Through the years in blogging and business, I’ve met some wonderful entrepreneurial bloggers. One of them is Carrie Lauth. She’s also someone I’ve met in person twice. Sweet and make no mistake, very sharp. She emailed me this 15 page report, packed with 100 blogging tips she’s learned over her 5 years of blogging. Some really good stuff in there my friends. Carrie has graciously allowed me to share it with you, no strings attached. Download 100 Blogging Tips Here And if you like it, pass it on!
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While others are thinking up ways to celebrate Valentines, us entrepreneurs are busy thinking up ways to promote our products or affiliate products. I understand its not always easy to come up ideas that’s why our fabulous team from Blog Energizer put together 22 Valentine blogging ideas for you. Many of them are easy to monetize as well. There’s only a few days but there’s still time. Download this blogging cheat sheet here. Photo by Paula Pandey Chhetri
I love WordPress plugins. Really do. They make the system so much fun to use. In fact, we put out a little plugin of our own, more to come too. The problem however is how many do you need and I mean really need? I’ve seen installations with 20 and more and for a while in the early days I did have quite a long list. But as WordPress matures, many plugins have become obsolete or are well on their way. It’s a good idea to occasionally re-evaluate your plugin usage. Is it really serving the purpose or just adding more distraction to your blog. Especially if this is a blog where you make money from or one that supports an existing business. The other reason – conflicts. Personally, I’ve been lucky. There aren’t very many plugins I’ve used that interfere with each other but there are some out there that do. It’s the classic case of the more stuff you throw in there, the clunkier it will become. In looking through my own list on the blogs and on my computer hard drive – yes, I have my own little huge private collection of plugins, here are some I’m Read More→
Last week when I wrote about uploading more than the obvious: images, audios, videos in WordPress, Carrie asked me a great question in return. Is there a way to shorten those URLs? Well… the good news is, yes and it does not need a plugin. The bad news is, it means changing some settings and folders which means work and redirects. But there is another good news to the end of it, you’ll probably only have to do it once… provided you don’t change your mind again So how do you do it? Option 1 – Change the way WordPress organizes your uploads In Settings >> Miscellaneous, you have the option of organizing your uploads based on the update month and year. This adds two more sub-folders to the URL (see the folders in red) making it http://site.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/filename.ext If you uncheck this box then all uploads will be dumped into the uploads folder. Which makes the URLs shorter (see the sample below) but on the other hand your uploads folder is going to be pretty messy after a while. I personally have no problems with this, but I hope in the future WordPress will allow me the option to upload Read More→
Many of us who use WordPress are familiar with the upload function where you can add and attach a media file right from the post screen without FTP. There is a button to add images, video, audio and ‘media’. It is natural for anyone to think that’s all you can upload. As business users, we often have PDFs we want to upload and share too. Here’s the good news in case you didn’t know it. You can upload PDF files from WP as well. Just click the Add Media button. I’ve even uploaded ZIP packages successfully.
Alright, so I am not a social media guru but I’ve had this question asked of me enough. Whenever you’re on Twitter, sometimes you will see people tweet with code like #mm or #gnu or something like that. These are called hashtags and they are a way of tagging a tweet so that people can track a conversation. Parties and events are becoming very popular on Twitter and people usually use these hashtags when replying to or participating in the event. If you’d like to read about all the conversation related to that event, you’d go to http://search.twitter.com enter the hasthtag in the search box and it’ll bring up what everyone is saying. Here’s an example of the chatter about the inauguration. This is great for many things: Good way to find a conversation you can jump in to. There are no rules about it. Anyone can tweet, attach the hashtag and be part of the conversation. A good way to find out what everyone is saying about one topic A fantastic way to find out what other topics people are talking about in real time Great way to find stuff to blog about Fun way to find people to Read More→
That’s good, but don’t forget to scrub your computer of all your information first. Any personal computer would have a lot of private stuff but our business computers will probably have more. Don’t want any of that to get out. It goes without saying you should of course back up your data first before you scrub it. There usually is no way to recover from a scrub. Once you’re ready, you can use this free tool to empty your hard drive before you let it loose. Get Heidi Eraser Photo by Davide Guglielmo
Connect with larger audiences 24/7 Nothing beats talking to your customers in person but face it. You can only entertain one customer at a time. When you’re in a store, and engaged with a customer, others have to wait till you’re done. On your blog, they don’t have to wait around for you just to talk to you or find out what you think or what your advise would be because you’d blog about them and they can comment to discuss the topic with you. And you can all do it on your time. Build company expertise My old boss over at the tax office I worked at before is a very busy man this time of year. But the rest of the year, not so much. Those are great times to fill a blog with information packed tax related posts to be published around this time of the year. People always ask for him because they know he is knowledgeable. While it is true that he doesn’t need to establish himself as an expert, he used to tell me that others don’t seem to see or believe the preparers he trained himself are just as capable. He could allow Read More→
I’m not an auto-save hater. Got it turned on on my word processor. In fact, I insist on it. But having auto-save in WordPress and on the word processor are two different things. My biggest pet peeve, it increases my database size exponentially. Sure, web hosting space is cheap still, just because you have the space doesn’t mean you must fill it. Second reason, I’ve found sometimes the duplicates create weird issues. I can’t remember what happened the last time but the auto-saved version of the post completely messed up something. I want it off and want it off now. Here’s how. Just add the following code into your wp-config.php you can put it right after the list of security keys. define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);
If you ever guest blog for anyone running WordPress or own a multi-author blog it can sometimes get frustrating when you just want to find out the last posts you wrote or see a list of posts written by a certain author. Problem is, there is no sort posts by author in WordPress admin panel. It used to be there but was removed in the great 2.5 update that threw the whole admin panel out of whack. You can also get plugins to do the job for you, but that won’t help if you’re just a guest author at the blog. Here’s a quick trick to help you pull up posts by a single author. When you’re logged in, go to the Manage >> Posts tab. In the list of posts, find the name of the author you want to look up. Click on the name and you’ll get the list of all posts by that author.
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