I’ve been blogging for a long time. Longer than most people on the planet have, as a matter of fact. I first began writing things down on the internet back in 2005 when Laura and I bought our first house together. Those were fun days and I was doing tons of improvements, many of which […]
Blogging & Writing Tutorials
The Blogging & Writing section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials, and best practices for various areas of creating and operating a blog on the internet today. Discussion includes fundamental and moderately advanced topics in the worlds of goal setting, strategy, technology and more. Additional topics include how to effectively generate content and implement a blog live on the web as well as how to advance and market your website through SEO and social media. Regarding the writing aspect of this area, I discuss how to properly construct sentences, paragraphs, and compositions that are college level and above. You may find further discussion on writing short stories, novellas, and longer pieces, such as novels. We also explore the English language in more depth than you're likely to find elsewhere.
How to Revive an Old Blog
This is something I see far too often: I have a blog that’s been alive since around 2005. It’s got about 2,500 posts in it and it’s been dying a slow death for years. I don’t know what’s wrong. In the beginning, the blog was ranking very well for all sorts of keywords. I was […]
Why Forums Are Better Than Blogs
I used to be a huge blogger. Since 2004 I’ve been blogging all over the place and I loved it. I would enjoy writing and getting my point across to an audience of people I never knew and would never know. I suppose I like the idea of a monologue. Well, I guess I knew […]
3 Critical Areas You Need To Understand Before Launching Any Blog
Before you actually install any blogging software on a server, it’s important to consider a few key areas that relate to your blog’s presence on the web. While some of the following topics may seem rudimentary, giving them due respect may save a lot of headache in the future. In this post, I’m going to […]
How to Build a Popular Forum
The question of how to cultivate activity and build a popular forum is as old as the internet itself. And many of the internet’s most popular forums actually are that old. If you cruise around the web and stop off at random successful forums, you’ll notice that many of them are over a decade in […]
How To Power the Engine Behind Your Blog
Behind any successful blog is a host of effective technology. This technology is not only the engine behind what allows to blog to function, but it also allows visitors to read and comment, owners to share and discuss socially and search engines to crawl and return in search results. Without much of what goes on […]
Why Discussion Forums are Really Great for Website Promotion
The trick with promoting a website is to get your message to users who matter. There’s no sense in spamming your grandmother with links for a website about hot rod cars. I’m sure you’ve faced this sort of situation on social media. A friend is into something new, such as selling hair shampoo, and everything […]
3 Reasons You Need to Start Blogging for Your Business
I’ve been in the web design and SEO business for a long time. So long, in fact, I know what fads look like and I know what trends look like. I also know how to differentiate the two. Back when MySpace was around, all I could do is roll my eyes. I swear, I saw […]