Entries Categorized as 'WordPress'

Start Blogging and Get Found With 21 SEO Tips

Date July 20, 2008

Many of my coaching clients come to me with questions about SEO for their blog questions about pay-per-click. If you have no idea what either of those terms mean you are a potential client.
These tools can be useful, but they can also be a great way waste time. I recently read a wonderful [...]

Mac Text to Speech for Better Writing

Date March 27, 2008

I am a decent writer, and I know my limitations. I find my best work comes when I proofread my writing and then I have someone else read my copy to me. It becomes painfully clear as I want to correct the reader and insert words I know belong and remove words that aren’t needed. [...]

Triggit A New Way To Monetize Your Blog

Date March 26, 2008

I discovered this tool at a networking mixer at Sandbox Suites last night. I’ve never really considered advertising on my blog until I read about this tool. Triggit created a very simple way to make money by advertising to visitors on your site.
Nothing new right?
Well it turns out you can provide link to [...]

Simple RSS Feed for Your Wordpress Blog

Date March 20, 2008

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feeds allow your readers to feed your blog posts to a reader like Google Reader. With a simple plugin you can enable RSS feeds on your Wordpress blog with Feedburner FeedSmith.
Feedburner.com explains this process:
For the best results using FeedBurner with your self-hosted WordPress site, we recommend the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin [...]

How to Measure Traffic on A Wordpress Blog

Date March 20, 2008

A lot of my coaching clients ask me how to find out if people are reading their blogs, and if so what posts are gaining interest. I set most of my soloprenuers clients up on Wordpress, which is a wonderful blogging tool. I really like Wordpress and in fact all of my sites run [...]

Beautiful Wordpress Designs

Date February 27, 2008

I help my clients to build simple elegant blogs without fluff or useless features.  People always ask  if I am designer or a “Web Guy”.  I feel that most of us can build a web presence and we don’t need to be a designer to look good.  I’ve found some wonderful designs to make WordPress [...]

Parallels, Windows and Printing

Date January 11, 2008

I needed to print an invoice from my Parallels Windows XP virtual machine running on my Macbook Pro. I found a blog Post that said I should print through Bonjour.
Sounds easy right?
After installing bonjour I could see the printer, but it would disappear 5 seconds after It was detected, and give me an error [...]

The WordPress Automatic Update Plugin is Beautiful!

Date December 6, 2007

I installed the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin,  created by Keith Dsouza of Techie Buzz, and I am elated. It took me just a few minutes to install and Kablammee!!. It backed-up up my database and did all the footwork in a few steps.
I want to give a shout out to Keith for [...]