A Smart Bear: Marketing tips for geeks

Did you ever noticied that only a few geeks are great marketers? As a former web developer myself, I must admit that I wasn’t good at topics as such as business and marketing. Happilly, since I launched Cats Who Code, I started to learn marketing principes and how to make money online. Here’s how.

Promote your blog: The power of a review

Last week, following the launch of my new blog WpRecipes.com, I have experimented what a blog review can bring you in terms of traffic and rss suscribers. Here is my report.

How a blog post becomes popular

Some days ago, one of my articles from CatsWhoCode became popular. How did it happened? Here’s the step by step story of a post which quickly became popular and provided me lots of traffic.

Blogger Mistakes: Are You a Free Affiliate?

The world of affiliate marketing has been around for close to a decade now, but only recently have bloggers started to discover the power and possibilities of monetize their blogs with affiliate marketing. Are you being a free affiliate?

Promote your blog: 250+ links to get free backlinks

In your blog promotion, getting quality backlinks is really important, in order to increase your pagerank and your blog visibility. I have compiled a list a 250+ Dofollow blogs, blogs using the CommentLuv plugin and blogs using the Top Commentators widget.

10 tips & plugins to get more comments on your Wordpress blog

Comments are a very important part of a blog: This is where your readers gives you feedback about your posts. Many bloggers loves to receive feedback on their articles, but it’s not always that easy, especially on a newly created weblog. On Cats WhoCode, I got 690 comments for 36 articles, so here’s some simple tips I had implemented on my blog for getting more comments.

ISIS Ads Management : New Wordpress Widget to Display&Manage 125*125 Ads

Recently i released a small widget for wordpress (Show125) which handle the 125*125 Ads, one of the most used format to show ads on blog.

But i was not satisfied of its user interface, That’s why i rethink the whole project !!! Here comes a new Widget To Manage and Show your 125*125 Ads : ISIS Ads Management.

How to : Make a control panel for your wordpress theme

Mimbo is one of the most used magazine theme for wordpress, it’s a great theme ! The only weakness is the way you change its options … Manually in the code …
It’s why i decided to create my own custom mimbo theme which includes a control panel. In this post I’m going to show you how you can create a control panel for your theme (in this example I will use mimbo).

How to: Get rid of the nofollow attribute on your Wordpress blog

Wordpress, like many other blog engines, uses the rel=”nofollow” attribute in comments for the so-called fight against spam. If this was a good idea, it is totally ineffective, and in addition, a link with this attribute will not receive any credit by Google when they rank websites. It is therefore clearly in the interest of bloggers to get rid of rel=”nofollow” attribute.