If you need an easy way to accept credit card and bank account payments for content site subscriptions, newsletter fees, club dues, or recurring donations, PayPal offers an easy way to do it. I recently started selling private advertising spots on my blogs and needed a way to automate the monthly hassle of recurring payments. […]

The WordPress blogging platform is simply the best available product out there today but it’s not perfect. I can rant and rave about how cool and customizable WordPress is but you already know that. What I’d like to talk about is the WYSIWYG toolbar and how it’s great for professionals, it’s in need of an […]

I’m building a new website for a client who’s requirements were to highlight the current page you’re on. The system is using WordPress so I needed to build something that was php-based. After much thought and lots of Googling, I came up with the following solution:
Here’s the code I used in header.php for the sidebar. […]

For those of you who use WordPress as your blogging platform, you know it’s the best blog platform out there hands down. I personally run several blogs, all of which run on WordPress version 2.0 or greater. And the great thing about WordPress is the availability of additional plug-ins that anybody could potentially write to […]

I use WordPress for my blogging platform and I LOVE it. I’ve used them all (Typepad, Blogger, etc) but nothing compares to WordPress. So up until a few days ago, I’ve had zero problems but little did I know I was never getting emails when someone posts a new comment! Turns out this is a […]

Having a Google AdSense site is a great way to make money. And to create an AdSense site, all you have to do is have a Google AdSense account (which is free), a website or a blog (which is free), and some articles (which are free if you write them yourself). Once you get your […]

Blogs have many advantages over normal WebPages when it comes to internet marketing. Blogs are indexed much faster, blogs can “ping” hundreds of blog and news directories, and blogs can be listed in places normal websites are not. Here are some Power Tips to get your blog rolling!

Here is a list of things I’d highly recommend doing to your blog to help increase traffic and tracking.
1) Syndication - Make it easy for people to subscribe to your blog. Sign-up with Feedburner and then create a “syndication” area on your site.
2) Analytics Anyone? - Sure some blogging software has visitor traffic data but […]

As fancy as “blog” sounds, a blog is just a website that uses a content management system. While most blog software is more search engine friendly out of the box than many web sites, the opportunities for blog optimization are readily available.
1) Optimize your templates - You need to understand HTML and template language to […]