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February 6, 2012

My February Blogging Challenge

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Sometimes you have to challenge yourself to do better. This month, I’ve challenged myself to blog each and every day to my dating site at 101Date.com. The ‘challenge’ is due to the fact that I’m no longer too keen on the subject and have therefore been very remiss in posting to that blog. Ya, I [...]

WordPress 3.3 Fights with Akismet

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Here’s a heads up about what happens to your Akismet plugin once you install WordPress 3.3 First, ALL comments posted to my blogs were going into spam after I installed WordPress 3.3. Ergo, I wasn’t getting email messages about comments being held in moderation. Thought no one was enjoying my latests posts until I found [...]

148-Point Affiliate Marketer / Blogger Checklist

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This might be the world’s longest checklist for bloggers and affiliate marketers. Don’t let that stop you from becoming a blogger, as many items on the checklist need only be done once (i.e. install your blog), while a number of others are tongue-in-cheek, i.e. eat and sleep. Most items on the checklist are linked to [...]

Hello Sonny

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WordPress 3.3, released on December 12th, is nicknamed Sonny, for jazz saxophonist, Sonny Stitt. Honestly, I wasn’t too jazzed about Sonny when I immediately got a “Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_rtl()” message after the upgrade. Couldn’t even log into the Admin Panel. Grrr. Fortunately, I wasn’t the only blogger who experienced this, so [...]

4 Ways to Give Your Blog a Makeover

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Although there are millions of ways to promote and tweak your blog in technical ways to ensure higher search ratings and better conversion rates, sometimes it helps to step back a bit and think of more general things you can do to give your blog a makeover. If you’ve had a blog for awhile and [...]

What Happened to My Site Traffic?

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Long gone are the days when I would log into statistics interfaces every hour (and more) to see how many visitors my sites had and how much money I’d made by result. And I’d be lying if I told you that I check them faithfully even once a week nowadays. I didn’t realize how complacent [...]

How to Privately Test Drive a New WordPress Theme

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I’m finally getting around to upgrading my last few blogs to the Genesis Framework from StudioPress and have decided to spare my readers the ugliness that usually accompanies such a change. In this video I discuss how to use a plugin that allows you to test drive a new WordPress theme in the background, so [...]