13 WordPress Blog Design ‘Don’ts’

13 WordPress Blog design don'ts

This is a hectic week for me. I’m headed for the BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Los Angeles, where I’ll be speaking on how to make your blog user-friendly. Doing the final touches on my presentation, and writing a post, “What I Won’t Do at BlogWorld,” got me thinking about things people shouldn’t do [...]

When Widget Love Becomes an Obsession

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All of us who love WordPress, love our widgets. You know—those little bits of code that work tirelessly in our sidebars and other places to offer useful and cool things? We sometimes find them on other sites and think, “Man, I have to get that one”. It’s like accessories for your car, your wardrobe, your [...]

5 Interior Design Tips to Make Your WordPress Blog User-Friendly

5 Interior Design Blogging Tips

Your blog is your house. And your visitors ring the doorbell with one question in mind: “Will I find what I need here?” Your content can be incredible, but it won’t be read unless you have set up the basics to get your users from point A to point B. Your visitors want clean,  simple, [...]

15 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic with Irresistible Tweets

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When a post moves off your blog’s home page, fewer readers will see it. If it’s a piece you were particularly proud of, well, that can hurt. Maybe you wrote it just one month after you started blogging, so only three people read it. And one of them was your mother. Maybe Tuesday’s post was [...]