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Cheaponomics

While it may not be one of the slickest of presentations (like, who cares?!), Keir Whitaker’s “Cheaponomics” is certainly one of the most informative and valuable presentations on new trends, services and tools available in the fast-evolving blogosphere.
Keir works with Carsonified, an exceptional Web application and site development company based in Bath, England, and he [...]

Search Plugin on Steroids

Many thanks to Brian who read my post on some of the best Wordpress plugins and brings my attention to Search-Unleashed from Urban Giraffe. Search-Unleashed enhances the normal Search box on your blog to deliver deep, fast results and highlighted keywords.  Best I have seen. 
You can check it out - it’s already in use on [...]

Best Plugins for Wordpress

Let’s consider this subject an ongoing and expanding list of good plugins for Wordpress that deliver valuable and useful features for bloggers.  Plugins are a big reason for choosing the Wordpress blog platform.  For example, the ShareThis at the end of this post is a plugin.  Subscribe (in the center column under Pages) is a [...]

Making Sense of Online Rankings

For sake of transparency, let me say that I have not found one easy way to make sense of site rankings, especially since blogs came on the scene. When TV correspondent Greg Dobbs and I founded BoomerCafé in the summer of 1999, about all we had was whether the site showed up eventually on [...]

Permalinks Work Magic

I have a confession to make … I had been blogging for several years and was simply not aware of the special importance of permalinks. In fact, when I migrated my blogs over to Wordpress a couple of years ago, a friend pointed out that my blog permalinks were broken and, shhh … let [...]