WordPress Guides, Tips And Strategies To Make Money Blogging

There have been a lot of talk lately about Google AdSense stopped been the true contender for income and while in many ways it’s true (I don’t use simply because affiliate links pay me more) it is still a valuable source of income for great many people. People who have no clue about other form of Internet Marketing or income and quite frankly – probably not even interested to get into all the complexity associated with it.

And just yesterday I read a story featured on USA Today “Gray Googlers strike gold” that I think is a great inspiration for people who are looking to not get rich but perhaps simply supplement their existing income in exchange for couple, three hours of daily work. But it goes beyond that …

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Blog comments SPAM is perhaps one of the biggest annoyances for many bloggers. Not only do they not bring any value to the blog itself but also WASTE my time! And I will do whatever it takes to Fight the comments Spam while still sharing the link love with my commenter’s!

This Blog Is Mine! …Spammers Be Gone!

Truth to be told we all would better concentrate on creating our content, delivering information our readers expect from us instead of spending time on picking through through the comments and deleting spam. Lucky us there are great plugins that can help automate the process and while they are not perfect and have minuses, combining them creates an awesome effect of nearly 0 spam! This post will look in details of the proper implementation of these plugins…

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Happy Halloween! That is unless you leave in Hampton Roads …

I have just finished reading an article on regulations for tonight’s festivities in my local area and was very surprised to find out that in my city (Virginia Beach) it is a Class 4 Misdemeanor to trick-or treat if you are older then 12! Not that I was prepping to pull out my costume and make a dash for free candies but isn’t it a bit excessive?

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WordPress 2.3.1 is released and unfortunately this time (again, I should mention) they didn’t provide a path to incremental upgrade of existing WordPress 2.3 blogs. While I understand their unwillingness to do so to avoid support nightmare it really has no reason.

I have created a package with ONLY the changed files between WordPress 2.3 and WordPress 2.3.1 and have fully tested successful implementation on 2 of my live blogs.

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My son loves video games and constantly asks me to go to nearest “Best Buy” where he can play with different video game consoles, check out latest offerings, see what is available. Being a former avid gamer I understand him too well and as you can imagine we drive to the store quite often.

Now is the good time to ask the question: What video games and blogs have in common? Actually quite a lot but perhaps not on the level one might think and on first look it might escape you but when analyzed closely this similarity means more future readers and more opportunities.

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Almost a month since initial release we have finally received a long expected bug fix update. But looks like WordPress 2.3.1 addressing more then just a few bugs but also a security issue. While that security problem only impacts people whose host still have register_globals enabled (shouldn’t be too many) it is still worth updating.

There is much already written on the topic and but one of the best ways to learn is to hit one of the sources. Peter provides all the details on what is been addressed in this release and reading through his blog it appears that at least some of the enhancements slated for 2.4 release made it in here as well.

Blogs by its nature are INFORMAL online information medium and way too often don’t pay appropriate level of attention to credibility and trustworthiness and yet – we should! Being a webmaster I always used to put establishing trustworthiness at the top of my list of key tasks to be completed on launch. What happened you might ask?

While I have followed some of the basics even with my blog – the core fact that blog is less formal always managed to interfere and perhaps even made me ignore what I know has to be done. This post is designed to be as much of a guideline to myself as a form of benchmark you can use to determine just how trustworthy your blog is.

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