What doesn’t get measured, doesn’t improve. Monitoring and analyzing the traffic coming into your blog is one of the most effective ways to measure success and make improvements to your blog. Many web hosts offer some sort of analytics to track your traffic, but most of these solutions fall short. Google Analytics The most popular tool out there for measuring [...]
Something is Missing You’ve created your blog, found a theme, and thrown up your first few posts, but something is missing. WordPress isn’t quite everything you hoped it would be. You look around at other people’s blogs and see fancy contact forms, social bookmark icons, captcha forms for comments, and more. These people must be hardcore web applications programmers to [...]
Redesign your blog. Right now. Don’t go another day with WordPress’s default template destroying the look (and credibility) of your website. No matter how knowledgeable you are on your subject matter, no one will take you seriously if your website/blog looks cheap and thrown-together. The good news is that a blog “redesign” really isn’t that difficult. In fact, you don’t [...]
There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ~Wayne Dyer You don’t have what it takes. Your ideas are worthless. There is no way to make money doing that. You are doomed to failure. If you haven’t heard these things from family and friends, [...]
Nothing shouts “I’m a newbie blogger” more than a website that still reads “Just Another WordPress Weblog” in big letters just below the title. When I see that tagline at the top of a website, it’s very hard to take that blog seriously. If somebody thinks you don’t know what you’re doing, then chances are slim that they’re going to [...]
A blog can be one of the most valuable tools in your arsenal for getting your website noticed and pulling in what Charlie Sheen might call “epic” amounts of traffic. But if it’s not done right, then setting up and running a new blog will just be a monumental waste of time. The good news is that building your new [...]
Reality television is so five minutes ago! Plug in, and enjoy the sensation of reality blogging—raw and unscripted. Think of this blog as an enormous tutorial on how to build your own blog from scratch. Just like on reality TV, you’re going to watch all the ups and downs as I build and grow Live Action Blog. I want to [...]
Live Action Blog, Take 2 Let’s start over, shall we? An indeterminate amount of time ago (I’m too lazy to do the math), I created Live Action Blog as a beacon to wanna-be bloggers all over the world. The idea was for all the world to watch–slacked jawed and full of awestruck wonder–as I built a ridiculously successful blog from [...]
