As you’ll note, I have a new corporate-looking template, Regulus by Binary Moon.
What might take a new blogger about 30 seconds to do (switching the theme in the Theme selector) took me a few hours to port over all over analytics tools, additional plugins and SEO-enhancements (detailed in SecretBlogWeapon).
Switching themes has given a number of advantages too.
You might’ve found that Alexa was a little slow, or chugging along a couple of hours ago.
Everything seems to have stabilized somewhat, and it looks like they’ve some upgrades in place.
Here’s what you can do now.
Blogging can be a solitary pursuit, which is why I look snooping around at Blog Network List. (BNL)
Did you know there are at least 80 blog networks out there? (Well, BNL is tracking 80 now.)
I collected my Fujitsu Lifebook from the tech support center today.
What had been expected to take a couple of hours, finally took a day.
Needless to say, I’m happy to be working on my laptop again.
And upon reflection, there’re a number of lessons learned.
Teresa Valdez Kein from the Blog Business Summit (the same folks who’re running the Publish and Prosper free business blogging book promo) has done a great job of summarizing the key points of said recently-concluded conference.
Check out the conference synopsis here: Blog Business Summit
Teresa has kindly uploaded a number of the presentations in PDF format, and I’ve learned quite a bit from them.
My blog output has been hit by a number of things:
Oh well. Continue reading