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Technology

Get Your Blog Hosted for Free

March 10, 2010

I always encourage bloggers that want to take themselves seriously to get their own hosting, and manage their own site. The most common pushback I get is the price of hosting. You can get your blog hosted for free. It is pretty easy.

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Cache Your Wordpress Blog to Make it Faster

March 8, 2010
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What’s the most common problem that growing blogs always run into? Their Wordpress site needs to be cached in order to handle the growing influx of traffic.

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Got Speed? The Problem with Slow Loading Blogs

January 5, 2010
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If you are not the tech savvy type, I’d be willing to bet your site loads slower than it should. Most amateur bloggers (and some professional ones) are not very good developers. Here’s where I would normally make the case for hiring a firm like BlogCraving to handle these things for you, but this time I will spare you.

Let’s just jump right to the point and find out if your site is a load hog.

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Chartbeat.com Realtime Stats

July 20, 2009

You may have heard about the cool, new (relatively) service by Betaworks called Chartbeat.com.  It is a real-time web analytics service on steroids.
Chartbeat’s dashboard if fully animated, and updates before your very eyes in real time.  It is all part of the growing trend of tracking the “now-web.”  You simply load your realtime dashboard and [...]

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Solve Your Technical or Content Needs

May 22, 2009

Have you ever run into a situation on your site where you need a quick technical fix but don’t know how to do it?  Do you have a great idea for a new site design or web app?
It can be a pretty daunting task to get that kind of thing done.  Some people are lucky [...]

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Why Wordpress is the Best Blogging Platform

May 22, 2009

When you first start blogging choosing the best platform for your blog is critcal. This and your marketing efforts are the keys to your blogging success.
Many people get online to start blogs, but don’t know what platform to use. This is why you need to know why WordPress is the best blogging platform.
Here are the [...]

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