Author: Dan Morris

Part 1 |Part 2 |Part 3 What level of expertise would you say you have achieved in your blogging career, and how do you measure that for yourself? If you’re not a beginner, are you an advanced level blogger? And what would you have to know to consider yourself an expert? I’ve put together this…

Part 1 |Part 2 |Part 3 There’s a huge difference between a blogging hobbyist and a professional. While some bloggers seem to have defied the odds and have stuck to WordPress.com, TypePad or Blogger, the rest of us have taken on the challenge of a self-hosted, totally controlled site. But even some beginners start that…

Part 1 |Part 2 |Part 3 Tracking Tracking is what separates the hobbyist from the professional. With Google Analytics alone you can know where your traffic comes from, which keywords consistently bring traffic, where that traffic goes and you can know which buttons on your site your traffic doesn’t care about. Imagine that! And that’s…

  Remember learning about leverage in physics class?  I think the discussion revolved around weights, pulleys, fulcrums, and anvils. Or something like that. The idea was we needed to lift something heavy and needed to find leverage to make it easier. In our blogging  world we’ve already gotten leverage in so many ways: WordPress: Isn’t…