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 Adsense ads are … [Read More...]
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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 belowFor SEO purpose the theme … [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 Beginners Guide website or follow Steve Burge and … [Read More...]
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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 … [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 … [Read More...]
Overview WordPress Versions and Associated Jazz Artists
This is an article that I have had on my to do list for a long time, so I finally did it. Here is a listing … [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 … [Read More...]
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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 3 things for Hummerbie.comThe last one is effective as of today, so check it out on-line. Change nr. 1 : Moving to a different Hostingprovider If you have ever changed hosting provider, you … [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 Bloggers by Paul Thewlis bring you the knowledge to start the process of blogging for any purpose, not just business.Here is a short overview of the chapters so you can see what is covered in this … [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 give me good reason to finally move the site to the WordPress platform.So I went from the old Hummerbie.com layout to this new version.Note: The very old hummerbie website was still on a Joomla! 1.0.x version and also needed to be moved to a new server to get an … [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 OptimizationHere is a short breakdown of each chapter:1. Getting Started: SEO Basics. Good introduction into the On-Page ranking factors that you need to be aware off, good in details information that you can use on your website before you get into … [Read More...]
Website Mission
When I started working on Hummerbie.com back in 2007 I had just one mission:Educating people on how to use Open Source Content management systems and improve their search engine rankings.Because why build a website, share your knowledge and not being found by search engines...?So here is my site with information about the mayor content management systems like WordPress and … [Read More...]
Hummerbie – Internet Ideas and Thoughts
I began this website to bring you my thoughts and Ideas about the Internet the way I like to use it.Too me its one big information source written by all kinds of knowledgeable people that want to share their knowledge.I guess its now time for me to start sharing the knowledge I gained in the last decades I have been on the Internet.Yes, its been that long since I first worked with … [Read More...]
