WordPress Bloggers: Monitor Your Website Statistics Daily!

On February 6, 2012, in Blogging Aspects, Professional Blogging, Tips & Tricks, by Wilfried F. Voss

If you run your WordPress website seriously, whether you’re using it to promote your business or try to contribute to your income by placing ads from affiliate programs like Google AdSense, you should monitor your website’s performance on a daily basis.

WordPress Blog: How To Boost The Ranking Of Your Website With The Right Plugins

On January 10, 2012, in Professional Blogging, Tips & Tricks, WordPress plugins, by Wilfried F. Voss

Not every WordPress blogger is out to reach the maximum exposure in the cyber world. After all, blogging is about expressing your opinion, writing about those things you love or hate, and letting off some steam. However, for those trying to turn a hobby into some kind of money-making machine and contribute a few dollars to a meager household budget by placing advertisement, a good web ranking represents the threshold from failure to success.

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.

Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

On September 4, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Veteran journalists Kovach and Rosenstiel (The Elements of Journalism) begin their intelligent and well-written guidebook by assuring readers this is not unfamiliar territory. The printing press, the telegraph, radio, and television were once just as unsettling and disruptive as today’s Internet, blogs, and Twitter posts.

Google AdSense Damages Website Reputation

On February 15, 2011, in Marketing, WordPress Tips, by Wilfried F. Voss

Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw Maybe you have noticed, but I don’t run Google ads on this website. During the time that I ran the ads I have come to the following conclusions: 1. Despite 30,000+ unique visitors per month I created less than $30 in revenues [...]

In Commercial Searches Google Results Are Polluted

On February 13, 2011, in Blogging, Marketing, Scammers, Technology, by Wilfried F. Voss

If you search ‘cancer,’ that’s an informational search and on those, Google is amazing. But in commercial searches, Google’s results are really polluted. My own personal experience says that the guy with the biggest S.E.O. budget always ranks the highest.

Increase Your Website's Performance Through An Audit Report

On August 17, 2010, in Blogging, Technology, by Wilfried F. Voss

Just lately I tried of the newest offerings in regards to website optimization, the Alexa Site Audit. The Site Audit takes an in depth look at your website, grades it, and recommends ways to make it easier for people to find and use it. The information I found in the report was valuable, and, in the end, it helped to increase the ranking of the website.

Internet Search Engines – Meet 44 Year Old ELIZA

On July 17, 2010, in Neurotica, Technology, by Wilfried F. Voss

Looking at attributes like identification of keywords, discovery of minimal context, choice of appropriate transformations, generations of responses in the absence of keywords… Isn’t that exactly what we are looking for in a search engine?