Wednesday, July 31, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: July Summary

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "July is over. Seven months of Blog Exercises and you would think I'd be sick of these. Yet, I've got hundreds more. I fear my ability to fit it into one year. I might just have to keep going. The response has been amazing. I've looked at hundreds and h"

[New post] Blog Exercises: Don’t Let Your Content Compete With Itself

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "I fear for what I'm about to say. Colored fonts are evil. I'm not talking about colored fonts in the website design, nor colored fonts in headings within your content. I'm talking about colorizing the words you are reading as you read, just because,"

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: What’s the View Through Your Binoculars

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "One of my favorite things is a framed picture by Matt Mullenweg of an old set of mounted binoculars. The eye pieces are worn and the blue paint on the metal binoculars looks like it's not the first coat of paint it has seen. It's wonderful, and I find new"

Monday, July 29, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: Organize Your Content – The Sequel

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "In the previous blog exercise, "Blog Exercises: Organize Your Content," you were to create a giant lists of all the posts you have published in a link list organized by topic. If you have been blogging for a while, that exercise may have taken some ti"

Sunday, July 28, 2013

[New post] WPEngine Offers Special Discount for WordPress Hosting and WordCamp San Francisco

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "Rarely will you find me promoting anything commercial here on my site, but I have to give a big round of applause about my incredible, life-saving and life-changing experience working with the amazing team at WPEngine web hosting. I'll tell the full st"

Friday, July 26, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: Organize Your Content

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "In "The Giant Blog Exercise Check List Part 1" I presented you with a giant list of all the posts I've published in these Blog Exercises so far in 2013. It was an amazing exercise and it is now your turn to do the same exercise. Your blog exercise toda"

Thursday, July 25, 2013

[New post] The Giant Blog Exercise Check List Part 1

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "July is the midway point of these Blog Exercises and time for a Giant Blog Exercise Checklist to help you keep score of the exercises you've done, and what's left undone. I've arranged the blog exercises by similarity, tasks related to each other, rath"

[New post] Blog Exercises: When to Hit Publish

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "In this ongoing series, Blog Exercises, you've been exploring your site stats to determine where your audience is coming from and why. Now is the time to explore the when. When do the majority of your site visitors arrive on your site? Is there a patt"