Updating To WordPress 2.3.2 Using Fantastico On BlueHost

UPDATE: As of today, 1/24/08, BlueHost customers can update to WordPress 2.3.2 using Fantastico.
WordPress has announced another update. The new version is 2.3.2.
Today’s Lesson
Apparently, the WordPress 2.3.2 update, will fix a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts, plus limits and stops some information leaks in [...]

Help! Getting Your Blog Discovered

Probably the most difficult part of blogging, is getting your blog discovered.
Often, you will read that blogging is easy. You write a post, hit “publish” and your writings are sent to cyberspace.
But, if you are new to blogging, you may begin to fear that your blog has gotten “lost” in [...]

Affiliate Marketing - Please Pass The Cookies

If you blog, sign up for an affiliate marketing program, and become an associate/publisher/affiliate, you may notice, in the terms and conditions for advertisers, the term “cookie”.
Some advertisers say they offer a 10 day cookie, others may offer a 120 day cookie. With some, the “cookie” is only good for one [...]

Phishing Emails Regarding PayPal

If you blog, and have a donate button or a “tip jar”, chances are you are using PayPal as the “collection service”.
Today’s Lesson
I have been receiving emails from what looks to be PayPal.
Some say I need to update my account. Others say, if I don’t “take action”, my account will [...]

What Are Paid Links

For some time now, there has been a debate going on about Google decreasing the page rank of a website or blog, if it has “paid links”.
Today’s Lesson
So, what are paid links?
Not knowing for sure which links Google considers as “paid links”, I decided to go right to the source. [...]

Celebrate Blogging

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I spend weeks preparing.
I’m a nut for Christmas lights. I put tons of lights outside, and add pieces of yard decor. When darkness comes, I flip the switch, and the whole yard lights up. It’s beautiful.
I also love to [...]

Baby Stepping Into Blogosphere

If I look back at some of my early posts, I laugh. I made up goofy definitions for some of the blogging terminology I was learning. In several posts, I was “beating my head against the wall” (I did that a lot back then), and others had obvious typos.
Three months into [...]

Google AdSense Ads - Do Less Mean More

Today’s Lesson
Two months ago, I started an experiment with Google AdSense, “ads for content”, ads.
As I stated in that post,
From this site, I have removed my Google Ads for Content, (which I had in the sidebar). Months ago, I read ( and I don’t know if this is true), that if you [...]

Help For New Bloggers With Low Traffic

Are you a new blogger, or as some of you call yourselves, “newbie blogger”, “nube”, “novice blogger”, “infant blogger, etc? Are you disheartened by the low visitor counts your blog is experiencing? Are you looking for help?
When you hit the “publish” button, do you wonder if your post actually went [...]

How To Create An Affiliate Text Link Ad

If you have a blog, and have signed up for affiliate ads, through such services as Commission Junction or LinkShare.com, you know you have the choice to insert banner/image ads, text link ads, or keyword link ads.
Today’s Lesson
Adding banner or picture ads of different sizes, is a matter of copying and pasting the HTML code [...]

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