So, you’ve got a web site and you need a good stats program. If your hosting plan doesn’t provide something like AWStats or Webalizer, or you just want to see some stats they don’t provide, you’ll likely look to one of the free services out there to analyze your traffic, but which one to choose? [...]
The recent post at Essential Keystrokes about the evolution of Char’s blog got me thinking about the last 6 months and how easy it is to become immersed in a whole new community I had no idea existed. Blogging is addictive. This is not news to most of you.
At the beginning of this year, I [...]
When I was working a “regular” day job and review time would come around, the main thing I looked for was that last page of the review where there were 3 check boxes:
Does not meet expectations
Meets expectations
Exceeds expectations
My main concern as my manager evaluated my performance was that they felt I was exceeding expectations. As [...]
I’ve been experimenting with two feed related things I thought you might be interested in:
Related posts – If you don’t already have the w-a-s-a-b-i related posts plugin installed, you should. There are few things that have increased the pageloads in my sites as much as this plugin. Once that’s installed, you can pick [...]
The blog metaphor group writing project wrapped up recently, and it turns out my post was one of the top 10! What a nice surprise! Turns out everyone in the top 10 will get a free copy of Lorelle’s new book. I’m looking forward to reading it.
Paul Enderson tagged me for the 8 things [...]
Today I am releasing my second theme for Wordpress called “Bluebird”. It’s a blue and brown, three column theme designed for at least 1024×768 resolution. My first theme, Round and Round, has almost 500 downloads, which is a respectable number I guess, but I’m hoping I can beat that with this latest theme. [...]
I am excited to be in on the ground floor of a new monetization opportunity for bloggers and web site owners (thanks to Gayla), and I want to give you the opportunity to get in on it early as well! A leading distributor for Ask.com has a new program called Related Search Ads. It [...]
There’s been an interesting conversation going around lately about metaphors for blogging, and how we might explain blogging to someone who is not familiar with it. Char started it, and then Liz jumped on board, and then about a week ago, Dawud Miracle wrote about his blogging metaphor, a Conga line. And, [...]
With the increasing popularity of the “I Follow Movement”, some have expressed concerns that announcing to the world that you have turned off the rel=”nofollow” code for links in comments will increase the amount of spam your receive. I have been sort of the poster child for I Follow, thanks to the little badge I [...]
With my recent jump to a Page Rank of 5, I’m beginning to consider options for monetizing this site. Not heavily, but I wouldn’t mind selling a few text link ads. While I’ve used Adsense and Commission Junction on other sites, I have not done much in the way of direct selling of ads [...]
