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 [...]

By creating custom Wordpress category template (or tag template) pages in your theme, you can boost SEO significantly, better monetize your pages, and ensure good search placement and indexing for all category pages. Without them, you are probably hurting your web site and losing money - and maybe even having duplicate content issues. I’m going [...]

“My blog is a failure” and I think I’ll just go somewhere and put myself out of my misery…having similar thoughts? Maybe I can help.
Last weekend I read post on another blog that really concerned me. The author wrote “I’ve been working at this blogging thing for more than a year and I [...]

This is installment #1 of the series “Managing Wordpress More Effectively“. I will show you how to wring every last drop out of your content so you can get the most out of your web site (and your time) each and every day..
*UPDATED* I’ve added a new section at the end that I originally forgot [...]

I’ll show you how to get better backlinks by posting in forums with an “SEO Optimized signature”! Even if you feel you know this, read my post - you may learn something new!
I do a lot of linkbuilding, most of the things in my “linkbuilding cheat sheet” I do every week. Posting in forums is [...]

Did you know you could get a “google penalty” just for writing about or linking to certain sites? Even if you “nofollow” the links? I had a google penalty for one year, and I didn’t even know why until just now…”
I’ve been very surprised lately at the number of bloggers that don’t check their search [...]

Where and for what keywords does your blog or web site rank in search engine results? I will show you how to monitor this automatically!
This is installment #4 in the Tracking Your Blog’s Progress series! In yesterday’s post Increase Traffic with MSN, Yahoo, and Google I talked about making sure that your blog [...]

Today I’m going to show you how to increase blog traffic across all 3 search engines - MSN, Yahoo!, and Google!
This is installment #4 in the “Tracking Your Blog’s Progress” article series. Too many bloggers wonder why they aren’t getting any traffic without doing something about. If you’re not actively working to increase your [...]

Are you reading your XML Sitemap when it updates and checking your SERP’s (Search Engine Results Pages) to make sure your site is indexing ok? If you aren’t - you could unknowingly be driving your site into the ground and killing your traffic off.
This is the third installment of “Tracking Your Blog’s Progress“, and [...]

How many widgets and chiclets are in your blog sidebar? Is all that sidebar crap giving your blog value, or making you look foolish?
When you’re out dropping entrecards or surfing and reading blogs do you notice all the crap in the sidebars? I know that to some extent you do - because that’s how the [...]