The 42nd Estate

A few days ago, the fine Wordpress folks released the latest version of their blogging/content management system, Wordpress 2.8. In addition to bug fixes and speed tweaks, Wordpress 2.8 includes five new helpful features. Read the full post

If you blog, you likely want comments on your posts, right? One of the great things about blogging, is that your readers can chime in with their opinion and either expand on your original article or show a different perspective on the …

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Ah, captchas, the bane of many internet users around the globe. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t, but nearly always they annoy your visitors.

For those who don’t know, captchas are those verification fields on web forms that you must pass before …

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Well, a few days ago Google updated their public Page Rank for the first time since we launched SP4 and low and behold we were ecstatic to see we were upgraded to a PageRank 5! But enough talk about how happy we were, what you’re really interested in is how we did it. Read the full post

When publishing guest posts, there’s a few sound tips to keep in mind for the byline that will provide the most value to the guest writer, your readers and yourself. As we’ve written before, guest posts are a great way to promote yourself. By writing a solid guest post, that blog’s readers may click through to your blog and become your readers as well. Even if they don’t click through, the link(s) back to your site will help with optimizing your site for search engines. Read the full post