Hubpages redesign: you get your own subdomain
HUGE – hubpages will be moving all of it’s authors to their own subdomain, to counter the inpact of Panda: Source You can move all your stuff over to your own subdomain today, manually, or wait till...
View ArticleDo you recommend article marketing for SEO? vs Matt Cuts
First watch this video by Matt Cutts from Google: Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy? Since I’ve been advising people to do article marketing for ages now, I think I should explain....
View ArticleSquidoo SEO – a moving target: my lenses module and featured lenses not...
Two months ago, when lensroll disappeared, I had the following exchange with Megan Casey about Squidoo SEO Policy: Katinka Hesselink Disabling lensroll means a big change in the SEO structure of...
View ArticleScroogle alternatives: how to search Google without personalisation and...
Those who watch the search engine space, or make a living online, have long realized that Google personlizes search results. That is: based on what type of PC you use, where you are when you browse,...
View ArticleWhat to do when your Squidoo lens becomes WIP
WIP – Work In Progress WIP lenses show up on your Squidoo dashboard in red. When a lens is new, just published, it will show up as red till the next lensrank update. In order to keep it in the green...
View ArticleWhat I learned about WordPress hosting this week (Hostgator vs VPS.NET)
Hosting is complicated Hosting is not as simple as you think it is WordPress hosting is definitely not as simple as you think it is Wow – that was eloquent, wasn’t it? The reason I’m writing this post...
View ArticleHow to speed up your WordPress blog on shared hosting
Yesterday’s post was about how I was forced to find myself a new host and ended up with shared hosting (again). Today’s post is perhaps more useful: the tips I was given from various sources on how to...
View ArticleThesis – the best CMS-style WordPress Theme
Lately someone bought Thesis off the affiliate banner on this site. I felt somewhat guilty. After all, it’s been years since I did my Thesis review and I have no idea if Thesis is still the best theme...
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WP Engine WordPress Hosting experiences 2013: my review
When I got into hosting trouble last year, I found help with Anne Corcino at SEO Praxis to carry me over the busy months before Christmas. I told myself that March next year (that was last month) I’d...
View ArticleHow to change your WordPress admin username without going into the database –...
The blogging web was roughly awakened to the security issues around running a (self-hosted) WordPress blog last week as a botnet with 90.000 ip adresses at it’s disposal tried to hack all WordPress...
View ArticleSquidoo vs Hubpages vs Wizzley vs Zujava summer 2013
Panda and Penguin are thoroughly messing with the Web 2.0 online marketing / online making a living business. The result for Squidoo is that has a lot less traffic than this time last year. Hubpages...
View ArticleDuplicate content on WordPress – hey, Google indexed my tag pages!
On Facebook I’ve recently seen people ask about duplicate content on WordPress blogs. People are panicking. It’s logical to panic, unfortunately, because Google has been acting strangely lately....
View ArticleGoogle+ help: circles vs communities
Google+ is the upcoming social network according to industry stats. Google+ shares are directly correlated to high search rankings. This may mean that shares actually help stuff rank (which I doubt) or...
View ArticleSquidoo is dead, Long Live Hubpages
On August 15th, Seth Godin announced that the website I have long been making a living on, Squidoo, is going. The content and it’s authors are moving to Hubpages (and therefore the money making...
View ArticleLinking myths – post Panda and Penguin
Google has been making life harder for those of us who make a living online. With sites closing left and right – because Google stopped giving them traffic – authors are getting a big paranoid about...
View ArticleHow to move a hub?
Someone asked: So question for you all, when you move your hubs, where do you move them to and do you need to ask for the hub to be unpublished? I’m so confused, I have just let my sqhbs sit there…….....
View ArticleHow to use Thesis Multimedia Box in Thesis 2.*
I have been using Thesis to design my sites for years now. I love the flexibility of Thesis 2, and have now compared it to Genesis as well – and Genesis just doesn’t do what I want it to. However,...
View ArticleAll my accounts & all my hubs unpublished! @hubpages
I was going to post this on the forums but it turns out that I’m not allowed anymore. So here is to all former squids – so you know what hubpages is turning into. Over the past few days ALL my hubs on...
View ArticleWhat I learned from being banned by hubpages
I was flabbergasted last night: it turns out my account was banned. I’ve calmed down a bit. I’ve saved my content and stats and am moving forward. Here are a few take-away’s. The main one is obvious:...
View ArticleMourning Squidoo
The day before yesterday I was banned from Hubpages. That day was about shock. Yesterday I archived my stuff and wrote about Hubpages as it exists in our world now. Today I find myself mourning the...
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