8 Tools to Help You Find the Right Domain Name
Published August 23rd, 2007 in Tools - 55 Comments
Name Boy is a free tool that lets you enter a primary word and a secondary word, and then Name Boy finds available domain names that are relevant to those words. It presents results for .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .tv extensions. And (of course) they make it easy to buy the domain names [...]
Blogging for Service Providers
Published August 22nd, 2007 in Blog Promotion - 6 Comments
Blogs come in all different varieties with different goals. One way of making money (indirectly) with your blog is to use it as a vehicle to sell yourself. This approach works very well for service providers, as it separates you from the competition. Even if you are not directly profiting from the blog, there are [...]
Top 10 SEO-Related WordPress Plugins
Published August 21st, 2007 in WordPress - 56 Comments
The quality and quantity of available plugins can often influence bloggers to choose WordPress when setting up a new blog. However, sometimes the huge number of plugins can become confusing and frustrating. There are several very good plugins that have been developed to enhance the search engine optimization of your blog. Here are 10 of [...]
Creating a More Valuable Blog for Your Readers
Published August 20th, 2007 in Blogging - 30 Comments
Most of us as bloggers and website owners devote so much of our focus on increasing the value of our visitors to us that we neglect to focus on our value to the readers. If we dedicate our efforts to creating more valuable and useful content for our readers, the natural progression is that readers [...]
Effectively Testing Your Website in Multiple Browsers
Published August 19th, 2007 in Design - 95 Comments
As a website designer you have the ability to create an attractive and functional design. Unfortunately, you do not have the ability to control which internet browsers will be using to view your site. Because each browser behaves differently you will need to test your projects in multiple browsers. In most cases the variation from [...]
Weekly Links
Published August 18th, 2007 in Links, Uncategorized - 28 Comments
Hacking Ultimate Tag Warrior to Create Better Tag Pages from Courtney Tuttle. A very useful article about the popular WordPress plugin. The Secret to Freelance Blogging from Chris Garrett. Are you interested in making some money writing for blogs? Read this article. How to Double Your Customer Base Without Spending a Penny from Freelance Folder. [...]
10 Tips for Making Your Blog Posts More del.icio.us
Published August 15th, 2007 in Social Media - 55 Comments
Like the other leading social media websites, del.icio.us can be a great source of traffic for your blog. In order to make the most of del.icio.us, follow these steps and you’ll be on your way to driving thousands of new visitors to your blog. 1 – Use Powerful Headlines/Titles Headlines and Titles are always important [...]
101 Ways to Monetize Your Website or Blog
Published August 13th, 2007 in Make Money - 237 Comments
Text Link Advertising Text Link Ads (aff.) – The leader in paid text link ads. LinkWorth – Keep up to 70% of the ad revenue. Text Link Brokers – Make money buy selling links in a directory on your site. Live Customer – Static HTML ads with flat monthly rates. LinkAdage – Matches advertisers with [...]
User’s Guide to Google Webmaster Tools
Published August 12th, 2007 in Tools - 12 Comments
Google’s Webmaster Tools can be very useful for website owners, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re not sure what is available and how to use it. We’ll take a step-by-step look at the free tools available and how to use them. If you don’t already have a Google Webmaster Tools account, you can [...]
Weekly Links
Published August 9th, 2007 in Links - 2 Comments
How to Get into the Google TrustBox from Blog Storm How to Display the Number of Del.icio.us Saves from Paul Stamatiou Bulletproof Web Design (Second Edition) is a book written by Dan Cederholm. The Second Edition, just released, is obviously an update to the first edition, which I highly recommend. Google Hack: Finding Supplemental Results [...]
