404 Errors for Non-Existent Mystyle.css
Have you seen a large number of 404 errors in your logs because your WordPress theme is referencing a mystyle.css file that doesn’t exist? It’s an easy fix! … Read entire article »
Slow Holiday Web Traffic on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
No one likes the crowds and traffic in the malls and on the streets during the holidays, but if you’re a website owner, you may be wishing for a little more holiday traffic. So how much has your web traffic dropped on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? … Read entire article »
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How to Blog: Blogging For Businesses
It wasn’t long ago that blogging was considered to be primarily a diary-like personal endeavor focused on whatever topics the writer fancied. But blogging isn’t just for amateurs anymore. It is, in fact, big business, with many of the big players emerging as virtual celebrities. Businesses are becoming more aware of the benefits of blogging as a means to connect with their customers, promote their products, and provide valuable SEO content. We’ll share with you … Read entire article »
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Most Popular Blogging Topics: The Wafflesatnoon.com Top 10
Below is a list of the Top 10 most popular articles on Wafflesatnoon.com over the past 6 months – from October 2011 through April 2012. Reviewing this list can provide us some insight to the most sought-after blogging topics, at least from our perspective. Keep in mind that the top article received 10 times the views that the #10 article received. Let’s first take a look at the list itself, with annotations. … Read entire article »
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Blogging Stats: Useful Tools or Distraction?
One of the fun aspects of building a blog is checking your stats to see how popular you are, how many hits you’ve made, and how much money is coming in. All of that is great until you find yourself distracted with checking the stats far too often or being driven solely by their results. … Read entire article »
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Want to Blog? Learn to Write.
I was perusing a forum related to blogging the other night and the one thing that struck me over and over was that the people in this forum had severe grammatical issues. Sure, forums are conversational and not meant to be dissected. And all bloggers exercise some creative license with journalistic styles (such as my starting this sentence with “and”). That said, it’s still alarming to read a forum full of self-proclaimed bloggers and see … Read entire article »
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Should A Blog Enable or Disable Comments?
It’s a debate as old as blogging itself – should you enable or disable comments? To most bloggers enabling comments is a no-brainer. Isn’t one of the main reasons for blogging to prompt discussion? For many bloggers, comments do enrich their content and provide an added dimension. For others, however, comments become a chore without actually adding much value to the site. Determining which of these categories in which your blog falls will help you … Read entire article »
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How to Blog: Getting Started
You want to know how to blog and don’t know where to start? Here are some quick tips and steps to help you get started blogging quickly. Just do it. The one piece of advice many of the “how to blog” articles don’t tell you is to avoid the pitfall of over-planning. That’s right – don’t spend so much time planning that you never get it done. Throw caution to the wind and just do it. You … Read entire article »
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