1 Simple Tip to Improve Readability and SEO at the Same Time
January 23, 2008
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One of the questions I get asked a lot is, “Are you an SEO Expert?”
When I talk with the asker a bit, usually what they want to know is, “Can you help my site get ranked higher in the search engines?”
You bet I can do that.
Did you know there is something you can do that will not only help with your search engine rankings but also help make your posts more readable for people at the same time?
There is a catch, though. To do this you have to learn a tiny amount about HTML coding. The good news is that it is pretty easy. So don’t panic. You can learn how quickly. Let’s dive in. Read more
Joining the High Calling Blogs
January 20, 2008
I’m excited to announce that SuccessCREEations has joined the High Calling Blogs.
Blog Network
The High Calling Blogs is a new faith based blog network that is setting out to explore the intersection of faith in the workplace. Here’s an excerpt from their about page:
TheHighCalling.org seeks to connect people with the faith that undergirds and sustains all that we do. That’s why it is the high calling of our daily work. Daily work embraces all aspects and activities of daily life—including home, community, leisure, as well as occupation.
There are two options for someone who wants to join the High Calling Blog community. Read more
Errors Upgrading WordPress – Troubleshooting Tips
January 14, 2008
Not everyone follows instructions. When upgrading your WordPress site not following the upgrade instructions can cause some really unpleasant things to happen and give some scary error messages.
Maybe you messed things up through ignorance. Or if you’re like me you might just try doing it wrong just to see what happens.
If you’re in a panic and feeling like the guy to the left here because your upgrade seems to be messing things up, don’t fear. Most problems can be overcome.
And the good new is hopefully you won’t even loose much of your data!
Provided we do things right, that is. 
Putting it Off
I have an old much neglected personal blog that I’ve been hesitating to upgrade. There have been several new versions of WordPress out since I’d last upgraded it. I knew the theme I was using was not compatible with the latest version along with an unknown number of the way too many plugins I was running on the site.
Top that off with the fact that I was using the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin and was unsure how the conversion would work out now that WordPress has native tagging built in and I’d been really procrastinating.
Yesterday I had at it. Finally. Read more
When Hosting Goes Bad
January 3, 2008
Web hosting is not a 100% thing. I tell people that while most reputable hosts legitimately claim 99% up time things do break. It doesn’t matter whether they are mechanical or electronic. Bad things happen from time to time.
That 99% figure is an average. What that means is that during any given month your web host’s server could be down for 7 hours or more and still qualify. Or, say they only had one outage during the whole year. That same 99% up time claim could be true if the server went down for 3 days straight.
Crazy. But true.
A Recent Case Study
Between Christmas and New Years I noticed a friend’s web site was down. Because April is a close friend of the Cree house I shot her an email, asked what’s up and if there was anything I could do to help.
April said she’d initially panicked when she saw the error message but had already contacted her web host and they were performing a server update. They assured her all would be back to normal shortly.
On April’s web site she’s got two different blogs, My Beautiful Chaos and Making Life Work for You. When the server update was done everything looked like it was OK with her second blog.
But there was some lingering Chaos on My Beautiful Chaos. 
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