about 1 week ago - 4 comments
I know, it sounds like a tall order, doesn’t it? But you can do it with a little forethought, some planning and an eye on the SEO ball. Here is a checklist I use for my posts. Understand though, sometimes I get two out of three, sometimes only 1. A really good post will have all three, so that’s your goal.
Post Preparation Checklist
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Gather Your Intel.
In this step, I gather up the research I am performing, material I want to quote, related sites, links or resources I want to include. I gather all that into once place. I use notepad or Dreamweaver for this, since a post’s resources will grow as I build it. Remember that to benefit a reader, it needs to offer them exactly what they are looking for.
about 2 weeks ago - 3 comments
As anyone who knows me can attest, I am a rabid Firefox fan.
I found one more reason to crow about the virtues of Firefox. It’s an addon for Firefox that allows you to check your site and give you a grade based on selected criteria.
It shows you what your competition is doing right, and what they are doing wrong. You can use Sen SEO as a checklist on your own blog. Go through this process after each new post, and you can stay in Google’s good SEO graces.
This video will discuss what Sen SEO shows you Read the rest of SenSEO: A Checklist For SEO
about 1 month ago - 3 comments
As you navigate the world of Internet Marketing, one thing should be becoming very clear to you. In fact, if this one single fact isn’t in stark relief in your mind, you might be in the wrong business.
Copywriting Is The Million Dollar Skill
Seriously. You need to convey/convince/entice your readers/buyers/customers to take an action. Read an article, buy a product, download a book….whatever.
But before you can even start on that message, you have to convince them to read your content. And we all know that starts with a headline. Read the rest of Write Eye Catching Headlines In 32.4 Seconds
about 2 months ago - 7 comments
I hate to do it. Tempt the fates that is. After weeks of effort, lost time, missed billables, disappointed clients and frustrated days — I think I am free. Virus free that is.
And even as I am writing this post, I feel a tremor in my loins. A quick check of my site in my FTP program shows a cache directory I didn’t update! Run the file permissions recursed into subfolders and update the .htaccess file to protect the directory. Am I ready? Maybe. Read the rest of Defend Your Blog: Scan For Vulnerabilities
about 2 months ago - 6 comments
So, has this happened to you? You install a new upgrade or plugin, and suddenly, various places within your dashboard no longer work? You happily click the Dashboard | Posts | Edit link to be greeted by a stark white and completely empty page.
I know. Me too.
And like you, I started Googling the answer, only to find there were dozens of “solutions” out there, and not one of them helped me. I will, for the sake of consolidating the answers into one convenient place, assemble those other solutions as well, but here is what worked for me. Read the rest of Fix The Wordpress Blank Page Error
about 3 months ago - 1 comment
Some %$@#$>%$@#$#^& found/hacked/stole your FTP account password. Now what? Well, change it of course, but that might not be enough.
(Can you feel my self restraint in not actually swearing?)
Here is a simple method you can use to prevent anyone other than you from uploading or downloading files. Read the rest of Protecting Your Blogs FTP Area
about 3 months ago - 6 comments
(Part of an ongoing series on protecting your most valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal, your Wordpress blog)
Sabre: Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine
Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.
Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers? Read the rest of Defend Against The Bot's
about 3 months ago - 13 comments

(Part of an ongoing series on protecting your most valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal)
In the military, they call it “hardening targets” when they take steps to make it harder for the enemy to attack an asset. Here in the real world, it’s hard to think like that. But not thinking like this could cost you time, money, reputation and frustration.
I know from first hand experience.
When I started this series, it was in response to the attack my personal hosting account suffered. And because it was my hosting account, and not a single blog, but rather every single one of my sites was hit.
Take my advice and harden your assets now. Read the rest of Firewall For Your Wordpress Blog
about 4 months ago - 25 comments
I have been promising a list of my personal *must have* plugins that I install on any new blog. Today, that promise is kept.
These are the plugins I install on every blog I create, regardless of niche or specialty. There are a few that I add to certain types of blogs that will won’t be discussed, but you can get more information on these in my book, the Ultimate Guide To Wordpress Plugins.
They are listed alphabetically, not in the order of installation.
Each of these plugins play nice with all the plugins listed here. No animals were harmed during the making of this list. Read the rest of 18 Wordpress Plugins I Can Not Live Without
about 5 months ago - 11 comments
Knowing what your target audience is reading is another of the steps in the journey to web success with your online small business blog.
There are a lot of tracking tools and plugins out there, but I wanted to introduce you to one I found which really provides some amazing insights into your traffic. You can drill into a month, week or day. You can review everything that’s happened on a single URL.
Your referring websites are listed and the search terms used to find you are displayed. I think you will be impressed with the detail this small footprint *script* yields. Read the rest of SlimStat: Stats Tracking For Your Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog
about 5 days ago
Playing your video about Headspace2 plugin and it stops at 5:43 and goes no further – I would like to here the complete video?
about 2 weeks ago
Wow! Thank you so much for this outstanding video. You have helped me to understand Headspace2.
This has definetly helped my site so much :)
Thanks so much again!
Warm Regards,
Michele
about 1 month ago
Interesting, I had to remove the comment because it broke my theme? What’s up with that?