Unless you’ve got a huge advertising budget when you start up your website – and let’s face it, you probably wouldn’t be reading this site if you did – you need free methods for boosting traffic to your website. Years ago, one of the tried and true methods for getting free traffic was simply to [...]
Posted in Blogging.
I recently re-themed one of my WordPress websites with the Thesis theme, which is clean code designed to load fast. I thought everything would be great once I actually switched over to the new theme. Of course I expected a few glitches, and I got them: on some monitors, my sidebars were too dark for [...]
Posted in Blogging.
One day, you’re updating your WordPress plugins automatically, all of them at the same time, and thinking how nice it is you don’t have to do them one at a time anymore. Or, if you’re a really old codger like me, you’re remembering what it was like when you had to go download them yourself [...]
Posted in Tools & Tips.
Blue Mushrooms is now Blog A Living. This change has been a long time coming, and I’m very excited about it. Blue Mushrooms began as a journal I kept while I was learning how to manage, run and promote websites. It contained a lot of rants, a lot of questions, and lots of useless tidbits. [...]
Posted in Blogging.
The most effective overall form of marketing is word of mouth. You can’t buy it. You can’t really control it. Sometimes, irritatingly, some minor aspect of something you’re building gets all the buzz while the whole point of your project gets missed. But this is your best indication of what your market is looking for. [...]
Posted in Marketing.
I run various ad networks on my various sites. Every now and then, I evaluate how well they’re performing, and whether I might do better with another network in a particular spot. Recently, I dumped an ad network I’ve been with for years. I’m not going to name them, but I am going to detail [...]
Posted in Monetizing.
