Google Search Console – the new name for Google Webmaster Tools

New Category/Feature on How to Blog: Readers Write In

I frequently receive email from readers of How to Blog, sometimes thanking me and other times with blogging questions that they have which they hope that I can answer. In many of the latter cases, I am able to answer their questions and get them back happily blogging. But there are times when I just […]

WordPress upgrade renders a reader’s post slugs unchangable and permalinks stuck in default format despite custom settings

Can you help my reader, Steven, who wrote in to me with the following problem? I have recently upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1 from 2.6. I was creating pages with wp 2.6. Underneath the post title was displayed the “url” or permalink, and I could edit and customize it any way I liked. Now with wp […]

Save the Internet from Mob 2.0 (ISPs slowing down the loading of websites that don’t pay them protection fees)

Hi Everyone – THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR BLOGGERS (and all users of the internet) Please read the following and sign the petition to preserve Network Neutrality Do you blog, buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week […]

TypePad is essentially holding my old URL hostage by refusing to set up 301 permanent redirects to my new blog location

I have been having some seriously frustrating conversations with the tech support people over at Six Apart. I’m hoping that they will eventually do right by me, but as it stands right now I’m ready to pull my hair out. TypePad currently does not support 301 permanent redirects, or any modifications at all to the […]