Frequently Asked Questions on Internet or Home Based Businesses.

This Q & A page contains links that answer your questions about doing business on the Internet.

A lot of these links will be from websites that I follow via RSS feeds.They include such sources as Lifehacker, Smashing magazine, Problogger, Terry Dean, Kingdom Geek, Rosalind Gardner and more.

Topics include my favorite tools and programs such as firefox, wordpress, website design, website traffic, and purpose in business.

In addition I’ve written articles with extended links to many of the questions you may encounter in your internet business journey.

A lot of the content won’t be original since I’m referring to other articles on the web. However I am manually adding the links to this page so that means I am not using any software that could be otherwise interpreted as spam.

l hope to update this page often so be sure and check back on a continual basis.

Hopefully you’ll find the answers to your questions, If not leave a comment with your question and I’ll do my best to find the answer for you.

Firefox

How can  I Sync Firefox Installations?

Life Hacker has a good post answering this question about an automated way to synchronize your Firefox installations between different computers.

Media for Photos, Video & Audio

Can you Suggest some Tools For Media?

Terry Dean has a great post on Royalty Free Photos and Videos. Be sure and read the comments and make your own for some extra tips.

Can You give me more Tips on different media subjects?

Digital Photography School has this article with 10 tips for photography students.

SEO-Search Engine Optimazation

How do I optimize my web page for maximum SEO benefits?

• I give some give tips on SEO at 15 Best SEO Plugins for Wordpress Blogs
  

• I found this post on the Problogger webiste. It’s an Search Engine Optimization Training  Video This 30 minute video presentation on SEO teaching was given by Stephan Spencer at a recent WordPress event.You can download the Powerpoint here: http://www.netconcepts.com/learn/seo-mistakes.ppt. Stephan also mentions an SEO Title Tag plugin which you can get here.You can also get a great little pdf download on SEO when you sign up for the Netconcepts newsletter plus there are a quite a bit of helpful SEO tips from Net Concepts at http://www.netconcepts.com/tag/seo+articles

• Problogger published an article on 13 ways to promote your blog when you’re making a post. I like the article, It includes social messaging and bookmarking among other things.

Software

Want to know what are some of the best free software resources?

Check out Terry Dean’s 21 Free Software Resources at http://www.terrydean.org/21-free-software-resources/

Social Marketing

How to Twitter?

Darren Rowse from ProBlogger answers many of your questions at his new  Twitter Tips Blog - TwiTip. I was one of the first to sign up to his blog. Be sure and look at this post for some great tools: What Twitter Tools and Services Do You Use?

Web Pages and Design

How do I Get Started With My Web Page Design?

Find out about Free and Low Cost Web Pages, Blogs, FTP’s and Html Editors and get your web page up in no time then check to be sure you dont make these “5 Website Mistakes Business Owners are Making”

How to use HTML?

Here’s a great video and an excellent course on web site creation and HTML that Fred Black gives away for free on his site.

Can you give me some good samples of an “About” page?

Check out About Kristarella, for a good example,  I especially like her read 100 things about me link.

How can I make my site more secure?

Try out these Security Tips & Tricks by Kingdom Geek

Wordpress

Do You Have Any Questions About Wordpress Blogs? For a limited time I’m answering them via the comments section of this post.

Wordpress Plugins

What are the best Wordpress Themes to Use?

• Thesis- This is the theme I’m using on this website/blog. It is easy to use, provides a lot of design options and already has a lot of SEO benefits built in.

• Revolution- I use this theme on my Fitness website at www.FitOnPurpose.com. This is an online Magazine type theme and is one of the very best on the Market. The owner, Brian Gardner will treat you very well.

• Ithemes is a whole Theme Club. Read my article on Ithemes.

• Woo Themes- A whole host of great themes to choose from

What are the best plugins for Wordpress?

• 15 Best SEO Plugins for Wordpress Blogs by Greg Nemer-After some extensive searching and trying out different plug-ins I came up with this list of the top 15 Best plug ins. If you are using your blog for internet marketing or as a CMS (Content Management System) website then you’re definitely going to want to add some effective plug-ins.

• This article by  Problogger on 10 Wordpress Plugins for new bloggers is very good (Compare their plugins to mine).

• Plugin Checks for Broken Links by Rosalind Gardner-Rosalind has put this plugin at the top of her list. Maybe you should too?