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Practical Search Engine Optimization For Your Blog/Website You’ve set up your blog, now what? How will anyone find you? How will you attract the targeted traffic you need for your business? Search engines are one of the most powerful sources…
SMBCEO.com just published a guest post I did for them – “5 Ways To Use Twitter Strategically For Your Business” which gives you a few ideas on how to get the most out of Twitter from a business perspective. By…
Google Recipe View If you’ve Google-d for a recipe lately you may have noticed a new feature Google has launched, which is a recipe-specific search – they call it Recipe View. It allows the user to search results specifically designated…
Getting Started With WordPress For Business (and Serious Bloggers!) UPDATE: This workshop is now SOLD OUT. Sign up to be notified of future workshops and for discount pricing. The next WordPress workshop has been scheduled! If you would like to…
WordPress 3.1 was just released. Here are the highlights according to the WordPress site, along with some commentary by your truly 😉 Highlights Internal Linking – click a button for an internal link and it allows you to search for a…
Although WordPress allows for some image editing capabilities, it’s not ideal to upload large images into your WordPress admin and use that for re-sizing or cropping images. You’ll end up storing a lot of extra images on your server and…
Offering blog updates via email is a must-have feature for most blogs, since many real, non-geek people are not familiar with RSS, but are very comfortable with email. I mentioned this possibility in my post on updating readers when you…
Getting Started With WordPress For Business (and Serious Bloggers!) THIS CLASS IS FULL. JOIN THE EMAIL LIST TO BE NOTIFIED FIRST ABOUT UPCOMING CLASSES, AND RECEIVE DISCOUNT CODES Have an idea for a business or blog and need to get…
This post is a taste of what’s to come in my forthcoming Google Analytics Ebook. Sign up to be notified of its launch and for a special promotional price. Internal Link Tracking Using Google Analytics On your blog or website…
Want to remove Tomcat from cPanel? Log-into your server as root using ssh: Execute the following command to stop the Tomcat process: # /usr/sbin/stoptomcat Read moreKali Linux 2021.4 Release | Kali Linux Blog…and to remove the next files, enter: # rm -f /usr/sbin/starttomcat # rm -f /usr/sbin/startomcat # rm -f /usr/sbin/stoptomcat Finally, remove all mod_jk…
Small Business CEO have published my guest post – “Kickstart Your Online Community With Your Offline Customers”. The post was written with small businesses in mind that already have a customer base and offline touchpoints such as a physical business…
LinkedIn have joined Facebook and Twitter in releasing an “official” share button. Note that this doesn’t really represent groundbreaking functionality – many social bookmarking plugins allow you to share posts to LinkedIn. But this official version does come with the…
Here’s a couple of simple truths about blogging: There is no ‘secret’ to the success of your blog. There’s barely anything new at all to be said or read on the topic of blogging. Once you’ve got a solid grasp…
Issues with suhosin or mod_security , then best check your Apache error logs tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
Avoid the 6 month blog fizzle-out, or the non-starter by being prepared for what’s to come in your new incarnation as: A Blogger. I wrote a guest post for She Takes On The World with some pointers on the topic.…
If you’re blogging you want readers to be able to keep up with what you’re writing, right? Here’s an overview of some of your options for enabling readers to subscribe, along with pros and cons of both. Via RSS feed…
How would you like to be personally walked through the WordPress installation process, guided through the set-up of your site, and receive expert advice on promoting your site with SEO and social media? Well, if you are in the LA-area,…
According to research done by Eventbrite, sharing on Facebook is five times more valuable than sharing on Twitter. Eventbrite mined all this data over the past several months, analyzing how sharing an event through social media translated into ticket sales.…
Big news from Facebook-land. Soon Page Admins will be able to contact those that have ‘liked’ them via an interface on the site. This function has been available somewhat behind the scenes, but it took a little tech-savvy to figure…
I’m very excited to announce this in-person workshop taking place October 30th, 11am – 5pm at the Coloft in Santa Monica. I’m teaming up with Gary Nicholson of Relevant Trafik (a search marketing, web design, and social media management firm)…