The Cents of Your Blog

The other night, Joanne and I were watching 60 minutes and during their story on the worth of pennies, I could hear exactly how their story pertained to blogging.
You see, the US Mint produces 8 billion dollars a year in just pennies. And although the penny is just worth 1 cent when spent, it costs [...]

Better Alexa Rank In 5 Days

In the Race to Rank series I reported last week that my Alexa rank was at 168,322.
My goal is to reach 100,000 by April 2008. At the rate I have watched my Alexa rank decrease (remember, lower is better), I figured that this type of goal was not only obtainable but I could easily do [...]

Race For Rank: Series Post

All right, I’ll be the first one to admit that I don’t necessarily agree with PageRank. Generally, it’s a large mystery and the only thing we know for sure that will work to increase PageRank are the “tried and true” messages sent from other bloggers and webmasters.

Ultimate Plugins For WordPress

No doubt that WordPress is the bread and butter of blogging platforms. But really, bread and butter is just toast without the plug-ins. Here’s some jelly.

Understanding Follow Tags

“I don’t really get it what is the meaning of ‘nofollow’ or ‘dofollow’… Hope you could help me out. Thanks in advance.” For this type of question I can go in two directions. Give you a good breakdown on what a bot sees when it crawls your site or just answer the question.

PageRank Update

There has been some amount of speculation today as to whether or not Google was performing a PageRank update. I chose not to say anything and instead, just watch and wait.
Because I was just hoping around my blog, doing a little research for another blog post I realized it was time to say something about [...]

IzeaRanks Is Finally Here!

Since Google took away PageRank from bloggers, and then made us beg to get our PageRank back, millions of bloggers have been asking and begging for a different system to rank our blogs.
Izea, the company behind PayPerPost, Zookoda, Blogger’s Choice Awards, and many more today launched its newest spin-off…IzeaRanks!
Going head to head with Google and [...]

Reason to Blog

All right, I admit it, I’m fascinated with blogging. Suddenly, anyone that chooses to use their voice has a place to stand up and be seen by simply creating a blog and talking. Each day, new blogs spring up out of no where and it won’t be long before you discover that new blog.
But with [...]