No Twitter account. No Facebook fan page. You’ve been banned from YouTube. Your host suspended your website. Or your mailing list service has shut you down. Ahhhhhhhh!! It’s an online entrepreneur’s worst nightmare! Think it couldn’t happen? Ana Hoffman of Traffic Generation Cafe lost her Twitter accounts a few weeks ago. (Read the link to [...]
Here’s a peek behind the scenes at what I’m using to setup and create my blogging class. Sales Page I created the sales page within WordPress using the Premise plugin from Copyblogger. I love it because it’s a plugin and not a theme, so I can keep my “pretty” theme for my main site but [...]
How should you choose your blog title and blog’s domain name? I got a great question via email recently: Should I use my name for my blog’s domain, my company’s name, or a combination of keywords? When you choose your domain name, you’ve got many choices. You can do www.YourName.com or www.YourCompany.com or you can [...]
In the past year, I’ve blogged an average of 26 times per month, or 6 days a week. This blog has been around for a couple of years. And I get all excited about blog challenges, plugins, WordPress updates, and bloggy things. So you can safely assume a couple of things: * I like to [...]
What’s Your Plan B for When Disaster Data Loss Strikes? Backups have been a hot topic lately in the blog-o-sphere and online with hackers attacking, sites like YouTube pulling content without warning, and other data loss disasters. So what’s the best way to protect yourself? You need a backup plan. A good backup plan is [...]
Got a question this week about cPanel backups so I’ve answered it in a short video. Here’s how to grab a cPanel backup of your hosting account, and why you may want to make this one of your regular routines.
Are you all tied up? I couldn’t resist the fun photo for today’s post. You may have noticed the last few months I’ve done a monthly wrap up post. Have you wondered why? In no particular order, here are 8 of my reasons… As you read them see if it might be something that would [...]
Can I ask you a favor? If you’ve found the content on my blog valuable, helpful, or even just entertaining, would you take a couple of minutes to add your review at Alexa? If you don’t want an Alexa account you can login with Facebook to leave a review. But if you’ve got a website [...]
When I asked earlier this month what topics my readers would like help with, Twitter and social networking were high on the list. Since Twitter is one of my favorite topics I’m thrilled about this. I’ve found Twitter to be a fantastic way to connect with people and drive traffic back to my website.
Ready for more link building ideas? Yesterday I shared five easy link building strategies. Today I’ll share five that aren’t as easy. They take more time. But the results are worth it. 6. Submit articles to article directories and other information portals. A nice percentage of my traffic comes from articles that I’ve written and [...]
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About Michelle Shaeffer
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Michelle has been online since the late 80s, creating websites since the early 90s, and has coded thousands of web pages in that time. She's worked as a virtual assistant and website designer for small business owners including marketers, authors, coaches, crafters, and other solopreneuers.
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