In February, Google announced that it would start favoring mobile-friendly sites starting on April 21st. Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. Contrary to some bloggers’ interpretation of Google’s latest algorithm change, your site will NOT be de-listed if it is not mobile friendly. (Oh yes, all […]
Blogging with Wordpress
Blogging with Wordpress is the simplest way for a beginner to start a blog, aka website. Rosalind Gardner has been using Wordpress since before it's inception and knows all the ins and outs of how to create a blog and use the best themes and SEO tactics to attract visitors to your new blog. Learn how to start a Wordpress blog here.
Spring Cleaning for Your Blog
The birds are singing, the posies are popping and spring rains are making everything look shiny and new. Here are 10 tips to dust off your blog and give it a fresh spring feel. Update Your About Page Have you gained experience or earned new credentials since you set up your blog? Has the objective […]
Online Donations: Make the Process Simple for Donors
Our next-door neighbour, a very good friend of ours, recently passed away and in lieu of flowers the family asked that online donations be made to a local charity that does fund-raising for colon cancer awareness. Being that Lester is my third friend / colleague to succumb to the disease, I was SO on it. […]
How often should I post to my blog?
For the first few years after I started writing about Internet and affiliate marketing in 2001, I posted one article and sent out its corresponding newsletter to my email subscribers pretty much faithfully, every Tuesday. Writing and publishing one article per week was all the time and energy I could devote to this blog, in […]
How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog
Did you know that each time you save a draft post to your WordPress blog, the mySQL database stores a record of that post? Your WordPress database also contains records of each update you make to published posts, and all those spam comments you thought you were deleting when you clicked the ‘Empty Spam’ button? […]
14 Reasons to Fire Your Webmaster
Does your website REALLY represent your small business and help you succeed by engaging your existing clientele and attracting new customers? Here are 14 problems that I see all too frequently on small business websites. If yours suffers from any or all of them, it may be time to fire your webmaster. You don’t own […]
12 WordPress Security Tips
A reader asked for tips on how to secure his WordPress blog against hackers. After thinking about and listing all the things I do to keep my blogs secure, I did some online research to see where my actions fell short. Turned out that my blogs were well-protected, but I did adopt some additional security measures […]
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