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Analytics doesn’t work and possibly never did. For days, months and many years I sat at my desk agonizing over my Analytics traffic reports. I tried different plugins, placed the code directly in the template header, changed themes, you name it I tried it, but still my traffic was lower than I thought […]
Granted, many times ‘Success’ is in the eye of the beholder. To me, successful means making enough to pay the bills, not being the most popular blog around. But that’s not the point of this post …….. this is Why You will Never be a Successful Blogger Last weekend I sat down to pull […]
PLEASE NOTE: This post was written (extremely quickly) for my writers to get them writing as soon as possible. How to Make a No Follow Link First you need to add a link. That’s pretty simple and you probably already know how to do it. If you don’t, here is a 5 second reminder. 1. […]
FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, LinedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Google Plus, RSS feed, Newsletters, Triberr, Flickr ….. just to name the top few! Technically I don’t think RSS feed, Newsletters or Triberr count as social media, but if you’re not using them you’re probably missing out on some kind of traffic. As you can see by the top […]
As I sit here writing I’ve realized that if I never see FaceBook again it would be to soon. Today I scheduled 15 images to be posted at various times between today and tomorrow on my FaceBook Fan Page. I know that doesn’t sound bad until you realize that FaceBook doesn’t show your Fan Page […]
This was written mostly for my clients, but everyone who is using cPanel should know how to back up their website and back it up often. If you are one of my clients with your own hosting I will typically backup your site and you will need to login to cPanel to download the backup […]
Over the last few weeks I have come to learn that Shareaholic is hijacking bloggers links without the bloggers knowledge, compromising bloggers tweets by allowing the linking of Shareaholic accounts, and several other topics that you can read about in my last 2 posts: Remove the Shareaholic Plugin Immediately! Threat! and Why You Should Remove […]
Shareaholic I want to make sure everyone understands why there is a danger to leaving the Shareaholic plugin installed. This has happened: A fellow blogger who only knows me from FaceBook contacted me and asked “eDee, I’ve locked myself out of my blog. I know you’re a programmer, could you do me a solid and […]
Eliminate Comment Spam Maybe not eliminate spam all together, but this little trick has eliminated 99% of the 120+ comment spam I receive every day. Now real spam goes into my spam folder and the real comments don’t. I don’t know about you, but I’ve run into more problems with plugins that assume it knows […]
SEO Friendly Images A few days ago I posted about SEO Friendly Posts, today I’m going to talk about SEO Friendly Images. BlogSpot.com users can benefit from these examples since the code is the same, however this was written for those using a real blog – self-hosted with the WordPress Program. Again, please remember […]
How to Write a Blog Post There are many different ways to write a blog post, but no one starts out writing the advanced version of a blog post with multiple headings for each paragraph. Here you will be learning the basics that will hopefully get your site noticed. Once you’re comfortable with […]
Blogging Secrets 1. Don’t stop You have to build a blog in order to have a blog. You can’t start a blog today and expect to have traffic tomorrow. It takes time. You have to keep the content coming in order to gain traffic. 2. Engage the public every chance you get If […]