Archive for the 'WordPress/Blogging' Category

Why I Don’t Read Your Blog

How many blogs exist? There are about 70 million blogs. A total guess here: I’ve probably heard of or seen links to maybe 1000 of those in all my browsing of the web. Out of those, I might have clicked on 100. So do I read 100 blogs? Do I subscribe to 100 feeds? Nope, [...]

From the BBS to the Blog: How WordPress is Like WWIV

If you’ve been online long enough, you might remember when there was no such thing as MySpace, there was nothing remotely similar to eBay, and you actually personally knew many of the people you chatted with online. (Oh yeah, and going online was done via 2400 baud modem – which was plenty fast.) If you [...]

Don’t Waste Backlinks: Tell Googlebot About Unindexed Referrers with a 3rd-Party Sitemap

Many of you readers are also bloggers – I know this because I sometimes get comments to posts like “Great post!” and there’s a link in there. (That’s fine. I’m glad you stopped by. But say something useful or ask a question if you could – we don’t take kindly to spam ’round these parts.) [...]

Guest Writer Invitation – What Do You Know Best?

Writing is a dirty job…but somebody’s gotta do it. I’m not the only one who should be gettin the money for nothing and the hot chicks for free – so I’d like to let some of you guys be a guest writer on this blog. I will publish one guest article each week, and am [...]

6 Blogging / WordPress Articles Actually Worth Reading

Dontcha hate having to learn stuff by trial-and-error? It’s best to learn things by other people’s experience: it takes less time and is much safer. (Which I guess I could appreciate more if I worked with power saws, for example.) Even in the world of blogging, there are things that can go wrong and it’s [...]