If you are a blogger or a website owner that gets a partial income from showing affiliate links and banners you won't like adblockers. They will prevent your ad-banners to be shown in your visitor's browsers. Fact is that more and more people don't like beïng bombarded with ads all the time, especially if those ads are repeated on all sites that you visit. Google … [Read More...]
My WordPress Theme Choice
At the time I am writing this, the site has the Daily Dish Pro theme from StudioPress.com for its layout. Why Daily Dish? Because I wanted a clean theme that would put the focus on the content of my writing and not the site's layout. This theme was developed for the Genesis Framework and targetted towards Food bloggers. You can see an example below For SEO purpose the … [Read More...]
Hummerbie.com And It’s Future Direction
All the posts on hummerbie.com have been moved to the Website Beginners Guide. A number of pages will soon follow. Why the change? Because I want to go back to the basics for this blog, writing about WordPress, Blogging, and SEO. Joomla will not be covered here, but if you want to read more on the newest Joomla! news, use the Website … [Read More...]
My WordPress Website Hosting Choices
I have been running websites since 1999 and I have had my fair share of Website hosting companies to deal with. I can assure you, not all of my encounters were good ones, but I did find a few gems that I really like. Cheap Website Hosting As most website owners and site builders, I was looking for cheap website hosting when I started. And the ones I found did … [Read More...]
Using the Open Live Writer for Blogging
A couple of years back I started using Microsoft Windows Live Writer to publish posts on my WordPress.com blogs. But after some time I was getting used to writing my articles directly in the WordPress editor screens and I forgot about Live Writer. Windows Live Writer on Windows 10 When I wanted to use it again I had moved on to the Windows 10 OS. Downloading and … [Read More...]
AMP Pages and Google Search Results
I started to do a test about a month ago. I added AMP pages to my personal dutch website about my favorite youtube clips. I did, and still do, not expect much of it, it's just a simple … [Read More...]
Three Scary Choices for My Website
Today I want to tell you about the three scary choices I made for this website. You see, after a long time I just wanted to do something different and see how that would work out, so I changed … [Read More...]
WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers
Packt Publishers is very good when it comes to identifying great topics for their business and finding people who can write in a clear and simple way. In this new book WordPress 3 for Business … [Read More...]
A New Hummerbie.com Website Setup
I was playing with the thought of moving Hummerbie.com from Joomla! to WordPress for a while now. The new Google update gives me a good reason to finally move the site to the WordPress … [Read More...]
WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization
WordPress 3 SEO consists of several aspects and this book of Micheal David covers all of those aspects in his book WordPress 3 Search Engine Optimization Here is a short breakdown of each … [Read More...]