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There is nothing better than free advertising. You never know when you might run into someone at a store or in your travels that might be looking for what you sell. For example, lets say you made yourself a neat looking belt and you wear it while you are shopping at the mall. When people compliment on it, give them your card. If you sell things or offer a service, print up a couple of shirts with your business name and logo. Wear them when you go out. If someone asks for a price guide or catalog, keep a couple on hand in your pocket or purse so you can hand some out. Another neat thing you could do is order a custom magnet and attach it to the outside of your car along with your website address. If you are going some place where you don't want to advertise, simply remove it from your car and put it back on when you're done. I have tried some of these methods myself and have yielded some good results. You will get some business. What do you have to loose? (read more...)

If you do a lot of printing, you probably have to buy a lot of ink cartridges. I have been trying various generic cartridges throughout the years. After extensive searching, I came accross USA Ink Tank (now called Peach Tree). If you compare the cost of generic cartridges from other competitors, you will see a big difference. For example, an HP combo pack (3 black cartridges and 2 of each color) is only $28.99. That works out to $2.23 per cartridge. I have not come accross a better deal. I have been using Peach Tree for some years now and find them to be every bit as good as ones made by the original manufacturer. www.peachtreeink.com (read more...)

Wdwyl has just made some major modifications and additions. To begin, the home page now includes a site index. I have also added a classified ads section for those of you that wish to promote your business, look for work, sell products or more. I am happy to say the site is now looking more of what I had in mind. Thanks for reading. (read more...)

When adding a link to a post or page in Wordpress, you normally have to highlight the link then press the chain link icon to edit it so it will become clickable. In addition, you have to manually select "open in new window" under "target" in order to keep the reader on your website. After doing some research, I found 2 great plugins that automates this whole process... 1. Autolink URI - This plugin automatically recognizes a URL when typed within a post or page. Please note, you won't see the change until you click preview. If you don't click preview and choose to publish instead, it will show up as a hyperlink on the published page or post. 2. Open in New Window Plugin - All new post and page hyperlinks will automatically open in a new window, keeping your readers on your website. Note - This does not change any of your pre-existing pages or posts. You will have to manually go in and change the targets for all of those. To install these plugins in 3.0 and above, simply click on plugins within your Wordpress admin panel. Click on "add new" and search for the above names typed the exact same way. Click on install then activate. Because the plugins are java script, no other settings need to be made. (read more...)

If you are a serious blogger, you will want to know who is reading your posts on a regular basis. You may offer another service such as a newsletter, however, some people would rather read the information through their RSS feed. In order to find out who subscribed to your feed, you need to create a feed. The best way is to use Google's Feedburner service. Once signed up for this service, you can customize the way your feed displays. After your feed is created, you can log into your Google account and Feedburner will show up as one of your services. Once you click on Feedburner, it will take you to the main page of Feedburner and show all the users that have subscribed to your feed. Note for independent hosted Wordpress Users - In order for Google to effectivly track the subcriptions to your feed, you will need to install "feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.3" which will be listed after you create your feed. The plug in doesn't show up when you search within Wordpress. You will have to download the zip file then copy and paste the unzipped file to your desktop then upload to your plug-in folder through an FTP client (such as Filezilla). Go to your plug-in's folder within Wordpress and activate this plug in. Once activated, go to your settings (on the left hand side) and activate it. Once activated, under settings, enter the URL of your new feed and you're all set.  To set up your new feed, go to Google's set up page below...   http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=70001 To understand how RSS feeds work, see my article "Expand-your-website-exposure-through-rss-feeds." (read more...)