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‘It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear.’ -Frank Luntz Last week they were running a deal at AppSumo that made the cost of user testing low enough that it would be silly not to try it. So I decided to give it a go and I learned a lot about how people use [...]
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Late last week I was approached by Seth Shoultes about a new plugin he made for E-Junkie. The plugin allows a wordpress user to quickly and easily add an E-Junkie shopping cart to their website. I thought the plugin was really cool and helpful and figured you guys might want to know about it. Then [...]
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Peter Hyman (whose new blog we are about to launch) has officially discovered the best Social Media Icon set ever. And it’s free too. A sample image is here, but there are plenty more icons in the whole pack.
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I’ve been making and improving websites for people for almost five years now. And I’m always looking patterns that make webmasters successful over time. Finally, I think I’ve found one such pattern. The Web is a Marketplace Before we dive into the pattern that makes a website successful, let’s play a little game: Let’s think [...]
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It seems like the obvious answer is no, right? Is it possible to be too on top of it? Can you be too informed? A couple of articles I’ve read lately have lead me to believe that yes, it is possible to be too informed. Let’s take a look at Dan Ariely’s (you might recognize [...]
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This last week was tough. On top of my brother’s accident that placed him in the hospital for a couple of days, Alaina and I worked long and hard to put together the first SWAY Search workshop. Presenting the ideas that have helped me achieve some level of success in SEO proved to be more [...]
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Click here to download now. What is The Popcorn Method? The popcorn method grew out of a problem I had recently. I needed to put a ton of content up quickly on a new WordPress-powered website and it all had to rank well. This is quite a serious task to be given, and the fact [...]
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Jakob Nielsen, the God of usability, has his first article on the usability of the iPad. The summary doesn’t look too good: iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems. read the whole article here.
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I’ve been listening to a lot of oxford-style debate thanks to NPR’s new and awesome show, Intelligence Squared. After hours of listening to thoughtful and well-spoken people debate the merits (and problems associated with) teachers’ unions, paying for sex, atheism, etc., it’s hard not to think about subject close to my heart with the same [...]
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Well what a great idea the folks at WordPress(/automattic) have come up with. It’s called VaultPress. Let’s take a step back for a sec. Crap happens. And when your blog gets hacked you don’t want to be wishing that you’d been making backups. Not everyone that uses WordPress is a WordPress consultant and shouldn’t be [...]
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Maybe I’m just used to Website Grader always giving me a great score, but I was bummed when I ran my website through WooRank today to get a measly 56.7 WooRank. Even though I have no idea what constitutes a WooRank or even how good 56.7 is (is there some kind of bell curve?) well… [...]
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Thanks to the power of twitter, the wonderful Eric Katz was kind enough to help me with a nasty IE css bug that I just couldn’t figure out. Eric must be a fallen angel because he also declined payment in lieu of a couple of links to his and his family’s website. I’m happy to [...]
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SEO for WordPress will never be the same with Brian Clark’s new ScribeSEO plugin. This plugin has just launched, so if you haven’t heard of it you really have to check it out now. The brains behind Thesis Theme and Copyblogger is the founder of this new plugin, so you know it’s going to be [...]
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Have you been eyeballing the Affiliate Theme for WordPress? If you’ve avoided buying the theme because of the price, well then this Affiliate Theme Coupon Code is going to really make your day.
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I challenge you to think of anyone who doesn’t procrastinate. Can you think of anyone? I can’t. Procrastination seems to me to be one of the most ubiquitous traits in human nature. We all do it. So if we can’t get rid of the tendencey to put things off, how can we become better at [...]
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This is a public retraction in regard to a post which has since been taken down called ‘How To Catch a Cookie Stuffer’. Thesis Theme HQ was and is in no way involved in Cookie Stuffing. As with all of the posts on this website, that post was purely my opinion. (Please see my website [...]
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Link Builders Pro doesn’t pull through. How NOT to hire a linkbuilder.
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Special thanks goes out to Tanisha Robinson for her work rewriting my homepage copy. Learn more about Tanisha in this post.
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My email from Google Analytics inviting to join the Event Tracking Experiment.
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Get your copy sent to your email and discover 10 new wordpress plugins that could make your life much easier (or at least more fun.)