mrohde on September 12th, 2010

To celebrate her first year of blogging Elle from Couple Money is holding a laptop give away. Check out her giveaway and submit your entries via twitter and blog post. The contest ends Sunday September 26th so submit your entries as soon as possible and let her know where you herd about this contest. Technorati [...]

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mrohde on September 10th, 2010

I was surfing the blogosphere recently and ran into a site talking about the Yakezie challenge. Essentially this challenge was inspired by the Financial Samurai blog in January 2010 to get personal fiancé bloggers to participate and help each other gain visibility based on Alexa rank. Joining the challenge is simple: 1) Install the Alexa [...]

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mrohde on September 9th, 2010

If you are a blogger or a webmaster who is looking to increase your sites relevance in the top search engines by stuffing comments with links to your blog there is one simple fact—you’re barking up the wrong tree! While there are a lot of misconceptions about how the spiders, which are at the heart [...]

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I have spent quite a bit of effort honing my skills to make sure that I get things done and more importantly get the right things done but one of the great equalizers seems to be the e-mail in box. I have found a couple great blog post that are worthy of sharing as well [...]

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In 2008 I wrote a blog post entitled “Outlook Macro: Flag and Move Message to Follow-up Folder” which has become one of my more popular posts. Nearly two years later this method has, fortunately, become obsolete because of the additions in Quick Step features in Outlook 2010. As part of my Getting Things Gone process [...]

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mrohde on July 27th, 2008

Image by Getty Images via Daylife After a busy week with the hurricane I am finally getting a chance to pick up some of the information from my RSS feeds and am working through them in reverse chronological order. A couple that I regularly follow have some topics that seem relevant to some of my [...]

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mrohde on July 19th, 2008

I just completed the WordPress 2.6 upgradd and it was incrediably easy.  The instructions simply tell you to backup the previous version, delete the previous files, run the upgrade program and thats it. Following the client upgrade you will be prompted to upgrade your plugins; for fortunatly all the plugins I use had an automatic [...]

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admin on April 6th, 2008

 After a number of rough days at work I have completed the migration to my new site. Although I had a number of additional pages I decided to archive the old site using HTTrack to archive my old site and move forward with my new site in the current format. With the new focus on [...]

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mrohde on November 5th, 2006

  With my consummate interest in web marketing and search engine optimization I just finished reading Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free by JD Frazer.  I was rather impressed with the author’s coverage of revenue opportunities for content providers.  As a cartoonist with a successful website, UserFriendly.org, he comes from an expert’s position [...]

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