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November 17, 2016January 12, 2018 General

Write Better – Tools Every Writer Needs

Whether you are a student, a blogger, or required to send professional emails, you will benefit from learning how to write better. In short, we can all benefit from learning how to write better. This is not about becoming the next Stephen King, but about communicating better. The good news is that there are a lot of tools out on the Internet that can make you a better writer. These utilities range from simple grammar improving tools like Grammarly to creative writing assistance like Daily Page and points in between. Let’s look at a few that you can start using today. Learning to Write Better We are going to discuss several tools to help you write better. Before getting to the apps,... Read more

November 16, 2016 General

Google WebMaster Tools – Search Console

Google provides several excellent tools to help you measure, monitor, and advertise your site. One fundamental tool is called Search Console. Getting started with Search Console is easy to do and helps get your site registered with Google so they are more likely to include your site in search results. Today we will look at registering your site and some ways you can customize how Google sees and displays your site. Register with Search Console The first step is to register your site with Search Console. You can get started by clicking this link and then selecting the Search Console option. You will be taken to the dashboard and you can add a site via the “add property” button. Then... Read more

November 4, 2016 General

Free Editors to Help With Web Development

Whether you are a full-time developer or a coding hobbyist, there will come a time where you need a professional editing tool. These are often called an IDE or integrated development environment as these tools do far more than help you edit code. However, there is good news. There are some highly functional free tools. There are several great commercial tools as well, but let’s look at the free editors you should try before spending a dime. The focus for these editors is web development tasks including HTML, CSS, XML, and PHP. If you are looking for an IDE for another language, take a look at these anyway. They have plugins and expansions available to help with most popular languages in... Read more

October 28, 2016November 2, 2016 Tech Notes

Useful WordPress SEO Plugins

WordPress SEO Plugins Sooner or later you’re going to have to deal with SEO when it comes to optimizing and promoting your site. SEO is a complex set of rules that determines the ranking of your site in search engine results. To improve your website ranking, you need to make sure your site complies with the long laundry list of rules. Maintaining your sites SEO can be difficult because these rules are ever changing. So unless you want to make managing your SEO a full-time job, you may want to consider some SEO plugins. Thankfully there are a handful of free and paid SEO plugins in WordPress that help reduce the overhead of being SEO compliant. With the support of these... Read more

October 19, 2016November 2, 2016 Tech Notes

Free Sites to Promote Your Blog

We did some research in building our sites and have found these resources for freely listing your blog. Some have a paid option to promote your blog faster or better. However, these are a great way to get your blog started and announced. Keep an eye out for opportunities for mutual links and other ways to help your site SEO ranking. There are a lot of directory sites that come and go each year so check back here periodically for new or discontinued sites. You can always do an Internet search for sites as well. One last thing, before you go nuts registering all these sites, it does help to show up in sites over time. We recommend you register with... Read more

October 14, 2016November 2, 2016 General

Getting the word out, promoting your blog

A lot of bloggers make the mistake of thinking that if they build a cool site people will just naturally propagate to their site. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The internet is vast and full of information. Thus, the chances of someone coming across your site at random are small. So, if you wish to drive people to your site you are going to need to give your audience directions. Thankfully, there are some blog services, social tools, and email campaign sites that can help make the process of promoting your blogs easier. Options For Promoting your Blog Using Blog Services Social Media Scheduling Tools Sending Email Campaign Blog Services These are communities of blog sites already available. I... Read more