William Charlwood

WordPress blogs are great in some respects but setting one up so that it looks appealing, delivers SEO benefits and gives you the navigation controls you need is a bit taxing because you need to go into all the code. And then it can go horribly wrong.

There’s someone I know who’s been down that route, got fed-up and made all the mistakes you can before eventually ending up with a blog that looks first class. She then did the logical thing: she re-traced her steps and documented what she did to go from horrible to sublime but this time without making all the howlers in the middle.

And it’s now available as an ebook.

Take a look at the site she created and compare it to the standard WordPress theme and you’ll see why this ebook is excellent value if you want your WordPress blog to look professional.

A few days back I mentioned Yuwie to a couple of my emailing lists. At that time Yuwie’s Alexa ranking was around 15,000.

Yesterday it was 4,164 which is very impressive and of course it gets harder to improve the smaller the number is because what Alexa does is provide you with one measure about the popularity of a site. 4,164 means that only 4,163 sites were more popular yesterday according to the measurement algorithm that Alexa uses.

The Great Yuwie Mystery though is whether this is just a flash in the pan - something that will turn out to have been a passing phenomenon - or whether there is genuine longevity in the site.

Rather to my surprise I’ve see that today I have 489 people who have signed up under my account. Theoretically this could make me a bit of cash but it will be a while before I see anything. Yuwie pays out money to people who recruit new Yuwie members but with one big difference from most MLM type “offers”: in this case, you don’t have to pay anything to join.