http://www.bradleykelly.com Just getting started... Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:34:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Be sure to check out part 1 here. Well, it worked for a while. Here are some lessons I learned from implementing part 1 of the experiment. Lesson 1: Don't Break Your Crossposter I was using a crossposting plugin to re-post t-shirt's blogs onto the myspace blog, but there was a nasty drug-interaction ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/02/17/use-myspace-to-boost-traffic-an-experiment-pt2/ Last year I thought I'd give Office Live a try because it integrated with the Microsoft Accounting 2007 package that I use. Office Live includes a free domain, but a woefully inadequate...well, everything else. After a quick Google search I came up with this article where I found what to ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/02/09/free-domains-at-office-live-and-moving-them-to-your-own-host/ If you have a blog or website and aren't using Google Analytics, you should check it out. There are equivalent services out there but there are a couple compelling reasons to try Analytics. Detailed There's so much information available on your traffic patterns, it's crazy. You can easily see where everyone's coming ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/02/07/google-analytics/ Always practice what you preach, right? I was making a "simple" change to t-shirt live yesterday, just swapping out one ad block for another. I finished my change and notice the site was broken badly in IE, but not Firefox. "No big deal" I thought to myself. After undoing the ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/02/04/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-simple-change/ Today I created a MySpace profile for tshirtreviewblog.com. There's no doubt that there's a lot of traffic to be had with MySpace. Plenty of bands don't even have actual websites anymore, relying solely on the incestual sort of traffic you find on MySpace. I've had a personal profile forever since that's ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/02/03/use-myspace-to-boost-traffic-an-experiment-pt1/ Today feels like Friday to me, and not in a good way. More like a this-week-is-one-day-longer-than-it-should-be sort of way. Oh well. I was hoping to have the primary Brad Kelly Enterprises domain moved off of the old host and over to DreamHost by today, but I never really got around ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/01/31/miscellaneous-ramblings/ I was actually surprised at how painless and quick this was. Over my lunch break, I searched for promo codes/coupons for Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft AdCenter, and signed up for each. I created some keyword lists (need to be tweaked obviously) and an ad for each. I ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/01/28/adventures-in-ppc-advertising-account-setup/ This past weekend was the most unproductive I've been since the holidays. It's not like I had nothing to do either, I just had a hard time staying focused. I did manage to experiment with a few different plugins though, one of which temporarily broke the Wordpress. I thought it'd ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/01/28/wordpress-test-environments/ With the explosion of new blogs online in the last few years, it's been easy to overlook the pivotal role forums have played in the development of the web as we know it today. The evolution of the message board is a fascinating story in and of itself. I have experience in ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/01/25/managing-online-communities-and-writing-books/ Does anyone else find the post-dating feature of Wordpress especially useful? I regularly set posts to publish at a later time, and I think it's a good way to exercise a greater level of control over the user experience and provide consistency to your readers. On a standard Wordpress installation (I'm ... http://www.bradleykelly.com/2008/01/23/writing-blog-content-in-advance/