Yaro Starak, my favorite Internet Guru and the guy behind membership sites such as Become A Blogger, Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind, is soon re-opening the doors for the last time in 2009 to his Membership Site Mastermind program. The last time Membership Site Mastermind took in new students was in May 2009, so … Read more →
I’ve received quite a few questions already from my great techpatio.com readers, asking me how I get that message to appear at the bottom of my posts that (per default) says: “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!”. I changed mine a bit, so that it … Read more →
I often wonder exactly how important it is to have keywords in your domain name, so I would like to hear your thoughts on this. But first, let’s break down what we’re dealing with here, cause mostly you hear about keywords in the URL. An URL usually consists of two things, the domain name and … Read more →
I was going to create a post on how you could get better Search Engine Optimization for your blog using FeedBurner links, especially if you have a habit of commenting on blogs with CommentLuv that pulls your FeedBurner RSS feed to get your latest blog post(s), but FeedBurner made a change that would render my … Read more →
I’m three months into my “blogging life” and my 3rd month has been my best month so far, when looking at visits and pageviews. I’ve also decided to start a new blog, which I call ApplePatio. Yes, you guessed it, it’s about Apple and it’s still within my ‘Patio theme (branding FTW, right?). Read more … Read more →
If you’ve been reading TechPatio for a while then you probably know that I like the “Top 5’s” from HowStuffWorks, the latest one is a top 5 on ways to make money on the Internet. In this post I’d just like to mention the 5 ways HowStuffWorks claims are the “top 5” ways to make … Read more →
Lax from the TechZoomin.com blog is throwing a very interesting competition for people who like to comment on blogs, where you can win your share of $100 each month! I feel that some way or the other you’re also contributing to TechZoomIn. Right? Then you’ve all the rights to draw your share from my monthly … Read more →
Sometimes a featured post can be a good thing, if you have something you’d really want to push and make your readers aware of – like you can see on the following screenshot where I’m “pushing” the first interview I’ve ever done for techpatio.com. That post, as featured, will always appear on top of my … Read more →
iContact, my all-time favourite when it comes to e-mail marketing and autoresponders both professionally and personally, just upgraded their application with some new features. Here’s a quick run-down of the new features just added: Spell Check Now the message editor has the ability to recognize misspelled words, highlight them, and provide suggested options for correcting … Read more →
If you have watched the Matt Cutts video from WordCamp San Francisco 2009 you probably noticed his mentioning of the two following HTML codes: [html] <!–google_ad_section_start–> <!–google_ad_section_end–> [/html] Most people don’t know about those two tags and so they don’t use them. Using them lets you define what part of your website (or blog) should … Read more →
Matt Cutts is often looked at as the “face of Google” among bloggers and search engine optimization people. Matt often posts information, tips, videos etc. with information about Google and other related stuff that can help bloggers and webmasters optimize their site for better ranking and readership. He joined Google as a software engineer in … Read more →
It’s that time of the month again…. No, not that time, what’s the matter with you? The time I’m obviously talking about, is the time where it’s time to look into the month of August 2009 and report back to my readers how the month has been for techpatio.com, related to visits and income. So … Read more →
It’s finally here, Thesis! I’ve been waiting for weeks to make my switch to Thesis but I decided to just wait a few more days and do it today, so that I would have had around 2 months of blogging before I started using Thesis. Now it will probably be easier to spot any changes … Read more →
The day of the catalog is long gone. No longer can companies get away with having a purely physical presence in the marketplace. By that I mean that any company that thinks a catalog, a billboard, or some television advertisements are a sufficient marketing strategy are clearly mistaken.
Are you a blogger? No! Then go become a blogger and return to this post once you get a blog going. Your future readers and blog commentators will love you for it! Yes! Great, are you using WordPress as your blogging platform then? No! Hmm, okay, I hope you’re happy with your current platform. If … Read more →
Article marketing can be a great way to drive traffic to your site. One of the best article directories, EzineArticles, get hundreds of thousands of visitors a day. EzineArticles allows you to submit your articles to their directory, for free! But getting the EzineArticle users to take a look at your article is a completely … Read more →