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Over 2K Pageviews For A 20 Minute Blog Post

Friday, October 24th, 2008

This week I posted a stupid post here about things not to say to someone from Scotland. It was trivial, but I thought some people might like it at digg.com so I submitted it there. Yeah, stupid is as stupid does. 5 diggs was the hit rate and virtually no traffic.
Yesterday morning I thought I [...]

Joomla 1.5 Homepage Title – Joomla SEO

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I’ve seen a lot of Joomla 1.5 sites recently where the homepage title is simply “Home”. Obviously this isn’t an ideal situation and you generally want your homepage title to include your best search term for the site. It’s very easy to fix though:

From your Joomla Admin Dashboard go to Menus > Main Menu
Click on [...]

Joomla Content Editor JCE and Google Chrome Not Working

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Not best bedfellows it turns out. I’ve been banging my head against a Joomla site all morning, trying to get formatting to stick that I’d applied on pages and it just kept getting wiped out. I use JCE as the editor on the site in question and forgot I was using the Google Chrome browser. [...]

7 Blogs You Shouldn’t Start

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

In some markets there are way more than enough blogs on specific subjects. If you are thinking of starting another one, think again. If it’s in the list below, the market is either saturated, or it’s just a plain bad idea. Just because you could write it doesn’t mean you should. Or have really you [...]

Is Traffic Better From Stumbleupon Or Digg?

Monday, October 6th, 2008

For a Stumbler or Digger who doesn’t have a very big profile yet, submitting to both these social networks can be a good way to gain a bit of extra traffic, but which is better?
Digg can bring masses of traffic for anyone who can get their post to go popular, but without having spent a [...]

Want me to Digg it? Submit it yourself first!

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Chicklets, bookmarklets, share this, Digg this buttons are everywhere. Inviting you to click and bookmark or share with the world. Sounds great. An easy way to build a list of articles you like and share them with everyone.
If you’re a blog owner, stick these buttons on your blog or site and it makes it look [...]