Tag Archive: blogs

Why A-List Bloggers Should Bite Me Hard

One thing I can’t stand about the effort to drive more traffic to a site is the almost mandatory need to play suck ass to some high traffic megablog in the hopes that maybe, someday, somehow, they might acknowledge your puny existence for one microsecond and throw a fraction of their gazillion readers and visitors…

Six Things About Me (That You Could Give a Flying Leap About)

Simple Mindz couldn’t resist tagging me with yet another one of those damned memes, but she’s hot, so I forgive her. Alllllrighty then, here are the rules: Link to the person that tagged you. Post the rules on your blog. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself. Tag six random people and the end of your…

A Blogging Contest: Providing Backlinks for Logo Designs and Other Niches

I hate to get sucked into entering yet another blogging contest, especially when they are usually transparent efforts to build backlinks to their sites, but this one was too good to pass up. David Airey is a graphic designer who, oddly enough, specializes in logo and graphic design, and is currently running a contest giving…

How Akismet Hosed My WordPress Blog

For some time now I used to have this perplexing problem where I simply couldn’t access the administrative section of my blog without it timing out on me. I couldn’t figure out what was causing the latency issues, and I also noticed that if I tried to access it from a different browser or different…

Plugins Gone Wild!

Evidently, letting on that I had more than 75+ WordPress plugins installed raised quite a few eyebrows around the blogosphere. At last count I now have 89 plugins humming in the background, and it might go even higher, if for no other reason than just to see if I can break the 100 mark. I…

The Ultimate Blogger’s Toolbox – More than 80 links to tools and resources to help improve your blogging experience

Inspired by Mashable’s latest streak of publishing insane link lists for their readers (covering images, audio, video, analytics and podcasting), I decided to publish my own personal toolbox for bloggers in general. Enjoy! Analytics This Add This! – Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your blog and subscribe to your feeds. Saves you…

Making Sense of Adsense and Blogging

For the first time since I started blogging many moons ago, I finally put up Google’s Adsense on my site. This I do, 4 years after its release, with the Internet now completely saturated with these types of ads everywhere you surf, during the worst advertising slump since 2000. I’m brilliant. Oh well. I’m obviously…

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