The “New” SiteMeter

by Kevin on September 15, 2008

Over the weekend (September 13-14), SiteMeter, a popular metrics and statistics reporting tool among bloggers, both small and large went offline for updates.  However, those “updates” are now a set of rollbacks to the previous version.  What went wrong and (…)

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WordPress Test Posts for Theme Development

by Kevin on September 14, 2008

Two great collections of sample (lorem ipsum text) posts have been created, which are geared towards helping theme and website designers speed up their workflow between the theme design process and final release to the public or client(s).   Many (…)

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Quality Control on Your Blog

by Kevin on September 14, 2008

With each post that you create, you can either push yourself to put out more posts, or a lower number of posts, but with increasing quality.  While the easy-to-write posts generally drive traffic if you are able to be ahead (…)

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How to Negotiate a Great Ad Deal on a Blog

by Kevin on September 11, 2008

Getting your blog’s address out to other bloggers who may be interested in your blog can be a difficult process, especially if you are on a limited budget.  Correctly approaching other bloggers about advertising on their blogs is one of (…)

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What Happened Then is Now Current

by Kevin on September 9, 2008

Quite a bit of buzz has formed over Google’s new addition to its News archives area, which includes more print articles, in the form of photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements, and the other areas of a newspaper/magazine.  The ultimate goal of (…)

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