OK - this is a competition that is only for those attending Blog World Expo (please don’t comment below if you’re not attending). I know that excludes most readers but I hope we can include everyone a little by posting some pictures of the... 

A Guest post by Jade Craven . Have you heard of Johnny B Truant ? He started writing at ‘The Economy Isn’t Happening’ but recently, he revealed he’s made $10′000 in 3 months. In his Ittybiz column, he told how he made nearly... 

Out of the total number of visitors that land on blogs, I found out that only a small percentage actually stay and read posts. This is the problem with first-time blog visitors. You have to completely grab their attention for them to stick around. Once... 

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Mark Hayward . You can follow him on Twitter @mark_hayward . Do you ever feel like you want to pull your hair out over the lack of return (you feel like) you’re getting from your small business blogging... 

Today, Gravity Forms version 1.0 was released to the general public, and for $39, $99 or $199 you can purchase your own licensed version of Gravity Forms, the ultimate plugin for getting data from your users. I’ve done a reasonable write-up on... 

It’s been a couple of years since I ran this poll and I’m curious to see if the readership of this blog has shifted since then - so…. n How Long Have you Been Blogging? I don’t have a blog Less than 3 Months 3 to 6 Months 6 to... 

It seems that weblogtoolscollection.com’s WordPress plugin competition is, in their words, “heating up”. Here’s what they have to say about how things are going so far… We have 18 plugins announced so far for the competition,... 

It’s finally here for real. Check out the WordPress dev blog for full details, and you can download 2.8.1 from WordPress.org . Here’s just a sample of changes since 2.8.0… # Dashboard memory usage is reduced. Some people were running... 

Found this great video of John Lilly (CEO of Mozilla) giving a talk at WordCamp San Francisco via WordPress.tv . It’s packed with great stuff about community, and open-source, and all that fun stuff. Check it out below or at WordPress.tv Read... 

If you want to get your site loaded for your readers as fast as possible, yoast.com has a great article about using a CDN with WordPress (though any site can benefit from it). The article includes a bunch of information about CDN’s (including the...