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Q&A: Is BlogUpp a safe and reliable way to promote a blog?

Posted on June 19, 2014

Question from Sylvia M.: Rick, I have a womens’ book review blog that I’m trying to promote. I’ve been writing at least one post every day for 7 months, but my traffic is still just a trickle compared to where I would like it to be.

I was doing some research on the Internet about how to grow blog traffic and I discovered a service called BlogUpp. Since there’s no sign-up of any kind required and you don’t have to give them any personal information, I’m seriously considering adding their widget to my blog.

I have a couple of questions that I’d like to ask you before I start using the BlogUpp widget:

1) Is it really effective at driving traffic to a blog?

2) Will using BlogUpp cause me any problems with the search engines ranking my blog posts?

Thanks in advance for your help Rick!

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

Do you own a domain name? If so, don’t ignore those “Verify Contact Info” emails from your domain registrar!

Posted on January 23, 2014

If you own a domain name for a website or blog, you’re probably familiar with the emails that your domain registrar sends out every year asking you to verify the contact information for your domain.

Up until now you could simply ignore those emails and nothing drastic would happen, but not anymore. Ignoring those emails will now result in your domain being suspended by the registrar!

New regulations just announced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) specify that your domain registrar must suspend your domain if you fail to respond to a verification email within 15 calendar days. The suspension will remain in place indefinitely until you verify the information. [Read more…]

Google completes first PageRank update Since February 2013

Posted on December 7, 2013

Yesterday, Google completed their first Toolbar PageRank Update since February 2013.

Many bloggers who had created their blogs early in the year had been wondering why the PR of their blogs’ home pages were still stuck at zero, but now they can finally see where their sites stand in the eyes of Google.

For several years a website’s PageRank was a major determining factor that Google’s ranking algorithm used to determine where a given web page should rank against other pages on the web for a given search term. In general, the higher a page’s PR, the higher it would be displayed in the search results for a given search. [Read more…]

How to use Firefox as an FTP client

Posted on September 17, 2013

Firefox is one of the most poplar web browsers in use today, primarily because of the huge number of outstanding add-ons that are available for it. One of my favorite Firefox add-ons is FireFTP, a wonderful extension that lets you send and receive files via FTP right from a tab in the Firefox browser window!

I use FireFTP every single day to upload images and other files to my WordPress blogs. Follow the steps below if you’d like to give it a try. [Read more…]