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Help Visitors Navigate Your Site: Make a Site Index

February 13, 2006 – 6:54 am

This lands in the brain as “why didn’t I think of that”. A long time writer both of non-fiction and technical writing, on paper and computer, I adore indexes. I’ve created many of them within my word processor and think of them whenever I’m doing a book. Why didn’t I think of doing one on […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, Web Wise | Comments (7)

What Website Owners and Bloggers Know About Their Visitors

December 18, 2005 – 7:53 am

I’ve written a lot about how Google ranks websites and uses domain age in their page rankings, and how the future may include profiling in generating your search engine results, and a lot of other articles and resources about search engines and page ranking, so I was fascinated by an article in PC Magazine by […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Wise | Comments (2)

Blog Exercises: Dissecting Post Categories

May 13, 2013 – 4:17 am

In a recent article, Noah Weiss shared his struggle to figure out categories and tags on his personal site. I know many of you following these Blog Exercises have also struggled to figure out your categories, so I thought Noah’s site would be a perfect example, He has gratefully given me permission to rip his […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips | Tags: blog categories, categories, categories and tags, categorization, content, content management, content organization, navigation, post categories, site organization, structure, tags, web writing, what do you blog about, wordpress, Writing | Comments (4)

WordPress Anniversary: Comment Spam Lessons

May 11, 2013 – 10:57 pm

It’s hard to believe that I’ve learned much from comment spammers over the years. I’ve learned that they are among the most hated folks in the world, yet you have to respect them as well. As I look back on ten years of blogging with WordPress on this 10th Anniversary year, I realized that comment […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Struggles, Blogging, Blogging Tips | Tags: akismet, Blogging Tips, comment spam, comment spam prevention, comments, endurance, evil, how to blog, persistence, spam, spammers | Comments (14)

Blog Exercises: What Are Your Reference Articles

April 11, 2013 – 4:15 am

What are the articles that drive people to your site? What are the posts that help people understand and benefit most from what you publish on your site? What articles represent you as an authority on the subject? These are your reference articles. We all have them, the articles that explain who we are, what […]

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Blog Exercises: Does Your Site Look Spammy?

April 5, 2013 – 4:53 am

Does your site look spammy? How would you know whether or not your site looks spammy? It’s time for a spam check. Web design is hard, especially if you aren’t an expert. Yet, in many ways you are an expert if you are a fan of the web. You’ve seen enough sites to know the […]

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The Secret Recipe of Comment Spam Comments

April 4, 2013 – 3:05 pm

Mr. Louis Vuitton just sent me a message in my blog comments I’d like to share with you. I share this touching message because it is highly educational when it comes to the art of spam comments, and serves to remind us of why we love having Akismet, the best comment spam fighter, on our […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress News | Tags: akismet, comment spam, comments, evil, spam, spam comments, WordPress Tips | Comments (35)

Blog Exercises: Post-Op Care Content

March 29, 2013 – 4:38 am

I recently had some minor surgery and received an extensive list of post-operative care instructions. I was amazed at the in depth detail they went into, so I asked about it. The practitioner told me that they spent a year collecting all the questions people had about each surgery and treatment and created a paper […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Writing, Blogging Tips, Blogging, Blog Exercises | Tags: blog writing, Writing, editorial calendar, content, blog exercises, writing for the web, plans, publishing schedule, editing, post schedule, procrastination, task lists, things to do, drafts, faq, faq list, schedules | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Honor the Moment

March 26, 2013 – 4:57 am

In “Okay, Everybody, Group Hug!” the author of True Stitches, Heather, honored the moment of a publishing triumph. This is my 300th post. An accomplishment of sorts, I guess, although it took me years and years to get here. But along the way I have connected with so many wonderful people, which is the greatest […]

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Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

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Blog Exercises: Where Are You?

March 6, 2013 – 4:33 am

After agreeing to take on a writing assignment regarding Oregon history, I happily settled down to do a little preliminary online research. Because some of the towns I needed to research were located in areas I was not completely familiar with, I was relying on their local websites to point me to what I needed […]

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Blog Exercises: Category Counting

February 8, 2013 – 4:39 am

Think of categories and tags this way: Categories are your site’s table of contents. Tags are your index words. In general, most sites should have 5-12 categories max. Each category should represent a “body of work,” a collection of posts related to a focused topic. When you find a blog with dozens of categories, what […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips | Tags: assumption, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog organization, blog writing, Blogging Tips, body of work, categories, content, content with intent, organization, perception, planning, structure, tags, web writing, Writing | Comments (12)

DuckDuckGo: The Search Engine You Need to Meet

September 19, 2012 – 11:18 am

Recently, DuckDuckGo has been turning up in my referrers list. Curious about the name, and thinking it was a spam site, DuckDuckGo needed investigation. Seems I’ve been missing out on what could be the major competition to Google as a search engine. Here is a quick summary of what I learned about DuckDuckGo. It is […]

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What You Most Need to Know About WordPress

August 24, 2012 – 6:48 pm

At the recent WordCamp Portland 2012, I was asked by several attendees to cover the basics of WordPress and we came up with What You Most Need to Know About WordPress. Here are the “notes” from that unconference presentation. The Difference Between Categories and Tags I hear this question at WordCamps, from readers, students, and […]