Some people install WordPress in a subdirectory, so they can point to their blog from their main site.

The initial impulse usually seems to be to name the directory /blog/

This is often not a good idea, for a couple of reasons:

Keywords in the URL are valuable. This is prime real estate in your Search Engine Optimization efforts, and shouldn’t be ignored. For example, if you’re doing a blog on dog training, which do you think benefits you more:

http://egwebsite.com/dog-training/index.php

http://egwebsite.com/blog/index.php

Install your blog in a subdirectory called …

For people who work on the Internet, blogs are a ‘been there, done that’, sort of thing.

But for others, blogs mean no more than anything else on the Internet.

So to cut through the tech, and illuminate the REAL reason you want a blog, I’ve released a report I wrote:

How DO I Make Money With Blogs?

It explains what blogs are, why they are a good thing (and they are a VERY good thing), and the different ways you can turn a blog into money.

Take a …

I finally got around to updating/uploading my Open Source plugins to WordPress.org – my Cron Plugin to make cron-like jobs easier in WordPress, and my plugin to add the SECRET_KEY value in older WordPress installs.

You can review both here and there as well – enjoy!

Statistically, you are viewing this page with Internet Explorer – roughly 5 times as likely as using Mozilla or Firefox, the #2 choice.

However, there are other alternatives out there, and using them is of benefit.

For instance, if you try Safari, then you’re using the browser favored by Mac users, and you’re seeing the world though ‘their’ eyes.

A recent one I’ve been trying out is Opera, and I’ve been favorably impressed.

Not because of the features (although they are nice, especially popup tabs that appear right beside the …

While browsing Andy Beard’s site on Internet Marketing I came across his post on comment spam.

I hate comment spam.

Many of you with blogs have a daily chore of vaporizing the many ads from your comments area (I won’t mention the subjects here; I hate the idea of this post bing linked to those topics in the search engines).

Oddly enough, there are some who, while bailing out that comment flood from their blog, then turn around and use the same technique on other’s blogs!

Simply put, comment …