Feedburner API Deprecation and How It Affects Your Site (or Feedburner Alternatives)

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Last night, a glitch in Feedburner’s system filled our Twitter stream with tweets from bloggers concerned about their site feeds. Feedburner, a web feed (RSS) management tool, has been a valuable tool in the blogger’s toolbox for many years. A few years back, Google acquired it, made some changes, and then promptly stopped developing and [...]

Recycling Old Blog Posts for New Content

recycling old blog posts

When I started blogging, I had a million-and-one blog posts swirling around in my head at any given time. It seemed the ideas would never dry up. Fast-forward 4 years, and I found myself struggling to compose one good one a week. It may have been caused by the (false) notion that everything under the [...]

Improve Your Site’s Load Time

increase your site's load time

One complaint I often hear from potential clients is that their sites are slow to load. No one wants their site to be “that site”; you know, the one that crashes your browser or takes so long for anything to show on your screen, that you just move on to something else. Bottom line: Viewers [...]

When It Comes to Your Business: Keep Your Dreams on Track

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Sure, you are a “small business”. But does that mean your ideas are small? That they can’t sprout and grow. When you were first planning your business, you had big plans. Big dreams for it. Now you are faced with the day-to-day list of things to do; things that had to be done, yesterday. Business [...]