Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Stop Worrying About SEO

January 31st, 2008 / 10 Comments / blogging

Getting high search engine rankings is nice but what happens when people finally start showing up to your site?  If you spent all your time making sure you were in the top three results on the Google and none of your time writing content, you’re screwed.
I’ve written about SEO in the past and I am […]

I suck at blogging (and my solution)

January 2nd, 2008 / 11 Comments / blogging

I suck at writing posts for this blog on a regular basis. Part of the problem is I don’t feel like the design is setup to do what I want. Part of that is my fault, part of that is WordPress’ fault. And part of that is I have been so busy […]

Blog Architecture: The reason I’m ignoring your blog

April 17th, 2007 / 35 Comments / blogging

I browse through 100 blogs a day. I subscribe to 51. That means that when I read your blog I forget about it. It’s your fault. You haven’t proved to me that you’re providing valuable content on a regular basis.Making the front page of Digg is great for your page […]

SEO with WordPress for beginners

March 24th, 2007 / 29 Comments / blogging

I’ve been designing and building WordPress blogs for a few years now and I’ve noticed that I always seem to get a relatively high PageRank without much effort. I also notice that I get a decent amount of Google traffic, even when I’m not writing, for terms I never intended to rank well for. […]

Designing with WordPress, Part 2: 3 simple tricks

March 3rd, 2007 / 13 Comments / blogging

Do you ever get sick of seeing the same thing over and over on WordPress blogs? They all seem to display 10 posts with a date, a few tags, and a comment count. There is a sidebar on the side with category lists and an archives list. It gets old fast, especially […]

Designing with WordPress, Part 1: Building a framework

February 11th, 2007 / 14 Comments / blogging

The majority of my client work revolves around designing templates that need to be ported to WordPress. Anytime you’re doing a lot of work with one application, one programming language, or, in my case, one blog platform it makes sense to “streamline” your work environment.
So what do I do to increase my productivity? […]