Today many people have the mindset of globalization and trying to captivate the entire world as their audience. When you are just starting off its good to have such big aspirations but by thinking like this, you may be overlooking one of the most powerful niche’s right at your fingertips. Your local community.

As a part of your regular blog maintenance routine remember to always check out your pages in multiple browsers. Often times everything will appear to be normal in one or most of the browsers however in another it looks completely defunct.

A high availability website: It’s all about expensive redundant hardware with top of the line load balancers and an enterprise class SAN, right? Well, not necessarily.

In the beginning I would use blog comments as a way to show my face and get potential clicks and this method worked fairly consistently. I would say something polite and informed about the content and use my Gravatar to get clicks, but I would never go back to see if I had any replies. However I was able to greatly increase the potential for commenting when I realized one thing.