I received an message today from a reader wanted to know about a particular company. This company offers an advertising service, and bills itself as giving you 100% of the profits. And they do it for only a one-time fee. First off, I think the focus on 100% profit appeals, but not much. I’m reminded of those ’sell your own house’ businesses, where you can eliminate the middleman and keep all the profits. How many...

You want a steady supply of new articles on your blog so the search engines keep visiting, but you also would like to sleep, eat, vacation, or at least get away from your computer for a couple of hours - what do you do? Now I know I’m being facetious - unless you are writing the great American novel online, 1 or 2 hours a day is all you need to maintain a blog, and...

I found this out the hard way - in moving a blog to another site, I dumped the SQL data for the blog, and then entered it into the new site (it’s a quick and dirty way of transferring a blog). However, I thought I’d be creative, and change the database prefix from the default ‘wp_‘ to something more related to the blog. That’s because I planned to combine multiple blogs on a single site,...

I read an interesting post on server balancing - the problem was how to divide the work between servers, so each got a fair amount, based on their abilities? It makes sense - after all, if you split evenly, and the servers aren’t even, you’re overworking one and underworking the other. It’s a fun computer science issue I solved years ago (and has no doubt been solved many times before me), but it has a...

There’s two ways to transfer a blog to another server, as I was reminded tonight - the easy way and the hard way. The easy way is a simple XML output of the articles, (using the Manage;Export;Download Export File in Admin) and then the reverse on the other blog (Manage;Import;WordPress;Upload file and import). But, this doesn’t include the blog settings, theme, plugins or anything else. Or you can port over the whole database - but...

In the business forums I frequent, far too many times the question comes up: Can I get a domain name with Company X’s trademark in it? The Short Answer: yes. The Long Answer: no - you’ll hate yourself if you do. Frankly, there’s nothing stopping you from taking a name like eBay or WordPress and creating a domain around it - many people do, and registrars like Godaddy and NameCheap will happily sell you one...