If you’re anything like me you just finished upgrading your site or setting up a new site using Genesis and a Studio Press Pro child theme. In this case News Pro. And I suspect that this will apply to many new HTML5 sites as well. You fired up Windows Live Writer, told it to download […]
Firing Bluehost–How I Doubled My Site Speed Using AWS and Other FREE Services
After over two years with Bluehost a very sad thing had happened to me and I didn’t even know it. I lowered my expectations of webhosting. It happened slowly, a gradual change that I didn’t even notice until one day this site taking 10-15 seconds to load was normal. Even worse, I almost let my […]
How to Get Moving with WordPress
A couple times a month or so I get an email or a message from someone interested in building with WordPress. They ask some similar questions and I thought I’d add it to our library here at freewheelings. I’m not going to try and sell you anything here. There won’t even be a single affiliate […]
Preparing Your Computer for Travel
I think most of the world now travels with their personal computing devices. Traveling to and through Mexico, Central America and South America significantly increases your chances of loss or theft. There are things that you can do to protect your information and your identity should this occur. I think just about everyone’s computer contains […]
What are Travel Bloggers Talking About?
This is a tag cloud generated off of the RSS Feeds of 71 Lonely Planet blogsherpa travel bloggers. I went through and removed as many of the common words as I could to clean it up. These keywords are generated from the posts in my consolidated travel blogger RSS feed bundle Monday through Wednesday of […]
Five Things Japan has Taught Me About Blogging and Social Media
Let me first start by saying that my heart goes out to everyone in Japan this week. It’s going to be a long way from your current situation to the stability of economy and Country you are used to. I’ve put the Red Cross donation banner up here on freewheelings and I hope if you’re […]
SEO for Travel Bloggers – Building a Link Wheel
This is part 4 in my series on SEO for Travel Bloggers. If you’re just arriving you might want to wander over to the first part of this series Crafting Keyword Specific Posts as the topic here will build on this article and the subsequent articles in the series. I covered some of the platforms […]
Travel Blogger RSS Feed Bundle
I’ve gone through and organized all of my RSS feeds in Google Reader and created a bundle of Travel Blogger Feeds. Most of these guys are from the Lonely Planet blogsherpa group which I am as well a member of. This is great way to find new and interesting articles from around the world and […]
10 Tech Tips For Travelers and Bloggers – How Not to Get Hacked
Do you travel with you laptop? Do you blog from your laptop while traveling? My background is very technical and it’s time to expand my tech section for travelers. What I’m a bout to tell you may come as a shock. Are you using a windows based laptop computer? I can break your Windows password in […]
SEO for Travel Bloggers – Basic Link Building Ideas
I hopped on a Salmon boat in Alaska for four months in the middle of this series and lost track of it. Sorry about that. If you’re just finding this article you might want to wander over to Part 1: SEO for Travel Bloggers – Crafting Keyword Specific Posts and start from the beginning as […]