06.10.07 Posted in How To, Noteworthy, Wordpress by jdmacor
A common problem for bloggers is that you do all kinds of work to get readers to just look at your post, only to have them leave right after that. In fact, you could call it the “Stumble” effect. Just like the Stumbleupon plugin, a reader glances over your post, passes on judgment and then [...]
06.08.07 Posted in News, Personal by jdmacor
I want to give you, my faithful readers, an opportunity to win a prize. The company I am currently working for is looking for some market research and we need people to fill out a short 20 question survey. The questions are related to your web surfing habits and many of them are related to [...]
06.06.07 Posted in How To, Noteworthy by jdmacor
I have had my own fare share of problems trying to increase my traffic. And my Alexa rank was one area that was an especially glaring problem. When I first found out that Alexa even existed, my rank was in the 300,000’s. Now my rank is near 170,000. It is still nothing to brag about, [...]
06.01.07 Posted in How To, Sidenotes by jdmacor
Another day, another contest. That’s right folks! But instead of winning some variety of an iPod, you can win some equipment that may make you a world famous… podcaster. Yes, everything does seem to revolve around the iPod (mine has a screen that just flickers at me; stupid thing). Nevertheless, this is a fantastic opportunity [...]
How To Reduce Your Comment Spam
06.04.07 Posted in How To, Wordpress by jdmacor
A man can only take so many comments demanding that he enlarge his penis; who are these people and where are they getting this information from?! False information, that is… At any rate, nothing spoils my day more than comment spam. As a blogger, the most exciting part of the whole thing is seeing that [...]