The past two weeks have been tough for DragonBlogger.com as the site had been dealing with intermittent 502 errors and problems that cut visitors by 40% and left many unable to join giveaways and admins unable to login to write any new articles or do any editing. I hadn’t had a single problem in 10 months of being on Synthesis web hosting and all of a sudden I had these 502 error issues rampant over … Read more
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Some tips for those who still use Windows Live Writer which is still my top offline blog post editor for sites like WordPress even though it doesn’t have native Featured Image support and there are no new extensions and Microsoft won’t be updating the software anymore. Live Writer Delete Blog Templates Some of the things I often have to do are clear out template files to download new templates, and while this can be done … Read more
I had written a post about the BloggerJet Strip the Blog tool previously and though it worth noting and sharing the recent update to the tool which includes adding Pinterest and number of comments into the report that displays when you search for the most popular articles on a blog. This tool is ideal for seeing the most popular posts on sites so that you can get article ideas or help create a reference or … Read more
The Gleam sweepstakes platform now has a pretty fantastic referral program that bloggers can take advantage of right away. Now if you refer anyone to sign up and use Glean.io to run their next or future giveaways you will receive either credit which can be applied as discounts to your own subscription or cash. Just log into Gleam.io and go under your account settings, there you can get your affiliate URL for Gleam.io and start … Read more
So many peer bloggers ask me how to find advertisers to offer products for them to review and this is a great opportunity that Tmart approached me with that both helps them find bloggers as well as bloggers find products that they can get to review and help jump start their product review goals. Tmart offers a wide variety of gadgets and accessories and is willing to offer free products to bloggers in exchange for … Read more
This plugin will solve the how to fix the visual tab in Wordpress from breaking your script or html tags problem.
This Saturday, November 2nd marks the 5th annual Extra Life 25 Hour Video Game Marathon. The event happens every year in order to help raise money for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals all across the world. Extra Life started as a way to honor Victoria Enmon which her battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia helped inspire the Sarcastic Gamer Community to try to raise money due to Victoria being a gamer herself and help her out by receiving … Read more
I spent a good deal of time over the past few nights tweaking and testing every configuration setting possible with Incapsula to eek out better caching and performance for my sites that run behind Incapsula. As you may or may not already know, Incapsula is my favorite cloud service for security your WordPress blog without having to rely on a plugin and let the potential attacks hit your web hosting provider directly. I like attacks … Read more
When it comes to strategies for enlarging your blog community, there seems to be a common online authority. As a result, most of the suggestions on this list are coming from an often quoted source on precisely this topic. It would seem that when it works, it works, so feel free to implement them in order to grow your blog’s community. Write as though you are “talking” to your audience. This type of format … Read more
Does Rockstar Games have what it takes to make a great game even better? Being a gamer there is always those special two or three game that I look forward to year after year. Some of which tend to deliver the same content as year’s prior and other’s that I cannot bear to even give my hard earned money to just end up seeming like last year’s model with a few tweaks here and there. … Read more
When it comes to mobile devices these days people want to have a device that they can rely on that will give them the longest battery life possible. Nothing can be more frustrating than when we receive an important call, email or text and notice that our phone has only about 3-5% left on it making that important response back seem like a game of “Beat the Clock” However I was given the opportunity to … Read more
Very few hosting providers offer off-site DNS, GoDaddy is the only major one that I know of, so when I switched DragonBlogger.com from a Bluehost shared hosting plan to WebSynthesis back in February I wasn’t thinking about the fact that I need an Offsite DNS management because WebSynthesis only hosts your WordPress they don’t do any domain management at all. Most hosting providers that use CPanel like Bluehost, Hostgator, Hostmonster…etc require that you have a … Read more
The different ways of publishing content, implies different ways to structure a text. There are a number of guidelines that can guide us when making decisions about what and how to write on a website. This will help you achieve your goals and thus, have a better reach to potential clients and/or users. Today, everything is fast and direct, users do not read scanned pages, they give it a quick look until they find something … Read more
For the past 45 years Gen Con has been a staple in the gaming community where gamers from Dungeons & Dragons to Magic: The Gathering can come together and enjoy a weekend full of fun and festivities. This year marks the 11th Gen Con in my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. For those not familiar with Gen Con let me give you a bit of the convention’s history as well as some of my own personal … Read more
Most blogger aspire for their blogs to be more than just a diary of random thoughts and information for only friends or family to read or whomever. At some point many bloggers may start out this way but then start finding an audience and only after they decide they may want to monetize or try to bring in a part time or full time income from doing online blogging, affiliate marketing do they then realize … Read more
I read so much content on Pulse its incredible and as a technology and gaming blogger I can really tell you that when you create content online that you are hoping people will consume and enjoy you have to employ and deliver something that stands out against an already and ever increasingly crowded Internet. So when I read an article on Destructoid that introduced readers to Hot Pepper Game review I had to check it … Read more
I have bounced between several mailing management systems over the years starting off with Mailchimp, then testing out Simplycast, I have seen though never officially signed up for Aweber I am fully aware of it’s capability and I know a lot of bloggers trying to save costs will implement a mailing list solution that can leverage Amazon SES smtp service which charges a mere .10 cents per thousand mailings. Well, Glock Software makes a WordPress … Read more
When you run a blog that requires image thumbnails on the homepage or in posts you can find yourself in a situation where you are constantly looking for images that can capture that post and article as well as draw attention for those who would skim your homepage, notice the image along with the title and click to read more. Sometimes however you just forget to set a featured image or you have a certain … Read more