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Can you code an entire website in notepad that is XHTML compliant, but can’t decide what color to make your header and text and hyperlinks and…? Do you browse the color scheme category of www.coolhomepages.com and sample color combos for your designs?
Well if you do, don’t fret because the web has come along way and […]

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How do you turn a blog into an effective e-tailing tool?
Stick To A Common Theme
If you have over 200 pages about the same topic you will increase your SE ranking and the search engines will see you on an authority on your topic. I have many blogs and have an interest in many different topics, […]

You want more traffic. Great. Who doesn’t?
You’ll surely never get more traffic to your site if you see the words Untitled Page in your title bar. I know this is basic knowledge, but you wouldn’t believe how many people ask me why they get no visitors to their site, and then I check their URL […]

People seem to have a hard time finding this plugin so I decided to offer it from my site. Here you go: No Ping Wait 2.
This plugin will help with the long delay time that people experience when they using WordPress. As you know, if you have 10 or more ping services in your Options […]

Blog updating frequency should be a major consideration for any blogger. If you’re one of the many webmasters wondering how often you should add new content, ask yourself some of the following questions:
Do you want to maintain your blog traffic or do you want to consistently build the traffic? Do you have an established blog […]

I’m asked all the time what tools I use to run this blog. From social bookmarking to running blog ads to optimizing rss feeds, it can all be a bit overwhelming sometimes. The following is a list of tools that will help you build and maintain a successful blog. I will add to this list […]

…I also use it to add Google Adsense and other code snippets above my top post on this blog.
CG-InBetween by David Chait is a must have plugin for you bloggers that want to sprinkle adds between your blogs. All you have to do is install this plugin and add one line of code to your […]

I recommend that everyone using WordPress update your Permalinks to a date and name based format. Login to your WordPress Admin and click on the Options tab > Permalinks tab.
You’ll see the following text on the WordPress Permalinks Admin page:
By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them, […]