Do a Google search for click here. What you’ll find is around 1.7 billion (yes billion) instances in Google’s database where website owners have used “click here” as linked text on their website. Let me guess, that includes you, right?
But click here is seldom the best option for linked text. Take a look at these [...]

The last of our new blogs are rolling out this week - and these are two of my favorites!
Celebrity Business - Celebrity Gossip and News for Entrepreneurs, Geeks & Smart People
I’ve never much been into celebrity gossip. I could care less about Mary Kate’s bad dress or J Lo’s latest divorce. But I have always [...]

I used to write a lot earning money from blogging - these days the topic is getting terribly overdone and there’s not much to add to it. But I’ve always loved helping parent bloggers earn money from blogging, and I must admit this post has been sitting in my drafts for almost a year. With [...]

Just a quick weekend note to let you know that several people on Twitter have let me know that they are having a hard time visiting our domain. Every time they try to click through to a page from Google Reader, type in the URL, or even come from another site, they are finding they [...]

Almost exactly a year ago, I hired Sarah Lewis to redesign eMoms at Home. I really needed a custom theme, and didn’t realize all of the benefits that having a custom theme would provide this site until I hired her. Among other obvious marketing/branding benefits, the not-so obvious benefits were the nearly instant increase in [...]

Last week when I spoke at BlogWorld (Barbara’s recap), I presented with Dave Nalle from BlogCritics.org and Matt Colebourne from CoComment. Although the session covered commenting quite heavily, I steered our conversation in the last part of the presentation to talk about the bigger picture: Community.
In fact, probably one of the most frequently asked [...]

Some of you may remember my series on how to Digg-proof your WordPress blog from the early summer. Much of the problem around running WordPress under heavy traffic boils down to two problems - not enough memory on your server, or not using a good cache tool to ease the load on your server.
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