I am always looking around for cool new business ideas and these are the five best website businesses that most people have not yet heard about:
Near my house is Cougar Mountain Wildland Park and I had been meaning to get over there and explore a little bit, so yesterday I put on my little backpack with a waterhose and ran over and back. I missed the park entrance (made a wrong turn), but I came upon a different part of the park anyways.… read more “Cougar Mountain Run”
Google has announced that it’s browser, Chrome, is going to be launched as an operating system soon. Microsoft’s core product, it’s Windows operating system, is now under direct attack from Google’s free new offering. I think with the new HTML 5 standard, Flash, Silverlight, Apps, Gears and all the other great new technologies we are going to see a massive tidal wave completely change the face of computing. … read more “Google Chrome: Windows Killer?”
Many bloggers have asked me how to increase comments on your blog. People who blog want to know that people are actually reading what they post and sometimes just seeing traffic numbers doesn’t quite cut it. Human engagement is the best way to understand what your readers are thinking and the comments section is one of the few ways to get it online. … read more “How To Increase Comments on Your Blog”
Guest blogging is an enormously powerful tool for both the guest blogger and for the blog host. I strongly recommend that all bloggers look for opportunities to write guest posts on other people’s blogs and invite other people to write guest posts for their own blogs.
I left my camera with my videos & pictures at my grandparents house, so you will have to wait on those till next week when I pick them up. All the pictures below are from Adam & Steve and a couple are public domain pics of Mount Rainier.
I climbed Mt. Rainier this weekend via the Camp Schurman route. … read more “Climbing Mt. Rainier via Camp Schurman”
Meta descriptions are a forlorn and all too often forgotten part of web design. Originally developed for the first search engines to tell what the webpage was supposed to be about, meta descriptions were heavily abused by spammers and now are a much smaller factor in search engine rankings. However, meta descriptions still do serve an important purpose: they are your advertisement in search results to tell searchers what your page is about and get them to click on your link. … read more “Winning Visitors With Meta Descriptions”
In my journey to the top of the blogging world, I have occasionally found myself stuck on plateaus. If you are in a similar position follow these 5 tips and your blog will be kickstarted up the ladder of success! (Sorry about all the climbing metaphors, I’m going to be attempting Mt. Rainier this weekend lol)
Title tags are frequently overlooked by web designers and other people who are unfamiliar with search engine optimization. A title tag is the text that appears at the top left of the blue bar on your browser and it is easy to ignore. If you do a search on Google using the query “site:yoursite.com”, you will quickly see how important title tags are. … read more “Writing Better Title Tags”