I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while this weekend and he expressed to me his plan to start a blog and jump into this “new blogging thing”. He sounded pretty enthusiastic about it and we talked a little about how he was going to go about getting into blogging. He had [...]
December 2009
WordPress is great right out of the box, but the default setup leaves many areas for improvement. Here are just 5 things you could do to boost performance, SEO or usability. Boost your page serving speed You can use a caching plugin to speed up your blog, but you could also add a snippet of [...]
Two weeks ago I wrote a little opinion piece about changing the color of your Twitter avatar to show support for a cause. My wife and I don’t agree on everything, and when I spout off with something like this I try to keep her eyes from seeing this blog for a little while. For [...]
I don’t remember how I heard of zimbio.com, but a few years back is when I started using them. If you don’t know, Zimbio is a collaborative online magazine with thousands of contributors. People either syndicate their blog content with them or directly write articles for publication. It is a very popular site that receives [...]
Are you putting all your eggs in the search engine basket when it comes to building your blog? Focusing your efforts on search engines to bring in visitors and build a reader base is a good way to build up your blog, but if it is the only method you are using then you are [...]
Do you know what day it is? It’s Follow Friday! People are going to be handing out recommendations to their followers, giving them advice on who they should follow. Bundles of names will clog up Twitter timelines while tributes are passed around like Valentine’s Day cards. Everyone is going to have a great time and [...]
Off the top of your head, name three blogs that you follow religiously. Are you done? Now give the reasons why you follow them. Chances are good that the reason you keep visiting these blogs is because you continue to receive something of value from them. The value you receive from these blogs can come [...]
If you’re anything like me, then you hate it when you are on a slow-loading website or blog. In this time where high-speed internet is freely available, you expect your web browsing to reflect that and not resemble dial-up speeds. Unfortunately, even with broadband internet, sometimes blogs do not run at optimal speeds. If your [...]
I don’t know if you noticed this or not, but yesterday I flipped my Twitter account on its ear. I changed my username, started a new account under my old name (@robmcguire), and then announced on my old account where people could find me if they wanted to reconnect. This wasn’t an accident; I chose [...]