Richard Cummings

A Career in Technical Training: Is It For You?

Not everyone is cut out to be a great technical trainer. In fact, the industry is littered with sub-par technical trainers who do little more than recite text from a book. The industry needs great trainers, but is it a career that is right for you? There are two characteristics that make someone a great technical [...]

17. September 2009

SEO: The Seven Deadly Sins

SEO seems relatively easy at first, but danger lurks around every corner. One false step--one SEO mistake--and all of your SEO work vanishes into a de-indexing or the dreaded Google sandbox. Early Christians defined the Seven Deadly Sins that one should not commit lest they burn in the fiery pits of hell. In this article, we’ll explore the Seven Deadly Sins of Search Engine Optimization.

SEO and Golf: They Both Look Easy…Until You Try Them

10. September 2009

SEO and Golf: They Both Look Easy…Until You Try Them

SEO is a lot like golf. It appears easy at first, until you start to play the game.

29. August 2010

Convert MyISAM to INNODB using phpMyAdmin

This is a technical post on how to convert from MyISAM to InnoDB using phpMyAdmin. Yesterday, I was using phpMyAdmin to set up database tables in MySQL. The solution that I was implementing called for me to use foreign keys to relate the tables to one another. Well, foreign keys require the use of [...]

29. August 2010

The Used Table Type Doesn’t Support FULLTEXT Indexes

This is a technical post for those who are receiving the message “The Used Table Type Doesn’t Support FULLTEXT Indexes” in phpMyAdmin.” I received this message as I was trying to convert a MySQL table from MyISAM to InnoDB in phpMyAdmin. I was converting this MySQL table from MyISAM to InnoDB so that I could [...]

27. May 2010

WordPress: How To Order WordPress Categories

When you begin using WordPress, you realize that it can be fairly easy to setup a website quickly. However, when you wish to customize your WordPress, it is then that you can run into many problems. One of the problems that many people run into with WordPress is the order of their categories. In this article, I will tell you how to arrange your WordPress categories using the WordPress “My Category Order” plugin.

27. May 2010

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Thinking Tangentially: How To Succeed Online In a Competitive Environment

When individuals or companies are trying to succeed online in the face of heavy competition, they often do one of two things: They either give up or they employ the same strategies as their competitors. In this article, we take a look at a concept called tangential thinking, which will enable you to succeed in competitive markets that offer great returns.

20. May 2010

Project Management: Creating Self-Managed Employees

In this article, I am going to talk about to create self-managed employees. We will look how to motivate employees to get the job done by having the employees tell you what they are going to get done.

13. May 2010

How To Show WordPress Category IDs

Learn how to show WordPress Category IDs so that you can customize your WordPress Categories and catapult them to the top of the search rankings.

13. May 2010

How To Redirect Web Image Results To Web Page

In this article, we will take a quick look at how to redirect Google search image results to the actual web page that hosts the image. Occasionally, there are those little things that you can do which yield large results. This is one of them--take advantage of it!

13. May 2010

Making Money Online With Commission Junction

Commission Junction offers a great affiliate program enabling you to make money online but some of its operations are quite a mystery. In this article, we will take a look at how to make money with Commission Junction, why many advertisers deny your application, and what you can do about it.

6. May 2010

MONEYMAKERINFO.BLOGSPOT.COM: Blogger Account Disabled Then Re-enabled Causes Frenzy

For those in the making money online game, this has been an eventful couple of weeks with the Google Blogger team disabling the number one "Make Money Online" blog, http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/, then mysteriously re-enabling it about one week later.

6. May 2010

Technical Project Management: Should Technical Project Managers Be Technical?

This is a question that challenges many technical consulting companies: Should technical project managers be technical? In other words, if you are managing a technology project, do you need to be well-versed in the technologies of the project or do you just need to be a great project manager?

22. April 2010

Web Authentication Using PHP and MySql

There have been many occasions in which I have had to setup Web Authentication for websites or particular web pages. In this article, I will tell you how I set up web authentication using PHP and MySql and where the real power lies in this technology.

22. April 2010

Technical Training: How To Engage the Class from Day 1

As I wrote in A Career in Technical Training, many technical trainers do little more than recite what you can easily read in the text book. In this article, we will take a look at how you can create an engaging technical training class from day one.

15. April 2010

SEO Smackdown Video: Your Fellow Professionals Discuss Their Trade

A few months ago, I watched this SEO Smackdown Video which I thought those of you involved in SEO may enjoy. The panel of four discuss the SEO issues of the day including some suggesting that you need practically ZERO SEO.

15. April 2010

SEO: Keyword Competitive Analysis

If you want to create a web page that will generate traffic, you need to do so using popular keyword search terms. However, the more “popular” that a keyword is, the more keyword competition you are going to have. In this article, we will take a look at how you can analyze the competition for a keyword and whether it is worth the effort to try to place for that keyword.

8. April 2010

Ranking Your Name in Google

In this article, I will illustrate how to rank your name in Google so that your name shows up on the first page of the Google rankings. Ideally, over time, you can rank number one for a Google search on yourname but if you happen to have a name such as George Clooney, the top 10 may be your best hope.

24. September 2009

SEO: Error Traffic Control

If you want to build immediate traffic to your website, there is one sure fire way to accomplish this, but it’s filled with errors.

24. September 2009

SEO: Creative Keyword Strategies

If you have done your proper SEO keyword research, you will have selected keywords to use with some frequency in your articles. But did you choose the right keywords? And, importantly, how will you use these selected keywords as anchor text? In this article, we will look at creative keyword choices and [...]

17. September 2009

Chitika Review: A Viable AdSense Alternative

In this Chitika Review, we will take a look at how Chitika works, the results Chitika achieves, and why it is a viable alternative to AdSense. AdSense Alternatives: Why? About three months ago, I decided to give other advertising programs a try as alternatives to AdSense. I did this because I had some sites that [...]

10. September 2009