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Welcome to my "Blog Setup Mistakes"!
You can make a lot of mistakes when setting up a new blog! As a matter of fact, blog setup really goes on the entire time you are a blogger! It's a constant thing, moderating comments, hacking your theme, updating Wordpress, upgrading, intalling, and removing Wordpress plugins...sometimes it seems like you're doing more blog setup than writing actual content. That shouldn't be the case, but your blog and it's infrastructure are the "foundation" of your blog "house" and if it's not rock solid - none of the content matters!
For a successful BANS site the importance of your store pages can’t be overlooked. Setting them up for ease of use and maximum monetization isn’t just to make more money, believe it or not it’s to build more traffic too!
This is installment #8 in the Watch me build a BANS niche site from Scratch series!
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June 13th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, monetization | 3 Comments
Join the forum discussion on this post - (3) PostsAdding a Forum to Wordpress increases SEO by adding indexed pages and improves community by giving your visitors the ability to “participate” far beyond what normal comments allow. It also gives you a place to write random bits of content without writing lots of short, [...]
May 27th, 2008 | Posted in blog content, blog setup, wordpress | 10 Comments
If you’re not getting any BANS traffic from Google - there is still hope of making money. Just make sure you’re BANS site is registered in all the right places!
When I first started this series “Watch Me Build a BANS Niche Site from Scratch” I had envisioned working on my BANS site nearly every day. [...]
May 19th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, wordpress | 10 Comments
Today we’ll learn How to add Tag Support by hacking your Wordpress theme!
This is day #15 of 30 Wordpress Hacks in 30 Days.
If you’re using Wordpress 2.3x or 2.5 or higher you have the ability to use “tags”. If you use social media at all, you should already know what a tag is. Basically it’s [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, wordpress | 9 Comments
Godaddy - the largest web host in the world, treats hosting like a fast food drive through…
This is installment #3 of JTPratt’s Guide to Web Hosting
I got sucked into GoDaddy the same way that people were sucked into “supersizing” at McDonalds’s when it first started. GoDaddy had slick ads during Superbowl halftime that millions of [...]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, web hosting | 2 Comments
Can you get a quality web host for $3.99 per month? How can they afford to give you all that space and bandwidth so cheaply?
This is installment #2 of JTPratt’s Guide to Web Hosting
I’ve had many web hosts over the years for a paltry few dollars per month. Like most people, a great majority of [...]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, web hosting | 3 Comments
If your blogs and web hosts are growing beyond your web host - you are not alone. This guide will teach you everything you need to know about choosing and moving to a good web host.
This is installment #1 of JTPratt’s Guide to Webhosting. Follow the link for all installments.
Have you ever heard the phrase [...]
May 9th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, web hosting | 4 Comments
My list of 20 things Wordpress doesn’t do by default is a great checklist of items you should consider adding to your blog or Wordpress site to make it more effective and easier to use!
I write so many different articles, posts, and series that I often forget when and how I might have written [...]
May 7th, 2008 | Posted in blog SEO, blog content, blog promotion, blog setup, blogging, blogging mistakes, monetization, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wordpress seo | 2 Comments
To have a unique Wordpress blog home page you don’t have to create your own theme. I’ll show you 12 ways to hack your homepage without getting a new theme that will make your blog stand out from the pack!
This is installment #14 of 30 Wordpress Hacks in 30 Days, be sure to sign up [...]
May 6th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, wordpress | 4 Comments
Wordpress errors a problem? Too high of a load for your web host? Worried about getting dugg, stumbled, or slashdotted? Learn now to “traffic proof” your Wordpress site or blog!
This is installment #13 in 30 Wordpress Hacks in 30 Days!
If you’ve blogging for any length of time, or if you own multiple blogs at one [...]
May 2nd, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, wordpress, wordpress plugins | 1 Comment