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How to get more traffic to your blog

I don’t need no magnetic poetry!

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How to Make your WordPress Blog Stop Working by Trying to Make it Run Faster

In which Lazerus attempts to discover the source of evil lurking in some small corner of the server.

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Spam Comment of the Day

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I now spend more time deleting moderating spam on this blog than I do actually writing. Annoying as hell. Although, I found the wording of this one to be pretty amusing: “The first thing that will happen will be the termination of Lustig’s disastrous buy allegra grab me and [...]

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Where have I been?

In which Lazerus describes his first movement away from Ink-on-Paper.

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How to Make a Blog on WordPress using Network Solutions

1- Buy a domain name (like www.jefflazerus.com) 2- Buy a hosting account on Network Solutions 3- Install WordPress out of the “Tools” panel in your account manager area 4- Login and post, but don’t expect it to work the same each time, and always expect some new useless (?) upgrade from WordPress at random times. [...]

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How to Make a WordPress Blog Run Faster

Optimizing WordPress using a CDN (Content Delivery Network) My blog had been running, if that’s what you could call it, at speeds approximating a gimpy turtle walking in mud uphill… you get the idea. So I started investigating the technical methods used by pro web developers to make their blogs load fast.

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Before you make a claim, get the data.

This  kind of post is always interesting to me. Someday, I’ll figure out why, but for now suffice it to say that when you claim to be an expert about something, at least follow your own rules. The article (a self-referential metablog which attempts to give you some rules for making a good blog) instructs the [...]

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Personally, I think Ling’s website RULES

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I can say “RULES” and not sound unprofessional, right? Anyway: I first saw this website after a SethGodin post and was inspired! It is actually one of the most interesting sites I’ve ever seen, and considering the buzz about it, Ling is doing something right! So I am reading [...]

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Not Exactly Rocket Science : Top Ten Bacteria

Image via Wikipedia My new favorite thing. I think I may replace all the marketing blogs I read with science blogs. I especially love Ed Yong’s bio: Ed Yong lives in London and works at Cancer Research UK. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his attempt to make science interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion [...]

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The Slovenia Report

When I look over the Google Analytics for this blog, I look for anomalies. Right now, ANY VISIT to the blog is something of an anomaly, so I study them all and try to figure out the where/why/how of that visit. Yesterday’s post and comments are not so much an experiment as they are the logical conclusion [...]

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