When I mention to friends that I have been working on a lot of blogs lately, they frequently ask me why anyone would want a blog. This is often followed by a question about whether or not it’s all just stream of consciousness nonsense that there is no reason to care about. My answer to [...]

What are tags and why do bloggers use them? There are two simple reasons… 1) Tags allow users to search your blog more effectively. For instance, you may write a post about music, but the word music is not in the post. By adding the tag, music becomes a word that can be searched for [...]

Many of my clients, including clients who are putting up blogs, don’t seem to understand what RSS is. In a nutshell, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. In fact, if you use WordPress or another blog that supports outgoing RSS, your posts are automatically available for syndication. Pretty simple. So, what does that mean?