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How to Filter Adsense Ads Displayed on Your Blog or Website I didn’t know until today how to filter Adsense ads displayed on my website. I didn’t even know that I needed to. Just goes to show that ignorance isn’t always bliss. Sometimes it’s just ignorance. Until I checked my website this morning and found a banner ad that was not only completely unrelated to anything [Read More] Read More	Custom Per-Post or Page Private ad Widget My good friend and long time collaborator, Marty D., recently devised a novel way of inserting per-post private-party ads on her blog. She generously agreed to share her technique with you here as a guest post, so enjoy, and thank you, Marty! P.S. Marty has the most awesome DIY blog ever. The other day I [Read More] Read More	Great New Tip to Find Copied Images and Photos Stolen from Your Site Knowing how and where to find stolen images and photos of yours that other sites use without your permission is challenging, but not impossible. There are plenty of comments online suggesting that designers and photographers should be flattered when people plagiarize their images. It drives me crazy every time I read a comment like that. [Read More] Read More
Guest Blogger, Sips of Jen and Tonic Internet, please meet my friend and guest blogger, Jennifer Sharp: I recently met Jen through her blog, “SipsOfJenAndTonic.com.” I was so intrigued and entertained by her wry, yet hilarious article, “A Straight Shot to the Babymaker,” that I didn’t know whether to burst out laughing or call my sister and say, “Oh, now I get [Read More] Read More	Examiner.com Income and Earnings. Seriously? You’re Scaring Me. In reviewing my recent blog analytics, I’ve been dismayed to find that so many of you are still searching for “Examiner.com earnings and income.” Yes, my articles about how to increase Examiner.com earnings, income, page views, etc. are still online, but only to support those who might still be actual “Examiners” and need help with [Read More] Read More	10 Ways to Protect Your Content From Theft Online These 10 tips for protecting your copyrighted content online will save you time and stress down the road. If you’re not monitoring the web for your own text, images, videos, audio, or whatever your content consists of, YOU SHOULD BE. Content thieves, scrapers, and plagiarizers can outrank you for your own, original content in the [Read More] Read More
CSS Drop Caps or Initial Caps: Add Style to your Blog Text *Suffusion theme’s new CSS drop caps styling update at end of post. Drop caps are elegant and a bit old fashioned, in a good way. I’ll show you how to make easy CSS drop caps to add a sophisticated flair to your blog text as shown at the beginning of this paragraph. They can add [Read More] Read More	Do You Have a Boo-hoo Buffer Between Your Business and Internet Review Sites? (You Should!) What’s a “Boo-hoo Buffer”? Well, it’s a nonsense word, but it’s as real as your reputation, and it can literally make or break your business ratings online. Online reputation management is serious stuff these days, with more review sites coming online monthly, and more customers growing Yelp and HealthGrades savvy by the day. Not to [Read More] Read More	Two Key SEO Best Practices That You Cannot Afford to Ignore There are two key SEO best practices that apply to virtually every post, every article, and every blog or website. After your initial SEO research is complete, your site is built, and you have structured your ‘pretty permalinks,’ added title tags and descriptions in all the right places, it’s all wasted if you don’t apply [Read More] Read More
Must-have WordPress Plugin: Featured Posts Grid Gallery of scrapbook layouts created in 5 minutes using the Featured Posts Grid WordPress plugin. (freequickpage.com/gallery) A relatively new plugin, Featured Posts Grid, by developer Chase Pettit, may be just what you’ve been looking for and couldn’t find–until now. I’m excited to share this with you, because I think it’s going to solve a lot [Read More] Read More	How to find the Best WordPress Plugins The best WordPress plugins will rock your blog or website in a fraction of the time that you could have hard-coded the same functions into your site. And the worst WordPress plugins will crash your site and make you cry. In searching for your own plugins, first bear in mind that today’s awesome JavaScript carousel [Read More] Read More	Ever Wonder What Google Sees When You Use a Shortcode? Maybe it’s just me. Okay, I’m pretty sure it is, because this is painfully basic and I totally missed it. But just in case you’ve ever wondered what Google (and other search engines) see on a page with shortcode, I’ll tell you. But let’s back up a second. I recently installed a plugin on another [Read More] Read More