WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

One of the biggest gripes I (as well as many others) have with Youtube is their piss poor quality of the videos. Problem is - not using Youtube is only hurting one person, Me. There is absolutely no denying the fact that Youtube is one of the most trafficked sites on the internet and not using its power to get at least a trickle of fresh visitors to my blog is an obvious loss.

So how does one overcome the poor quality of the video or perhaps even use it to the advantage and get some traffic to a blog? With video marketing being one of the goals for me this year I think I found an answer to the question and that is exactly what I’m going to share

Read the rest of this entry »

In this post I want to share a video tutorial on how to create a nice clean Archives page for WordPress that combines great functionality with very stylish Web 2.0 look. Archives are a major part of your blog and as it grows - many time it becomes hard to manage, even to the point when author himself can’t locate his own posts .

Well fear not! TheSpot-Er is on the scene and managed to whip out a video tutorial for you that covers every step of the process…

Read the rest of this entry »

In my communications with friends, customers and fellow bloggers I have discovered that one of the most daunting tasks they dread is Upgrading Plugins On their WordPress blog. And I can’t really blame them because one small mistake can make your blog completely inoperable and take it off the net for a few hours …

That Is If You Don’t Watch My Video Tutorial!

I have created a complete video tutorial where I show step-by-step how I personally do this task and I show it on my live blog, the one you are reading right now…

Read the rest of this entry »

Spending several years in technical support I tend to fall for “technical support” jokes. Granted some of them are bad and some misrepresent the truth to make fun but way too often most ridiculous joke hits it so close to the truth - it’s not even funny. Perhaps one of the most known jokes when lady calls tech support with request to help her turn on computer when lights are out …. yep! I have actually had this type of call.

Lately a new breed of the jokes emerged - video. And I simply want to share one that I thought was done very well and give you a few laughs. Go ahead - watch the video ….

It’s not a big secret that properly optimized for Search Engines blog and individual blog posts will lead to generating gobs of free traffic via achieving a better positioning in Search Engine Results. There are so many products and guides on the topic of SEO that the term itself has become overused and what is even more upsetting misrepresented.

Search Engine Optimization for Google is really not that hard but when people try to game the system and then share their results, so called “black hat” seo they create more confusion then needs to be. As search engines, including Google move more and more toward semantic search results - “white hat seo” will always take precedence and win. In this post I want to share 2 video from a Google’s own Matt Cutt’s on proper SEO optimization from WordPress camp in San Francisco earlier this year.
Read the rest of this entry »

Staying up till 1 AM is not one of my favorite things to do but I simply couldn’t walk away from watching Free Video Seminar I got hold of that was literally teaching me to build Internet Empire Selling “Potato Gun”. And I’m about to present you with opportunity to see it for yourself …

Of all the things in life “Potato Gun” was the last thing I would think of when building my business but was I ever wrong! Perhaps the best thing about the video is that it followed same step-by-step format I always implement in my own guides and followed same methodology I subscribe to – Overdeliver on expectations!

Read the rest of this entry »

Got to love the Open Source! As of 9 hours ago WordPress has released a new version 2.2.3, which contains a few bug fixes and at least one security fix. So the next step for every WordPress blogger is to struggle with upgrade and hope nothing breaks!

Well, fear not! I have just performed in place upgrade of 3 blogs and didn’t encounter any issues and I wanted to share with you the details via [tag-tec]Video Tutorial[/tag-tec]. To make it even easier I provide you with changed files for WordPress 2.2.3 that you will need to follow this tutorial. So dive in and get your blog upgraded!

Read the rest of this entry »