Many mobile phones don’t display web content in an easy-to-access format, yet many users of the web only have Internet access through their phones. As people are beginning to bundle technology services and phones are becoming smarter, that number will only grow. Today’s techie tip will show you how you can create a mobile phone friendly link to your blog’s feed that you can add to your site’s navigation menu. This format will also load very quickly on most mobile phones, and this hack takes only minutes to complete.

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In order to build relationships with your readers, communication is vital. Unfortunately, placing a live-link email address into your blog is an open invitation for spammers to invade your in-box. A good alternative is the addition of a contact form page. While the form may not appear as personal as a direct email message, it actually goes directly into your email in-box and you can respond to the sender directly from your email platform.

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I’ve been promoting self-hosted WordPress blogs a lot on this blog because I truly believe it’s the best platform for anyone who is serious about blogging. Now I’ve had several readers contact me to ask how one goes about moving a blog from Blogger to WordPress, so I’ve promised to provide a tutorial with step-by-step instructions on how to do that.

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There’s nothing more frustrating than losing data. Especially when you have no way to retrieve it. That’s why I use and recommend the WordPress Database Backup plugin. Once installed and activated, this plugin will show up in your Dashboard sidebar under the Tools heading. From there you can select which files you wish to save and how often. You can also select what you want the plugin to do with your database backup. I have mine emailed to me to my Gmail address so I can access it from any computer.

How can you lose data on a server-based blog, such as WordPress?

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It doesn’t matter how cool your 404 page looks, clicking on a link that leads to nowhere irritates readers. And it confuses search bots, which can affect your search engine rankings. But if you’ve been blogging a while, it could take you days to check all the links within your blog.

So, what’s a blogger to do?

Today’s Techie Tip offers a solution to finding and repairing those broken links — and that solution takes a matter of minutes.

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