Topics: Podcasting, Blogs vs Journalism, Blog Monetization, High Performance WordPress, Past, Present, and Future of Web Publishing, Getting Involved with WordPress, more...
The bottom line If you’ve got full-body posts on the main page of your blog, change things up a bit and try implementing teasers like I’ve done here. Your pageviews ought to increase dramatically, and I think this approach will also inspire you to
If you want your archives to be effective (because most archives are decidedly not), then you need to provide specialized archive views that place a premium on scannability. Fortunately, you can accomplish this with almost no effort in one easy step!
Typically, WordPress archive pages (and other CMS archive pages, for that matter) do not contain links to all of your internal Pages and available syndication feeds. A properly-constructed XHTML sitemap solves this problem. Why? Because Google Said So. A
Blogbar is a free search engine widget you can simply include in your own blog or website. With Blogbar, you'll allow your web visitors to - search within your blog/website, - search the web with the major search engines, - search the blogosphere wi
This checklist will cover the basics of what you need to do during those all-important first two weeks of your blog’s life. While there are no guarantees in the blogosphere, if you follow these launching tips closely, your chances of success are greatly
Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, t
If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks. Blogs are great, but they can be a lot of work. And they're really built to handle longer-form text posts.