How to Add an Opt-in Form For Your Mailing List to Your Facebook Profile

How to Add an Opt-in Form For Your Mailing List to Your Facebook Profile

These instructions are for adding an aWeber opt-in form, but they’ll work for any other mailing list service that gives you HTML code for your form (not Javascript).
First, you’re going to need a Facebook Application called Profile HTML. So, in one window, go log into your Facebook account and look down at the bottom left [...]

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New FTC Guidelines – What You Need to Know

Gyutae Park over at WinningTheWeb.com offers insight on the new FTC guidelines and how they affect us as bloggers/internet marketers: New FTC Guidelines for Bloggers & Internet Marketers – The Good, The Bad, and Everything Else You Need to Know
The new guidelines are available in a PDF document, if you want to slog through it.
Or, [...]

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You Might Be In Trouble If…

You Might Be In Trouble If…

Consider this the Suzanne-Bird-Harris.com’ version of a Public Service Announcement.
You might be in trouble if…the web dude you hired to build your fancy new WordPress site tells you upon completing your site, “Ok, now…just one thing: Don’t EVER upgrade WordPress, or your site will go away.”
This actually happened recently to someone I know. She contacted [...]

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It’s Time for Your Annual Website Review and Checkup

It’s Time for Your Annual Website Review and Checkup

The beginning of the year is a good time to perform an annual review of your website and make the necessary tweaks and fixes to address any issues you find.

Your WordPress and Plugin Versions

What Version of WordPress Are You Using?
As of this post, the current version of WordPress is 2.9.1. If you’re a version or [...]

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WordPress 2.9…er…2.9.1

WordPress 2.9…er…2.9.1

If you haven’t upgraded to WordPress 2.9 yet, check out this quick video to see what you’re missing:

Plugin compatibility verification
Bulk updating of plugins
Integrated image editing
Ridiculously EASY video embedding
Trash/Restore feature
Much more!

Now some of us, on some hosts, experienced a bug right off the bat having to do with the publishing of posts scheduled in advance. [...]

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How to Choose an eZine Service Provider Teleclass

How to Choose an eZine Service Provider Teleclass

Hosted by Marty Marsh and yours truly. In this one hour teleclass we’ll explore:

• Why you must use an eZine Service Provider for your email marketing
• What you must know to choose an eZine Service Provider
• The PROS and CONS of 7 of the Top eZine Service Providers
• Answers to your burning eZine publishing questions

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In Others' Words: November 23, 2009

In Others' Words:  November 23, 2009

5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers And Developers – Smashing Magazine
See footnotes section

Top 10 Most Common Coding Mistakes in WordPress Plugins « planetOzh
A must read for plugin developers.

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In Others' Words: November 22, 2009

In Others' Words:  November 22, 2009

How to Get Your Site Indexed In Google & Other Search Engines, Quickly (I Hope) | Local SEO Guide
While there is indeed no substitute for getting links, here are a number of to-do’s that I have picked up over the years that can make a difference, in no particular order:

Getting Indexed | Web Design Workplace
Years [...]

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A Risk A Day and a Blog Reborn

A Risk A Day and a Blog Reborn

Once upon a time there was a lovely woman in Georgia named Laura who started a blog on a topic she was most passionate about: taking risks. She named it A Risk a Day, and as such, intended to blog every day about taking risks in life and business.
While she had no lack of material [...]

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Use Skribit To Cure Writer's Block and Build Community

Use Skribit To Cure Writer's Block and Build Community

Marty and I were talking – cooking up some cool plans we’ll be telling you about soon – and he asked me if I’d heard of Skribit. I hadn’t.
He sent me the link, and I quickly found out that Skribit helps you suggest ideas on your favorite blogs, giving them fresh ideas and connecting the [...]

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