Amongst other things… You may have noticed a text link for Affordable Web Design, eCommerce and SEO appear in my left sidebar recently. This is a sponsored link from On-Top.co.uk who have very kindly paid for links on both Blog-Op and Thermal. I invite and encourage you to have a click on the link, and [...]

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My recent post on spreading the link love for your commenters was aimed solely at WordPress users as it was a plugin. However, those of you using Blogger can now follow us, and offer link love to your commenters by carrying out the simple instructions at BetaBloggerForDummies: Remove NoFollow attribute on comments. It’s a very [...]

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A subject dear to my heart at the moment, given the use of my blogs by scrapers. Unless you sit in a darkened room, and the only blog you ever visit is your own, you are almost certainly going to come across some material written by others, that really inspires you, or you know your [...]

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Akismet is a fantastic plugin that anyone who uses WordPress will have, and you should ensure is active at all times.* But it’s not quite ‘Fire & Forget’, you must check the spam queue regularly, and remove everything that isn’t spam – even if you don’t want it to appear on your blog. Simply de-spam [...]

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This is one I’m guilty of not always following – anchor your text correctly. When you insert a link into a post, it is very important from a search engine point of view, that the text you use is relevant to the link. Google appears to be refining their search results almost daily, with a [...]

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I’m interested to know your thoughts on blog directories: When I first started with Thermal, I dutifully signed up with every (free) blog directory going, and had a sidebar about a mile long with all the chicklets in it. Upon changing theme, I removed all of those I never got a single hit from, and [...]

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Because if you earn money from your blog, you are. This post will be most relevant to UK tax law as that’s where I’m based, but no matter where you are in the world, you may need to look into this, and ask the same question. As payment for my various money making schemes is [...]

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Just a quickie really: Everything I hear, and experience myself, seems to tell me that no webhost is actually half as good as they’d like us to believe: 99.9% uptimes, superfast servers etc. all seem to be exaggerations at best. So: For those of you on paid hosting, I’d like to know who you’re with, [...]

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What’s Alexa? It’s an internet statistics monitoring company, owned by Amazon.com. They provide a toolbar (which was once commonly considered spyware, less so now) which when installed, reports  traffic data back to Alexa. Which means? Alexa issue all websites a traffic rating based on this information – you can see mine at the bottom of [...]

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I know a few of my regular blogs have these, so I’ll cast my vote straightaway: I’m unlikely to drop any cash in myself as I’m more likely to contribute by clicking ads etc, but I have no objection to them at all – I’m happy for bloggers to make some money any way they [...]

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