Category Archives: Blogs

Upgrading to WordPress 2.7

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Derrick

I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7. I tried it out on a couple of my niche blogs first, and it was pretty straight forward. A couple of plugins had to be upgraded as well, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs | Tagged admin panel, Blog, functionality, Upgrade, Upgrading, WordPress | 44 Comments

WordPress2.6 Released

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Derrick

I’ve just updated this blog to WordPress 2.6, and I’ll be going through all my niche blogs as well. WordPress 2.6 introduces much better plug-in management. You can now delete unused plugins from within the WordPress admin panel, and you … Continue reading →

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Blog Marketing: Establishing Expertise

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Derrick

If you are attempting to build an audience as an expert in your niche it is important that your blog posts show off your expertise. Some people attempt to paint themselves as an expert by telling everyone what an expert … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Online Business | Tagged Aaron Abber, Blog, credibility, experiences, true experts, ways to make money, ways to make money online | 22 Comments

The Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Derrick

Ed Rivis recently mentioned that he’s taken his book, the Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy, off the market. He’ll be releasing a new paperback version shortly, and he’s promised his blog subscribers a free copy of the PDF version. Get over … Continue reading →

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My Top 9 Plugins

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Derrick

I thought I’d do a list of the plug-ins I’m currently using on my blog. This list used to be much longer, but I’ve weeded out the ones which didn’t do anything sensible. Akismet If only I got one non-spam … Continue reading →

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The BlogCatalog Mass Buzz Experiment

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Derrick

Blog communities have sprung up all over the Internet, it seems. If you look at my sidebar, you’ll see I have three widgets installed: BumpZee, MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. Mona Weathers over at iwebis is hosting a “Mass Buzz Experiment” to … Continue reading →

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Removing the “NoFollow” tag

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Derrick

I was going to do a long post explaining why you should remove the “NoFollow” tag from your blog, but other people have already done the job much better than I could. I like Fred W. Black’s explanation the best, … Continue reading →

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Blog Overhauled For The Second Time In A Month Shock!

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Derrick

I blogged a few weeks ago about changing the theme of my blog to something simpler. Since then, I stumbled across Chris Pearson’s Cutline theme, and that’s what I’m now using. Cutline has a couple of nifty features, and it … Continue reading →

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New look

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Derrick

I installed Internet Explorer 7 on my PC and, just in passing, had a look at this blog. It looked dreadful. It probably has done for some time – It looked dreadful. I generally only use IE when a site … Continue reading →

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No-www or yes-www?

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Derrick

I like bookmarks.I have tons of them. I use a web-based service called FoxMarks to keep my laptop and my desktop bookmarks synchronised. However… Quite often I find that it’s quicker to type in a domain name rather than hunting … Continue reading →

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