How To Make $100+ Per Month Through Your Website

On November 16, 2011, in Blogging, Professional Blogging, Tips & Tricks, by Wilfried F. Voss

Yes, this post will explain how you can make $100+ per month through your website, and to make sure we are on the same page: I am talking $100 and maybe a little more. I don’t promise a $10,000 monthly income with virtually no work, and you sitting at the swimming pool of your home in the Caribbean, sipping your vodka martini – shaken, not stirred.

Ground Rules For A Successful Website

On November 16, 2011, in Blogging, Professional Blogging, Tips & Tricks, by Wilfried F. Voss

When you run a website, you will be faced from the very beginning with search engine optimization (SEO), and SEO is treated at times like a science. However, concentrating on SEO alone will do nothing for your website if you don’t follow the very basics.

WordPress: Neglected Database Management Will Impact Performance

On November 14, 2011, in Professional Blogging, WordPress, WordPress plugins, by Wilfried F. Voss

The problem with the WordPress database management comes with frequent adding, modifying, and deleting new posts and pages. The best comparison is the file fragmentation of a Windows computer. Frequent adding, modifying, and deleting of files will create a database management challenge due to increased fragmenting of the available hard-disk space.

Download your FREE copy of “A No-Nonsense Guide to a Professional Blog”

On August 4, 2011, in Blogging, Marketing, WordPress Tips, Writing & Publishing, by Wilfried F. Voss

As the title of this book implies, the author delivers a concise description on setting up a professional blog – using WordPress – without wasting time convincing the user of the reasoning for creating a blog. The approach is “quick and dirty.”

WordPress Bloggers: Are You Tired Of Manually Posting On Your Blog?

On July 15, 2011, in Professional Blogging, WordPress, by Wilfried F. Voss

Never again will you have to manually write on your blog again! No more research, brainstorming, or hours out of your life wasted… A simple solution that will turn your Wordpress blog into an automatic posting machine! Still, one major equation applies: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t.

Blogging: Sometimes You Do Need That Personal Shrink

On May 11, 2011, in Blogging Aspects, Professional Blogging, by Wilfried F. Voss

In general, it is my blogging policy to NOT block comments, unless they are scam (i.e. useless content not related to the post, but pointing to dubious websites). As of lately I have added another condition to block comments: Insulting comments. And yes, in some cases my posts are designed to provoke – that is in the nature of the business – but I won’t engage into fruitless fights.

Embedding YouTube Videos In Your WordPress Theme

On April 29, 2011, in Professional Blogging, WordPress plugins, by Wilfried F. Voss

In the “old days” embedding YouTube videos was only possible through incorporating Java code – as provided by YouTube – into your post. You had to do it in the HTML editing mode, and you didn’t dare to go back into the “Visual” editing mode. WordPress is at times highly allergic to implemented Java or HTML code and just removes it in Visual mode.

Bloggers: How To Monetize "Free" Website Content

These days, everyone talks about free content. “Give it away!” they say, but does this really work? Well, yes and no. As with anything, there has to be a strategy.

The Power And The Danger Of A Successful Blog

I started this website as a personal blog to write about everything I love and hate, hoping that somebody in the outside world would read it, and afraid that somebody in the outside world would read it. Blogging is a never-ending learning process, especially when success is attached to it.

Bloggers: The Right Way to Approach a Social Networking Site

On October 14, 2010, in Blogging, Marketing, Professional Blogging, Tips & Tricks, WordPress Tips, Writing & Publishing, by Wilfried F. Voss

The idea behind social networks isn’t a new thing, but the concept of socializing online developed and morphed as more and more people spent time in front of their computers. The idea being that you could socialize, network, gather, communicate and meet friends in an online venue, rather than, let’s say a coffee shop.