Help! Someone is Stealing My Content, What Can I Do?

The following is a guest post by Brandon Hopkins. Hi, my name is Brandon and I’m addicted to link building. Now that we got that out, let me start by telling you that I see opportunities all over the place. One of my favorite methods for building links is to give a full RSS feed on established sites. I know there is still debate on whether or not full RSS feeds are a good idea, but I have good... read more

eBusiness Tips: What You Envision

Much of what happens on your site is directly related to what you envisioned when you created the content on each page. It first happened within your mind, got translated into some form of content on your site, and the result of that gets broadcast to every visitor that stops by. Did your original vision match the final result? Consider the following wise words from ’round the web while you think... read more

Moving Beyond Simple Keyword Research To Developing a Tight Content Strategy

Basic Keyword Research To Determine Niche Potential Of course, one of the first things I tell people when they start thinking about creating an online ebusiness is to do their keyword research. Basic keyword research can reveal a lot about whether or not the potential ebusiness is a viable one. I usually point them to Google’s free keyword tool and tell them to type in the general overall phrase that... read more

How To Style CommentLuv Latest Post Links

When I first heard about CommentLuv a couple of years ago (I think it’s been about that long?), I tried it out and liked it. At some point, the service had some growing pains, and I decided to remove it until they got some things sorted out. Well, as is normal, I ended up forgetting about it completely and never reinstalled it. Until tonight, that is. I’ve been noticing it more and more... read more

Using WordPress as a Traditional CMS

People often want to create a site that doesn’t look like a blog. Usually, if you ask them enough questions, you’ll find that they want to have a site that mostly consists of “static” pages (content which doesn’t change very often). They want a home page that isn’t a list of reverse chronological, ever-changing blog posts. They probably want to include a blog as a... read more

My 10 Favorite WordPress Premium Theme Sites

WordPress premium themes have come a long way in the last few years. They started out by offering just a few special options or a new type of design not commonly used in free themes. But over the years, they’ve blossomed into offering strikingly beautiful, creative, and ingenious designs. Below are my favorite sites to browse when I’m kicking back on a rainy day, looking for inspiration or... read more

One Method To Create Good Content Without Hard Work

Good Content = opportunties to: rank in search engines draw links from other sites convert More Good Content = More opportunties to do the above Good Content = Hard work More Good Content = More hard work Based on those assumptions, many site owners decide to take shortcuts to increase the content on their site, without putting hard work into the process. Some of those shortcuts might work, especially... read more

Act Upon Motivation

For quite a while now, even before the latest design change to this site, I’ve been rotating motivational quotes – first in the sidebar and now in the footer. Go ahead, scroll down to the bottom of this page and look for them. You’ll see in the footer, a column in the middle called “Motivation”. Below that will be two random motivational quotes by someone famous –... read more

Quick WordPress Tip – Leave Yourself A Note On The Dashboard

If you only have one WordPress blog, and never write guest posts elsewhere, you probably are very capable of remembering how to format your posts. I mean, how hard could it be to remember the maximum width to use for images, or which Hx tag (H1, H2, H3…) to separate sections of a post? Right? But try remembering even those two things when you write posts for several blogs. If you’re... read more

Blog and Site Spring Cleaning Day – May 1

Search Engine People proposed a Blog Spring Cleaning Day each year on May 1st. I love this idea, but I think it should be expanded beyond blogs, so I’m going to call it Blog and Site Spring Cleaning Day. Whatever type of web property you own or manage, take some time tomorrow to spruce it up! Some ideas from SEP’s blog post include cleaning up your subject categories, finding and repairing... read more