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Category Archives: Tactics & How-to’s

I heart Headway

It’s become a well-known fact in certain circles that I know enough CSS, PHP and HTML to create mass destruction on my websites. Perhaps you remember the end of last year when I wiped my site out twice in 2 months? Maybe you’ve noticed that all of my how-to and tactic articles are written by [...]

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How to Add a Feedburner Feed to WordPress

This post comes from Tish Berg at tMedia. WordPress already comes with an RSS feed, however there is no way to keep stats on who isreading your feed.  Feedburner is the best way to keep track of your readers. Connecting your RSS feed to feedburner is not as difficult as it sounds. Supplies Needed: Feedburner account. [...]

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Search and Replace in WordPress MySQL Database

This post by Lorelle at Lorelle on WordPress saved me loads of time. I hope you find it useful as well. Note- her warnings are legit. DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU DON’T HAVE TO! There are times when you must enter the WordPress MySQL database to search and replace some content. If you don’t have [...]

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How to set up a new WordPress site on a live site without disturbing the existing one

This tip is brought to you by Carol Logan Newbill at 2fishweb.com. Step 6 is my favorite. 1.  Set up a new directory for the new WordPress site – domain.com/newsite (or something similar) and load the WordPress files into it. 2.  In the main www directory (domain.com), add a file called robots.txt that says this: User-agent: * [...]

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Tactics Tuesday: SEO part 2: Optimizing Your Images

Tactics Tuesday: SEO part 2: Optimizing Your Images

Tactics Tuesday is where we talk about what buttons to push, plugins to download and how, exactly, you do all those things you would do if you knew how. This month we’re continuing the discussion about SEO. Today, I’m focusing on SEO and the pictures on your site. For the record- I found this on [...]

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Tactics Tuesday – the SEO edition

Strategy: How you get from where your are now to where you want to go.  Tactics: the buttons you push and tasks you complete on the way.  This month we’re talking about SEO. SEO is search engine optimization. In other words, how popular you are with google, bing and other search engines. How well your [...]

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How to work with a service provider

I noticed a trend lately of small-business people new to outsourcing having trouble with their service provider relationships. Here are 5 tips to help you smooth out your relationships. You get what you pay for. In the pricing series I talked about the difference between a 19.95 website and a 10k website. Bottom line: you [...]

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Tactics Tuesday – the Resources edition

Tactics: the how-to’s, the answer to “what button do I push?”, tasks listed in numerical order. Strategies: why you pushed the button, when you do task 1-5, the why-to for your how-to. I talk a lot about strategy around here. I don’t talk much about tactics, primarily because I used to do corporate training. Corporate [...]

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