If you are a freelance writer, designer or consultant, you’ll certainly get involved in projects where you need to bill your clients by the hour. But how do you track your time accurately so that both you and your client will be happy? There are several solutions available (both free and paid) which help you with this task. For example, if you are using Firefox or Google Chrome you’ll certainly find extensions that do it. The problem with most of those solutions, though, is that require you to

After Groupon’s success thousands of collective shopping websites and deal aggregators appeared online, and every single niche you can imagine. What about Internet marketing and web design? Yep, that’s covered as well. The most popular deal aggregator on this niche is called MightyDeals.com, and they offer items like ebooks, templates and scrips with discounts up to 90%. I was talking with the owner of the site last week and he said he would be glad to give away 10 items for DBT readers. In

I receive around 20 guest post submissions per week. Usually I let them pile up and once a month I go through all of them, replying to the ones I think would be a good fit for the blog. There are two types of submissions I discard right away, though, without even taking a look. I also consider those the two biggest mistakes you can make while trying to guest post on some blog. They are: If by opening your email I see something like “Dear Sir” or “Dear Blog Owner” I’ll send it

You probably already heard about SOPA/PIPA and the whole debate around it, right? Last Wednesday it was a really interesting day on the Internet, probably representing the biggest online activism movement ever, with all major online companies and websites protesting against the bills. The movement was pretty successful, with many senators reversing their stance on the SOPA/PIPA bills, and making it much harder to get them approved now (i.e., the Internet folks won the first battle of the war). The day

One of the reasons that a good work of fiction captures our hearts and minds is that it has found a winning formula — one that, despite various tinkering and experiments, is fairly straightforward in its format. Understanding and borrowing from this format can help you generate good, interesting blog content. Fiction Plot Structure Nearly all fiction, except the occasional experimental types, follows the same basic pattern: 1 – Status Quo This is how things are, the basic explanation of the current

If you visit the English Wikipedia right now (or within some hours) you’ll probably see a lot of black. No need to panic though, it’s a schedule protest against the SOPA and PIPA bills that are being promoted in the US. Here’s the description from their announcement: Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia

Over the past year I have moved a reasonable number of WordPress sites between different servers and hosting companies (around 10), and I picked up some tips and tricks along the way. First of if you search around the web for advice on how to move a WordPress blog you’ll probably get a recommendation to backup all the site files and databases, transfer the site files, and then restore the database on the other server. While this works, I think it’s unnecessarily complicated, especially if you

Every time I publish one of the AdSense Profits interview I get a bunch of emails asking when the course will re-open. I am glad to say I have a date already: February 14 (second Tuesday of February). I’ll be giving more details about the course along the way, so stay tuned. Today’s interview is with Adrian Roman, who owns How-to-Hide-IP.info. As the name implies his blog is all about learning how to hide your IP address as well as how to protect your privacy online. It’s a perfect

The WordPress engine is pretty efficient out of the box, but once you start loading plugins the performance and responsiveness of your site might go downhill. On top of that the consumption of resources might become too big, possibly leading to a suspension of your hosting account (especially if you use shared hosting). Over the years I played with and tweaked my WordPress plugins trying to achieve a good performance level, and below you’ll find the tips I learned along the way: Serving cached