Archive for May, 2008
« Previous EntriesPinging questions
Friday, May 30th, 2008Today’s question:
I am very new to wordpress, my question is when you edit a post which has already been published does the ping-o-matic, ping - the post again as if it were a new post?
The default in WordPress is to re-ping the post when it is edited. This hasn’t changed to the best of my [...]
Domain name - How important is it?
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Today’s question is:
Can you discuss the importance of a domain name? I’m setting up my first blog as “myname.com”, because I want to build my own online brand–but if I wanted to get more into selling, would it be better to setup different domains with niche-specific names?? I noticed you have a blog with your [...]
Theme clutter, site maps, hmmm?
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Today’s question:
Does or should a Blog have a sitemap? I see too many blogs that are all over the place in their design. I want to be able to follow some kind of “order with a purpose” in designing my blog but not too busy that it drives traffic away. It seems as though there [...]
Tweaking your blog
Monday, May 26th, 2008Today’s question:
Let’s say that I blow up my blog…meaning I take all this time tweaking the theme and plugins and then something goes wrong….How do you fix it if you are not techie? I’ve had problems in the past where I would just get this ‘database error in wpcontent line456???? Now I’m afraid to make [...]
Blogs and email marketing
Sunday, May 25th, 2008Today’s question:
From reading your blog and others, I have learned it is important to build an opt-in e-mail list to keep in contact with readers via an e-mail subscription. Can you talk about how to set up your blog to optimally to collect e-mail addresses? Also, once you have promised the reader periodic e-mails (such [...]
Question on using and optimizing Blogger
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Today’s question is:
I know you are a big wordpress fan but I believe you mentioned using blogger on occasion. On what occasion do you use blogger instead of wordpress? Also, are there any tutorials you can recommend on setting up and optimizing blogger?
I never use Blogger for a primary site. I want to own any [...]
WordPress Stats plugin problem
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Today’s question:
I had “WordPress.com Stats” plugin working on my blog…but when I upgraded WordPress to the latest version, the “Blog Stats” plugin is there. I uninstalled the WordPress.com Stats one, and re-installed it, but still not there. I’ve done other things too, but I don’t want this to be a book…anyhoo, I use Google Analytics, [...]
Low on questions so….
Friday, May 16th, 2008It must be time to do another question and answer session.
Yep, Monday night - May 19 - at 8pm.
Mark your calendars.
Of course ike always you can ask your questions in advance. Go to the page and fill in your question then stop back on Monday night to hear the answers.
WordPress or blogging questions
Look forward [...]
Get a good looking blog
Monday, May 12th, 2008Today’s question:
Hi Mike, In setting up my blog, I have so far taken your steps of selecting a niche, adding appropriate plugins, setting ping list etc. Now, I’m trying to set up the aesthetics of the site. My primary concern at the moment is finding a semi-professional looking header, and finding a theme that allows [...]
XML Sitemap question
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Today’s question:
If XML-Sitemap gets corrupted, can we delete it altogether (thru cpanel or FTP) and recreate a fresh one without creating any problems? Thanks
Now I have to make an assumption here and we all know what that ass/u/me word does. If you are using the plugin for WordPress here is what you can do with [...]
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