Well it has been a while! And that is really no excuse, except that I have been productive (to a degree). No, not making a lot of money but definitely learning the art, skill and finer points of standing up websites, especially blogs for brick and mortar storefronts. I am also finding that the basics are still very important but easy to forget once your skill level improves.

For instance, do you rename admin on your Wordpress site after standing up the site? From a security...

So, I recently discovered submitting my site to directories for free right now. What does "directory submitting" mean? Per google "A submission of a web site, its address, and description to a directory that allows submission by site owners." It apparently is a list of websites maintained under various topics that folks and search engines come to find topics that are being searched for. The directory itself becomes one of the links to your site--cool, huh? And why, might...

So it has been a while but I continue to post about my experiences with putting up sites. This is because it gives me something to look back on about my growth (or lack thereof) as I develop my "way" of building and setting up websites to make money with. Site number 8 is one that I built to drive traffic to a "brick and mortar" business. I'm sure that the owner was not originally impressed with my idea, but as I was able to explain it and simplify the process to them, they...

This is a post to recognize that persistence pays off. I think that most of us know that if you keep doing something over and over, one day a switch goes off in your mind that says you finally "know" how to do it. I think that this is something like the process that happens when you are learning to tie your shoe laces (if you wear those kind of shoes in your country). The workflow of setting up an auto-responder is not hard when it comes to the actual steps for the vendor that you have...

I really want to keep up a sort of rhythm to posting about the building of my sites. But I'm finding that spurts of activity (called life) can really boost productivity or hold things up big time (sigh). . . .but I refuse to make excuses. . . one of my mentors calls an excuse a "well planned lie". I'll leave it with you to decide if that's the right definition. Anyway, after a few tussles with three major providers of products (who shall remain nameless for the purposes of this comment),...