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WordPress Plugins

Tweet I’m seeing more and more that using blogging software like WordPress to create and manage certain types of websites is a great idea. It isn’t right for a 10,000 page ecommerce site of course but rapidly putting up a niche information site as a blog works quite well. Especially if a few plugins are […]

SEO for Blogs and Forums

Tweet The Working Nomad had an interesting discussion about search engine optimization (SEO) for that forum. In summary, search engines, especially Google it sounds like, don’t rank blogs and forums highly because they have so much duplicate content. It’s possible to reach the same page from the homepage, categories, and archives for example. It had […]

Sales Tax

Tweet I called the state comptroller’s office to ask about the taxpayer id number for our LLC. We talked some about whether a sales tax permit is required. The rules are really complex and full of gray areas for when internet businesses need to collect a sales tax. It’s going to take several readings and […]

WordPress Themes

Tweet Maybe it’s me but it seems really hard to find a WordPress theme I like. I’m making minor modifications to some for Niche Site 1 but it just doesn’t look right to me. I read a post on The Working Nomad saying good theme creators charged around $1000 per theme. 47

LLC Formation

Tweet All of the paperwork for forming our Limited Liability Company (LLC) went through. Now we need to get a tax id number to open a merchant account at a bank. After reading through some of the tax requirements, we’re definitely going to use an accountant. It’s spread out and confusing. 47