Stuff you should not do

Don't Throw Money at Your Online Marketing Program
Earlier this week, I ran into an attorney friend of mine who owns a thriving personal injury practice in the Atlanta area. He told me that he was in negotiation with a "pay per click" (PPC) management firm and that he planned on testing PPC to attract personal injury cases. He would be testing this tool to the tune of $3,000 per month for a minimum of three months. What did I think of this? (…)

How to Deal With 10,000 Unmoderated Spam Comments in WordPress
Comment spam can take a lot of the enjoyment out of blogging. Comment spammers operate in the same manner as email spammers - they use automated scripts to disperse their wares. Comment spammers use the comment capability of most blogs to distribute links to their web sites. If your blog has the "no_follow" attribute of comments disabled, then you may be unwittingly providing the comment spammers with some of your "link juice."
At a minimum, every blogger should enable the moderation feature for all blog comments. If your comments are unmoderated, you will soon see hundreds, if not thousands of irrelevant, spammy, link-filled comments on your blog posts. (…)

Expert Blogging Tips - How to Deal with Stolen Content
Lorelle VanFossen publishes a very readable and useful blog about WordPress and blogging in general called Lorelle on Wordpress. Lorelle recently attended a WordPress event in Israel and she has published a helpful post containing tips and suggestions about how to get the most out of Wordpress. I recommend this post to all bloggers - new or experienced. (…)

My House Was Hit by Lightening and I Lost….
About a month ago, my house was hit by lightening. The lightening strike was a direct hit - we ended up with a hold in the roof and water damage in the ceiling. The strike also blew out most of my electronics - including televisions, stereo receivers, my garage door, my alarm system, the cable box and the DSL modem. I also lost my desktop computer - the one with all of my digital photos, videos and personal financial information. (…)

Another Reason to Backup Your Data
We all hear warnings about data loss and the need to backup. Fortunately, I have never experienced a catastrophic loss. However, noted affiliate marketer Chris Carpenter recently did experience a complete loss of both his laptop and both of his external backup drives. Chris used two external backup drives for redundancy in case one of them failed, but he did not plan for a fire. (…)