How To Boost Your Blog By Going ‘Under the Hood’
If you’re sick of me bragging about my twelve years as a blogger, good news:
I’m now in year #13.
Pretty much everything I know about blogging, I picked up via trial and error.
I taught myself HTML Rosetta Stone-style, by peeking at other sites’ source code to see how they achieved particular effects.
I also noted the way popular sites “hat-tipped” other sites when they found something juicy there, and how they thanked other blogs that linked to them.
I still strongly recommend trial and error as a learning method, especially the “error” part: there are few things more indelible than our own embarrassing mistakes.
(Even better, learn from other people’s mistakes to avoid making your own in the first place.)
However, I’m happy to pass along a few blogging tips.
These ones take you “under the hood” to make changes your readers won’t see — but will definitely notice…
Also, some of us want to remain anonymous in a blog because of the nature of our day jobs. Can you tell us how to do that?
Also, some of us want to remain anonymous in a blog because of the nature of our day jobs. Can you tell us how to do that?
If you've ever thought of firing up a blog or web site, I highly recommend you start here:
<a href="http://www.docswordpressguide.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.docswordpressguide.com</a>
The site is geared toward newbies so the setup instructions are as clear as they can be. The WordPress download package also contains a number of themes and plugins to spare you the hassle of spending hours trying to track them down.
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If you've ever thought of firing up a blog or web site, I highly recommend you start here:
<a href="http://www.docswordpressguide.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.docswordpressguide.com</a>
The site is geared toward newbies so the setup instructions are as clear as they can be. The WordPress download package also contains a number of themes and plugins to spare you the hassle of spending hours trying to track them down.
And, if you want a web site rather than a blog site, there's a whole section on how to tweak WordPress to get rid of the things that give it that bloggy look, like "Author", "Category", the comments section, etc.
I say, go for it!
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Expert's advice and SEO are similar to visiting Holiday Inns. No matter when you go, where you go or how much you pay for your room, the lobbies all use the same plastic plants they have since day one and the odds of bedbug bites keep going higher.
The simple truth is, if you have a good product then one, straight forward, simple, never changing web page is enough.
For example, the entire world has been studying Drudge Report for many years now. They're trying to figure out how one guy, with a cat and hat in a room can make himself rich and famous peddling other people's trash for free.
Expert's advice and SEO are similar to visiting Holiday Inns. No matter when you go, where you go or how much you pay for your room, the lobbies all use the same plastic plants they have since day one and the odds of bedbug bites keep going higher.
The simple truth is, if you have a good product then one, straight forward, simple, never changing web page is enough.
For example, the entire world has been studying Drudge Report for many years now. They're trying to figure out how one guy, with a cat and hat in a room can make himself rich and famous peddling other people's trash for free.
For me it would be nice to have a sense of the general geography of readers, so I know what accent will work and most importantly what jokes to employ.
For me it would be nice to have a sense of the general geography of readers, so I know what accent will work and most importantly what jokes to employ.