If you’ve been searching the interwebs and keep typing in things like “the best free Wordpress Templates” or something, I hope that you’ll stop the insanity right now and pause for a few moments. I’ve spent plenty of time over the years looking over and over again for just that perfect one size fits all theme.  I’ve tried free, cheap, expensive and believe I’ve narrowed it down to two theme/templates plus one other company that puts out lots of excellent themes and … [Read more...]

How? Premise 2.0 was just released. Get Premise 2.0 while it's hot! I was half-way through writing an article about how to make membership sites that flow and integrate perfectly with Wordpress installs, when this came out today.  It's big news.  And it's a serious solution to a problem that many people run into. Problem meet Solution: If you want to blog, potentially sell stuff online, be an affiliate marketer and maybe even have paid (or unpaid) membership websites, then you used to … [Read more...]

There's a tool out now that I started using to get more links back my blogs.  It's a plugin for Wordpress called Pinback Optimizer. The problem and the solution are closely related:  Having lots of backlinks to your blog helps you rank higher with Google and other search engines.  But evidently only a small percentage of websites are actually indexed by Google. I know, it's weird to think that Google doesn't know everything yet.  But it doesn't.  What you need are links back to your … [Read more...]