Is Your Permalink Dragging You Down

Post Links Should Help Your Blog I did not intend to make the topic of links a series but it’s funny how things work out. (or is it called snowballing?). In the last post I defined the basic link types. I probably should have written about this posts topic long ago but I didn’t have the information I do now. What I am talking about is permalinks. If you are on a self hosted wordpress blog and your post titles look...

Video Tutorial: Adding an Image to Sidebar

How to Add an Image to WordPress Sidebar Sometime you might want to display a photo or image in your wordpress sidebar. You could use code from an image hosting site such as photobucket or picasa. But I don’t like relying on a third party site to display my images. I have had them stop displaying for no reason. To easily get around this problem, is to hold the images right on your own blog. Follow these easy steps that...

Stop the Excuses; Start Blogging

Before you can Speed Blog, you have to actually have a blog. Luckily for everyone wishing to start blogging, it is so easy. And if you have an ag business, you really can’t use the excuse that you don’t have enough time. I have considered writing about how to start a blog, but when I saw the following infographic I knew I had to share it. I mean why reinvent the wheel, right? So give your ag business a boost into...

11 Ways to Speed Blog

No Time To Blog Almost every blogger’s biggest obstacle to keeping up their website is the lack of time. But honestly what takes the most amount of time in blogging is setting it up. Once you have it started, maintaining and updating your blog doesn’t have to take that long. Yet reading the featured farmer guest posts, time is listed as the most common obstruction to blogging. So this post is for everyone that is...

Start A Self Hosted Blog

Without the Hassle Starting a blog can be very intimidating. With all the choices and technical details to learn, it can stop anyone in their tracks. So why not let someone set up your blog for you. or Are you ready to move up to a self hosted blog for more control and better design options? But you find it daunting to figure out how to join a domain name with a hosting account and blog platform? You can let someone do that...

How to Add an Image to a Post

I have been getting some really good questions lately through the contact page from readers. The questions concern different topics about their individual blogs. The one I wanted to share this time was from a person having trouble with adding a picture and text in a post. Since it is very hard sometimes to understand what specifically the trouble is through email, I made a quick screencast tutorial about adding a picture and...