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. [...]
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…
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.
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 [...]
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.
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:
