The ethical nature of paid reviews is a debatable one.  There are some bloggers that embrace paid reviews as a strategy to monetize their blogs.  There are some that steer clear of paid reviews citing that it would diminish their reputation and damage readers’ trust.  If you asked me a year ago, I would tell [...]

In How To Fight WordPress Comment and Trackback Spams, I shared several techniques that you could use to reduce the amount of comment and trackback spams that hit your blog.  Spams are not getting through on my blogs, but it’s still a pain to review for false positives among spams caught by Akismet. Fortunately, there’s [...]

Okay, you have launched your blog, and you have been pouring your heart and soul into it.  You are gaining readers, made new friends, and enjoying the overall experience.  Since nobody can blog forever, have you ever thought about what you’ll do down the road?  I haven’t thought about this until a friend (DebtKid) asked [...]

I occasionally come across new bloggers who are eager to generate traffic to their blog.  They become focused on blog promotion and SEO before their blog is ready. I applaud their efforts, but I think it’s a mistake to promote your blog to prematurely.

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Ever since my host upgraded my admin control panel to Plesk 8.3.0, I have been running into problem backing up large MySQL databases using PhpMyAdmin. For whatever reason, the export function will only generate 0 byte SQL backup file. Moreover, it’s becoming quite a chore to backup 9 databases spread across 7 domains [...]

If you have been blogging for a while, chances are you’ve been getting some traffic from search engines. For example, based on Google Analytics my personal finance blog received 12,707 total visits via 8,513 keywords in the past 30 days — of which, the top 50 keywords produced 4,876 visits (or 38%).

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Over the past few days, I have been toying around with the idea of setting up WordPress as the CMS for a web site directory. One thing I wanted to do with my personal finance directory is to show a thumbnail image of the featured site when I am on the main page, category [...]