16 September 2008 ~ View Comments

Web Hosting Woes

I recently ran into some major issues with my hosting company. I won’t bother naming them, but I promise you would recognize the name if I did. What was the issue? Apparently, a few of my readers found something I had written here quite useful and submitted my post to StumbleUpon. Having a reader submit [...]

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01 September 2008 ~ View Comments

YouTube – What Are Your Weaknesses?

An interview question that I couldn’t answer. What’s your answer?

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04 June 2008 ~ View Comments

How To Run a Contest On Your Blog

One of the best things you can do to drive traffic to your blog is to run a contest. I recently came across a blog doing just that with some awesome prizes. Visit the site and enter the contest here. How Does A Contest Get Me Traffic? Well, don’t you like to win stuff? Of [...]

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24 May 2008 ~ View Comments

Zemanta Made My Blog Fun Again…Kinda

Image by chucks via Flickr Zemanta is a plugin for Firefox (also for Flock) which suggests images and links to articles that you may wish to insert into your post. It has support for WordPress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com, and self-hosted WordPress installs v2.0 and up. The concept is awesome because this would make it much easier [...]

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07 May 2008 ~ View Comments

WordPress 2.5.1 Migration and Redirect

So, I decided to go ahead and upgrade WordPress since I was tired of seeing the damned reminder in the admin area. In the process, I figured I might as well move WP to my top-level (if you recall, it was stored at /blog) and slap on a snazzy theme. Still working on the “snazzy [...]

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05 May 2008 ~ View Comments

Get Your Blog Google-Ranked In 30 Days or Less?

WebProNews has an interesting article about getting your blog ranked. They tell you to forget about PageRank. Hey….I’m down with that.

“Blogs have been around long enough to become standard elements of the web landscape. They’re easy to construct and manage, they create fresh, user-generated content and, if well-executed, blogs draw crowds and the attention of search engines.

Whether starting out with a new domain name, or a domain that’s been around for a decade, you can rank your blog on Google if you just do what Google wants you to do. So here are 25/50 tips to get your blog ranked by the world’s biggest SE.”

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