7 Blog Posts That Will Transform Your Life

Posted on January 19, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot38 Vibrant Responses

Every day we’re bombarded with blog articles. Right now as I look in Google Reader, I see that I have over 400 unread blog posts from sites that I highly respect. But many of these I’ll only skim through as I search out the ones that really hold the most value for me.…

The 15 Best Wordpress Plugins to Use in 2010

Posted on January 18, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot280 Vibrant Responses

One of the reasons that I’m so madly in love with WordPress is the thousands of plugins available. It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish on your blog, there’s probably a plugin that will allow you to do it.
This list is the 15 most incredible WordPress plugins. Only the best plugins have made…

7 Tips to Sharing Highly Effective Comments

Posted on January 15, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot45 Vibrant Responses

Comments are the life blood of a successful blog. They are the evidence of a thriving, robust online community.
Comments are great for you and your website, but there are a lot of principles that many bloggers fail to understand when sharing comments on other sites. If you forget about these concepts then…

A Recipe to Enhance Your Article Footers

Posted on January 14, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot30 Vibrant Responses

If you like the author information at the bottom of this post then you’ll love today’s article.  The following code will provide you with the ability to show off the avatar, the biography and the post count of the author of each article on your site.
I’m sure many of you may not be familiar…

How to Effectively Recycle Old Blog Posts

Posted on January 13, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot60 Vibrant Responses

If you really want to build content on your site that’s worth visiting then you need to learn the art of writing articles that are timeless in nature. In other words, it’s acceptable to write about things that are taking place this week, but visitors six months from now are going to click away immediately…

8 Awesome & Creative Free WordPress Themes

Posted on January 12, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot42 Vibrant Responses

If you want to stand out in the world of blogging then you’ve really got to have a site that looks amazing.  We live in a world that ignores amazing content if it doesn’t look amazing.
Even if you consistently write award winning content that won’t guarantee that people will read it. If someone lands…

Maximizing the SEO Quality of Your Links

Posted on January 11, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot55 Vibrant Responses

Links make the internet go around.  They’re the roadways that guide us to new sites, to new resources, and to new opportunities to engage, interact and learn.
But we’re not the only ones who draw guidance from the many links scattered around the net.  Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing rely…

Featuring Your Blog’s Guest Authors

Posted on January 10, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot19 Vibrant Responses

Sketch Bookmarks WordPress Plugin

Posted on January 9, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot44 Vibrant Responses

I’m very pleased to announce the immediate release of my very first WordPress plugin.
This plugin contains amazing looking, sketched icons for only the top social bookmarking sites.
Quit confusing your readers with dozens of bookmarking options and start to really go after those bookmarking sites that are actually getting used with these amazing looking…

Goals and Resolutions Winner Announced

Posted on January 8, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot23 Vibrant Responses

On Monday’s article titled Goals and Resolutions for the New Year, I offered $20 to be awarded to a random person that would leave a comment on that article.  Since that day, we had 81 comments come in and some great goals were expressed.
Today and I’m…