If you DO plan to develop your domain, then run out and sign-up with Twitter using the domain as the Twitter username. This will strengthen your brand and it costs nothing! It doesn’t even have to be a Twitter-centric application like Foamee.
Have a Twitter account gives you another possible traffic stream and diversifies your offerings. I’ve seen many Twitter users running Blog to Twitter scripts — any new blog posts also gets posted to Twitter with a small url linkback to the original blog post — but this LAME.
No question that Wordpress PHP template tags and functions make it easy to construct great user interfaces. But if you’d like to do some of the traditionally back-end functions like Creating Posts or Deleting Posts from the front end, you’ll quickly hit the wall… Continue Reading »
Well, you can’t really HIDE a website, but you can redirect users to a safe page that’s away from your work-in-progress. The Members Only Wordpress plugin can help. This plugin redirects unregistered users to the log-in page -OR- to any page you choose. Continue Reading »
Give your visitors the chance to contribute on the very first page they see… That’s what I’m doing at UseTemplates.com, a site I created for me to keep track of all the themes and templates I run across while browsing the Net. Directly on the home page, users can now suggest a theme to be included on the site. Continue Reading »
When you register a new domain, it’s important to gauge its traffic for yourself — don’t rely on others’ estimates or statistics. Also, you don’t want it resolving to an auto-parked page with your registrar. Oh, and you want some content there for the accidental visitor and the Google bot to see. Continue Reading »
Optimize! I wrote earlier about McJiffy, the free eBay store script — no database required, awesome! — and now I’m actually seeing traffic from Google. I stood up a site for buying hand bags, shoulder bags and purses. These are the searches I’m seeing from Google: Continue Reading »
The trick to finding a unique theme for your new blog is to NOT look for them. If you run Wordpress, don’t search Google for “Wordpress Themes”, you’ll get the same old themes everyone else is using. Continue Reading »
When you DO find that perfect theme for your new domain, keep track of it in a gallery! Create content whenever possible and use a domain to match. This also has the benefit of keeping YOU more organized. Continue Reading »
McJiffy EASy is an open-source PHP script for running an eBay store using the eBay affiliate program, the eBay Partner Network. The nice thing about McJiffy is that NO database is required. Setup is sweet and easy. Caching is in place to speed up category searches.
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Adjix is a new way to monetize combining URL shorting with advertising. Here’s how it works: people called “linkers” shorten URLs and then give those to other people, publish them, etc… The audience in mind is Twitter users where shorter is better.
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