The Best Free iPhone Applications for Social Media Marketing
More and more consultants and professionals in the internet and social media marketing realm are using their smartphones (especially the Apple iPhone) to stay connected and maintain their online presence. There are several social media marketing applications available for the iPhone for free that can allow a social media marketing Read more…
5 Great Security Plugins Every WordPress Blog Should Be Using
Online security is always a topic of hot debate. Not a day goes by where someone isn’t hacked, whether they own a small site or a hugely popular one. The problem is that the more popular your site becomes, the more of a target it can be to those with Read more…
6 Tools to Monetize Your WordPress Blog
While many writers blog because they are passionate about their subject matter, no one can deny that getting compensated for your efforts is a huge plus! But monetizing a blog can be time-consuming and tricky. For instance, promoting an irrelevant or scammy product can wear out reader trust. Thankfully there Read more…
PressHarbor: WordPress for the Rest of Us
A long, long time ago, in a place not so far away a company emerged from the shadows offering WP fans an alternative to Automattic’s WordPress.com. Launched in 2007 by the folks behind RackShare, PressHarbor provides a safe haven for WP fans looking for a WordPress centric hosting company without Read more…
The 3 Blog Laws of Self Hosting (Ignore Them At Your Own Risk)
Despite the benefits of blogging upon Blogger, WordPress.com, OnSugar (for Drupal lovers), or a microblogging site like Tumblr, there comes a season in your life when you must embrace the trials and tribulations of self hosting your blog. Fortunately in the age of social networking and blogs, most hosting companies Read more…
WordPress Plugins to Reduce Load-time
As our blogs grow and get more traffic, more “fun” things tend to get added on. We add a sidebar image here, a tracking script there, Adsense on top and below, etc. All these things eventually start becoming too much, and slows down your blog- especially when we start forgetting to delete old and outdated plugins as time goes on.
I don’t have to tell you this, but a slow loading blog makes for a poor user experience – and you do not want to lose those visitors you worked so hard for. Keep in mind that visitors subjected to poor site performance rarely complain – they just leave and don’t come back. Nobody is going to take the trouble to find your contact form and say, “hey buddy- your site is loading slow. I will be back here in 1 week to check to see if it’s fixed.” Read more…
WordPress 3.0 – Have You Upgraded Yet?
The first stable release of WordPress 3.0 launched on June 17th. Have you upgraded yet? The new version of WordPress offers some cool new features like a new default theme (Twenty Ten), which has been getting a lot of buzz. Also, the new multi-user functionality makes it easy for anyone Read more…
Is It Too Easy to Blog?
There’s an interesting anti- blogging op-ed rant in the Baltimore Sun by Garrison Keillor, an amusing American writing icon who’s known for classics such as Lake Wobegon Days and A Prairie Home Companion. In the rant, entitled “When everyone’s a writer, no one is,” Keillor gives an entertaining slap in Read more…
Performancing Blogosphere Roundup – May 26, 2010
If you’re a blogger on the go, you might know that WordPress is available for a number of mobile devices including iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry. SplashPress Media’s Darnell Clayton discusses the Blackberry edition at Blog Herald. I’ll be covering the iPhone and iPad versions in the future. (The simple summary Read more…
6 Tips to Make the Most of Your Blog Writing Time
Blogging can be an enjoyable experience or it can be a draining time-suck. Which would you prefer? Whether you’re blogging for your own reasons, freelancing, or doing it for your business, finding the time to write can be difficult if you’re juggling it amongst other work. Here are a few Read more…
