In this post I described the primary desktop tools I use in my internet marketing business. This time I’ll take a look at some of the on-line tools I use. All these tools are free to use, although some have limitations – for example the sitemap generator will create free sitemaps for sites with up [...]
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I was helping a friend the other day and needed to get FTP access to their site. So they fired up the web based FTP tool provided by their hosting provider. And it was one of the least intuitive applications I’ve ever seen! So I showed her how to install Filezilla and it took us [...]
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The 1-click installation service offered by most hosting providers for various applications is wonderful. In particular, it’s opened up self-hosted WordPress blogging to a whole tribe of people who might have baulked at the manual installation. But there are some things to keep in mind. And please don’t take these as criticisms – they’re not, [...]
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I saw one of those VERY IMPORTANT READ THIS NOW posts in a forum the other day. It was all about how WordPress could get us banned from the search engines. I normally don’t go anywhere near posts with titles like that, but considering the mutual love affair between Google and WordPress I was intrigued. [...]
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If you read (and remember) any of my articles from a few years back you can take me to task now. Because back then I raved about plugins and added them to my WordPress sites at will. But I’ve changed my mind. Don’t get me wrong. There are some excellent plugins that do great jobs. [...]
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I recently upgraded to Thesis 1.6 on three of my sites and installed it from new on a fourth. Here are my thoughts. Firstly, just so you know, I’m an affiliate for Thesis. That means I get a bit of beer money if you end up buying it through my affiliate link (the Thesis links [...]
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Another question I saw recently: how do I build incoming links to my site? So why are incoming links important? Because they are the search engines’ way of assessing how good your site is. And if they think your site is good they’ll send you lots of visitors. The logic goes that if lots of [...]
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I see a lot of questions asking how to make a WordPress post sticky. A sticky post is one that stays on the front page of your blog so that, same as sticky posts in forums, it will always be displaid first. What’s the point of that? It depends on the content of your blog, [...]
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