ThirstyAffiliates Review – Managing affiliate links may not be easy in your blog, especially if you are recommending tons of products on a weekly basis (or even daily – hopefully they are genuine recommendations). You either have to log in to an individual affiliate program to grab your link over and over, or you can …
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Having a high CPU usage on your WordPress blog and wondering what plug-ins are stalling or slowing your WordPress blog down? Aren’t you frustrated at times when you can’t find what’s causing the problems? A WordPress plug-in called P3, or “Plugin Performance Profiler” can help you by scanning all of your active plugins and identifying …
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How to enable hreview microformat – Notice something different on the Google search result screenshot above? Yup, that’s the hreview microformat, a microformat recognised by Google for publishing reviews of books, movies, gadgets, and basically anything “review-able”. It’s a standardised format which includes the product being reviewed, the reviewer name, rating of the reviewed product, …
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Today, Graham Langdon announced that Entrecard has been acquired by a company called Ziprunner Inc (whoever they are). Entrecard is a great community for bloggers and it has been well estalished for years. When I first joined Entrecard, I was just a small fish in the big pond (I’m a-bit-bigger-small-fish now but haven’t turned onto …
Having broken links can decrease the credibility of a blog. Of course, there is no way to validate every outgoing links that you have especially if you have hundreds or thousands of posts. Server goes down, domain name being taken over, and online businesses are closed and chance is that you wouldn’t know when this …
WordPress 2.8 RC1 was released yesterday over the weekend. If you have the urge to always have the latest and greatest of everything in this world, go grab it! If not, you can always wait for this Wednesday, 10th June for the official WordPress 2.8 release. Since it’s so easy to upgrade (you can use …
I was trying to upgrade this blog to WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 earlier. Everything went well until the step of upgrading the database was completed: the famous WordPress’ white screen of death. It happened when I tried to enter the WordPress’ administration area. If you are here because you get a white screen (blank screen) …
Does being persistent help you to be a great blogger? Maybe. One thing I know for sure, being persistent is one of the “must-to-do” thing for a serious blogger. You’ve probably heard everywhere that writing good contents is THE king. Well in order to write good contents, you need to have persistence. Yesterday on the …
Some of you probably spend minutes (or hours) commenting on other blogs either to connect with the blog’s owner, for a link back, or hoping for a free traffic to your blog/site. Here are my tips on how to be a good commentator from my personal experience. PS: There’s also a debate on the web …
“How important do you think are the headlines of your blog articles?” “What’s your biggest tip on writing a successful blog post ever?” “What’s your best tip for writing a successful blog post?” These are some interview questions that were asked to 40 top bloggers around the world by Stephane Grenier in his book, Blog …
To those who are using WordPress as their blogging platform, WordPress 2.7 has finally reached final and available as you are reading this post! I’ve been using WordPress 2.7 since Beta 1 until today and one thing that I can tell you: Upgrade now if you are still using WordPress 2.6 or older! You will …
As there are barriers in life, there are also barriers in blogging. I’ve actually got this post idea from my church’s sermon last Sunday, about “How to finish well by starting well“. We were taught on how to focus on the goal and eliminate the barriers in our life. As far as practicality, this goes …
