pro” version of that plugin at a [...]
• Where do you find your writing ideas?: No matter what you write about, at some point you’ve probably been asked by someone, “Where do you find your writing ideas?” I’ve read and heard interviews with best-selling authors [...]
• Does your blog target worldwide web or is it more local?: I have to ask all of you who blog regularly: Does your blog target the Worldwide Web (www), or is it more of a local blog? I’ve been reading a [...]
• Heads-up to those who sign up for this blog …: I have no requirements whatsoever that you be a “member” or that you be “logged in” to post a comment on this blog. I made the decision some months ago, [...]
• Recycling blog posts? Yeah, I sort of am …: … and it’s worth a little explanation of how and what I’m doing with older posts, for those of you out there who blog. I’m using a plugin called the [...]
• Exciting to see many writing, publishing options available online: Back in those stirring days of yesteryear, opportunities for a writer to be published were much slimmer than they are today. It’s exciting to see how many types of writing [...]
• Tip for bloggers: Focus more on content than appearance: Here’s a tip for all you bloggers out there: Work more on the content of your blog and less on the appearance of it. I’ll bet I’m not the only [...]
• Here’s an excellent discussion about blogging, planning a blog: Not long ago, I recommended a blog called “Friday Traffic Report” as an excellent source of information for writers specifically interested in blogging. I want to call your attention to [...]
• More ramblings about the Internet and journalism: I wrote last week lamenting the sorry state of journalism, and of print journalism in particular. In that post, I suggested that the Internet and widespread cable/satellite television were the [...]
• Quick tip with link for all you WordPress bloggers out there: Here’s a quick tip with a valuable link for all you WordPress bloggers out there who may be a little disenchanted with the administration area of the new 2.7 version. [...]
• Earth to Me: Make up my mind on a site theme, please: Okay, yeah, I know. If you come here regularly, you’ve seen the basic look and “feel” of the site change several times in recent weeks. Heck, you’ve seen it change [...]
• Question to all you bloggers: Do you use WordPress?: Open question to all of you bloggers who are reading this: Do you use WordPress? If not, what blogging/website building software DO you use? If you’ve been blogging or building [...]
• What are you looking for when you register for a blog? Are you expecting a newsletter?: On most days, I get two or three people or more who register when they visit this blog. Each time someone registers, I get an email notifying me of the [...]
• Benefit from keywords in titles when you add a blog to a website: What can you do to benefit from keywords if you already have a website and want to add a blog? You already have a name for your website, you already [...]
• Try to use targeted keywords in the name of your blog or website: When you create a blog or website, try to use a name that people might search for in Google and it could pay off for you in free search engine [...]
• Internet writing — look for ‘long tail keywords’ to draw web traffic: Sometimes I assume, since I write a lot of content for my affiliate marketing websites and I write several blogs, that most people reading my writing understand and use concepts [...]
• Useful tips for using AdSense on your website: One of the ways you can make at least a bit of money through your Internet writing and blogging work is to use Google AdSense on your site. If you [...]
• Features of newest WordPress 2.6: Here’s a short video from the WordPress people about the newly released version 2.6. I’m always personally a little hesitant to upgrade too quickly to any version of any software [...]
• My Western blog project has been reborn — have a look, but be gentle: I posted here a couple of days ago regarding a writing project I felt compelled to abandon because of possible copyright problems. I “killed” the “Tales of the Old West” [...]
• Killing a writing project can be like murdering an old friend: I love reading and writing about the “Old West,” that part of American history related to westward expansion, settlement, and “rip roarin’” cowboys and the whole works. You’ll remember from [...]
• After a month or so, I’m not really in love with the new look for WordPress: For all you bloggers out there who use WordPress, have you switched to the new 2.5.x version yet? It’s been out now about a month — a few days ago [...]
• Do you do non-blog websites? Here’s something you might consider — WordPress: I don’t know how many of you build websites or write content for websites that are not blogs, but I’m sure some of you do such things. If so, you [...]
• Here’s how to get your blog listed and active in Yahoo’s RSS system: I had a private response to my post of a few days ago, with one of our readers asked me how to get a blog into the Yahoo “modules” that [...]
• Wow, where have I been for the last few days? Spring catching up with me, I guess: Welcome back — to myself. I guess the busy-ness of the season, the alternating cold weather and torrential, tornadic downpours — it’s a conspiracy, I tell ya, a conspiracy to [...]
• If you blog with WordPress, be aware of widget woes if you upgrade to 2.5: Just a “heads up” if you blog with WordPress and are considering the upgrade to their newest version 2.5. I upgraded one of my blogs a few days ago. They [...]