Traffic is a lifeblood of any website or blog and we all do what we can to get as many of visitors as we can. Today I want to expand on idea of optimizing your online business by re-evaluating it and talk about…

How To Get More Traffic To Your Blog By Getting Rid Of Bloat!

Page load speed is extremely important for your blog not only because it allows your blog to be indexed faster by search engines but also because it helps you retain visitors.

People arrive to your blog pages from multiple sources and often searching for the solutions to their problems. Needless to say that if your page takes its sweet time to load – you might loose the person whose attention span is about as long as a toddler.

Present Your Content as fast as possible – reduce bounce rate and turn visitors into readers! And here are few tips that should help you….

With 2009 coming to a close I wanted to share information I think is extremely important and call it:

Marketing Fitness Plan

Has a nice ring to it, huh? I like it! But what is even more important then my like or dislike of the title is an actual information.

As we strive to succeed and do more and more business online we become entangled into buy/sell relationships whether we like it or not. Sometimes it is based on immediate need, other time it could be an idea that struck a chord with you and lastly – because a sales copy was just too damn good!

You know its true! I get caught up in buying frenzy too!

In this post I want to share my own personal plan to “trim the marketing excess” and move into 2010 lean and mean marketing machine!

Today I’m continuing with answers to the questions presented to me by my customers and readers. And question we will work with today is equally important to the blogs of every size because it deals with most important aspect that determines blog success – Targeted Traffic!

In the image above you can actually see the less common variant of problem from a blogger who already gets decent amount of visitors and simply need to expand and continue with the growth. Overcoming traffic plateau is EXTREMELY important as each and everyone of us will have to deal with it, at one point or another…

Long overdue but better late then never I begin a mini-series where I will answer questions that my readers submitted via Survey I did last month. I apologize for delay and promise to make it worth for you.

Question 1:  “How do I change the wp-config to writable so I can give myself ALTER rights”

This is actually quite common problem if your host has one of the “unfriendly” setups and it will also apply to people who have issues editing the Theme Files directly from WordPress Admin interface.

In this post I want to discuss 5 EXACT steps I consider to be an absolute MUST to be completed for each and every new blog to ensure it is properly spidered by search engines and gets good exposure from them as well as traffic!

What this post is NOT – it is not a guide to SEO, content publishing, arguments about ping list, etc. We all have our opinions and this topic can get quite large. So instead I share EXACT steps that work well for me in my business and you can choose to duplicate them or ignore!

Either way it will be fun, so keep on reading!

WordPress 2.7 introduced new way comments displayed on your blog and also a new function to display it wp_list_comments. But what do you do if you need more control of How comments displayed and What is included into each comment?

I had to solve this problem in order to get WP Twitip ID plugin working on my blog again! Here are detailed steps on how you too can take control over comments.php loop in WordPress 2.7…