31 Days - Beginning Summary
I plan to provide everyone with a summary of my blog during the course of my adventure. I’d like to take a few minutes here to provide a baseline set of statistics so that we know what we are going off of and establish a trend.
The blog is a couple weeks old now and [...]
How to Add A Custom Favicon
I’m going to kick off my 31 Days to a Better Blog series with something that is fairly simple to do and can benefit my blog (or yours) greatly.
First off for those that aren’t familiar with it and are asking “What is a favicon?”, let me go ahead and clear that up for you. Favicon.ico [...]
How to Get Free Stuff
In doing my usual bouncing around the blogosphere, I’ve noticed that there are a lot of contests floating around.
Today I’m going to be writing about one hosted by Katy Castro over at I’m Blogging That. She’s been lucky enough to get her hands on a few copies of The ProBlogger Book by Darren Rowse and [...]
Green Alternatives for Pest Control
With the warm months rapidly approaching, pests are going to become a common issue for many of us. The area that I live in is predisposed to ants, mosquitoes, and cockroaches (they love the trees for some reason). During the spring and summer it seems like I am fighting a constant battle trying to keep [...]
Performance Optimization - Services, Startup and Appearance
There are dozens and often times over 100 services running on your system all the time. These services run in the background, performing many of the operations being requested. Many services start up automatically when your PC boots up and some services start when a requested program is opened. The problem here is that some [...]
Performance Optimization - Files and the File System
In my last article on Performance Optimization, I discussed the The Registry. This time I’m going to focus on Files and the File System. The concept is similar with files as it is with the Registry. Your system performance can suffer from fragmentation, temporary files and from the Page file.
Fragmentation occurs every time you create [...]
I Follow, Not Nofollow
As you may have noticed by the button on the bottom of my posts and also in the Right Hand sidebar, I no longer have nofollow enabled.
What does this mean you ask? There is a bit of code that most blogs have enabled that was put into place to help combat comment spam. This piece [...]
10 Blog Traffic Tips
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, [...]
How to Sell the Wienie
Mark Ramsey has written a great article about adding the finishing touches to a product, article, song that make that customer or consumer keep coming back.
Learn about the “Wienie” here.
Recent Migration to WP
After a few days of slaving over the keyboard I’ve finally got the migration completed. It was a long hard road, but I’ve got all the posts migrated and the permalinks in a format so that none of the older links will provide a broken link. To make life a bit harder there is nothing [...]
