Rule of Thumb: Three or More for Categories
Realizing I probably had too many categories for my posts, well over a hundred, I decided it was time to trim the number down a bit. But what would be the criteria? Certainly dropping-off the single post references made sense. How does one then quantify what constitutes enough for a category? I’ve landed on the […]
Track Specific Information with RSS Feeds
RSS feeds provide a means to extract topical information from a website. Often there are subtopics within a site that hold particular value or interest to me that I want to track. Instead of subscribing to the site as a whole, I often add select feeds to my reader. This can be extremely useful in […]
Handy WordPress Hacks
With a few tweaks in WordPress you can unlock the constraints of the categories and extend them in virtually any direction you want to go. Additionally you can structure your site to have short user-friendly URLs.
Create category based sections. By editing the tabs in your main navigation you can create tabs that index specific […]
16 Simple Steps Towards Becoming a Better Writer
Becoming a better writer is possible for everyone, no matter your educational level or experience. Whether writing an email, a blog post, comments on another blog, or a report at work this skill can be strengthened through some simple steps.
Apply these ideas and I promise you will improve your writing or your money back. […]
My Blog Code of Ethics
Debate over ethics in the corridors of human history has covered every topic from the value of human life to the means of doing business. By its very nature, ethical statements can be both corporate and individual expressions. In order to encourage ethical practice, discussion and expression for bloggers, I have posted the "My Blog […]
10 Ways to Drive Away Traffic from Your Site
Have too much traffic to your site? Want to shew-off a good portion of potential readers? Well, it’s actually quite easy. Just follow these tips and you will alienate many people from frequenting your site, myself included. Here we go, just do the following:
Include pop-up windows. Even one will do the trick. Have it activate […]
Reduce Load Time for Your Blog
Load time for a blog is a really big deal. How well you economize your page will in part determine the amount of traffic to your site. Even though many users are on broadband, there is still a good percent of traffic coming from slow connections due to existing dial-up, wireless and international traffic.
There are […]
MyBlogLog Pitfalls
MyBlogLog is one of the best social media concepts for bloggers. It has many solid features and will likely only get better as it matures. There are a couple of pitfalls however, that it needs to avoid, if it’s going to have lasting value for it’s members.
Spam. Message spam is on the rise. The new […]
Search Engine Optimization Do’s and Don’ts
I’ve been in web development, design and publishing since the mid 1990’s. I think I’ve seen just about every optimization trick in the book. There are many nuances to search engine optimization but if you follow some overarching guidelines, I promise you will grow healthy exposure to your site.
This past month I’ve seen thoughtsparks.net […]
Ten Reasons I’ll Read Your Blog
Your blog is written with a professional and creative tone. Becoming an excellent communicator takes time. No matter where you are starting from, you can improve and develop your voice. I am pleasantly surprised by my twelve year-old’s blog Gloriana’s Book Blog. Call me biased, but for her age I find her short posts entertaining […]
WordPress Plug-in Tips
WordPress, largely due to its huge user base has become a fairly robust blog app. Even for some sites it works well as a limited Content Managed System. As of late there has been an increased proliferation of Plug-ins that make it easy, even for the newbies to web publishing to custom configure their site. […]
Top 20 Reasons I Blog
I’ve read several blogs lately about blog burnout. Wikipedia defines burnout as, "a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest (depersonalisation or cynicism), usually in the work context." Perhaps some folks lose sight of, don’t really know why, get board with or have false expectations for what blogging is about.
I imagine […]
