Starting a blog and Blogging

11th Commandment: Thou shalt not write a blog post that hast not been optimized for SEO. I hear so many different things about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that sometimes I want to pull my hair out. Don’t do this, do that, don’t do that, do this instead. Half of what they talk about is perpetuated

Confessions of a comma abuser I am a proud, serial, comma abuser. Really, I am. If you didn’t notice then that’s because you’re worse than I am. Or you don’t know any better. Either way. I don’t always know when I’m breaking the comma rules, but often I do. For example, I use the comma

While I was responding to a post on a forum about generating traffic I thought to myself, “Hey, this will make a great blog entry and maybe even an article” 🙂 My way to generate natural, organic traffic When I first got started I was overwhelmed with the “do this” and “do that” for generating

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part 13 of How To Set Up A WordPress Blog And Forum. Today we will finish installing one of the more popular forum software called PHPBB. I know some of the screens are

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part 12 of How To Set Up A WordPress Blog And Forum. Today we will be installing one of the more popular forum software called PHPBB. If you have HostGator for your host, then

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part 11 (and the beginning of section two) of How To Set Up A WordPress Blog And Forum. I changed my mind and decided to reverse the order of the forum install. You

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part ten (and the end of section one) of How To Set Up A Blog And Forum. Today we will set up Posts, Pages, and a couple of last Defaults for our WordPress

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part nine of How To Set Up A Blog And Forum Today we will set up widgets for WordPress. Widgets are customized spots on your blog which are mostly things that the visitor

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part eight of How To Set Up A Blog And Forum This is a continuation of part seven as part seven would have been huge. You can read part seven here: How To

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part seven of How To Set Up A Blog And Forum Today we will be configuring plugins for WordPress. I think it’s best if we do some in this post and some in