Website In A Weekend Guest Writers

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Website In A Weekend relies on guest writers to provide both depth and breadth.

A Website In A Weekend guest writer contributes his or her unique point of view. Topics range from adventures in SEO, the trials and tribulations of just starting out, to deeper, more complex subjects in WordPress customization.

Each person is listed in order of appearance:

Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri is a professional writer with over twenty years’ experience in technical writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Holly blogs at It’s All a Matter of Perspective: Mine (http://jahangiri.us/news)

Here’s Holly’s guest article for September 23, 2009: Do-It-Yourself SEO Using Microsoft’s Bing Toolkit: Bing SEO toolkit provides a surprising amount of advanced data in a form easy to understand and act upon for getting better search engine results.

Josh Kohlbach

Josh Kohlbach, is a professional freelance programmer and web designer based in Brisbane, Australia. Josh’s blog Code My Own Road is packed with small business tips and technical tutorials for Do-It-Yourself entrepreneurs.

Josh has three articles published:

1. October 12, 2009 found Josh’s WordPress Gotcha! Find Out If Your RSS Feed is Helping or Hurting. Is your WordPress RSS feed giving you some trouble? Take a few minutes to make sure you it under control… Josh Kohlbach shows you exactly how to do it.
2. December 7, 2009: Playing The Host: A Quick Intro to Wordpress MU. Josh Kohlbach nails it again with fresh content, information about WordPress MU that’s hard to find anywhere on the web. Find out if WordPress MU will help you.
3. March 15, 2010: A Simple Guide To Wordpress Theme Installation. Installing a theme in WordPress is extremely simple, and Josh Kohlbach takes you through it one step at a time. Read more in this short, easy article.

Find Josh on Twitter: @jkohlbach.

Larry Herrin

Larry Herrin is a consultant, author and web entrepreneur. One of his eCommerce websites sells Palm Pre accessories He has owned and used three different Palm/Handspring smartphones since 2001. He is hopelessly addicted.

On October 19, 2009 Larry contributed the Top 10 Reasons why WordPress is the Future of the Internet. WordPress is just about ready to rule the internet. Here’s 10 reasons why you should use WordPress for your next small business (or personal) website.

Sean “Deacon” Neprud

Sean Neprud operates Bad Deacon Design under the moniker Deacon (surprise!), where he works in a range of mediums from wood block to web design.

Sean has four articles published on Website In A Weekend:

1. October 19, 2009: Blog World Expo Recap: Blogging Success Requires Passion and a Lot of Writing: Do you have what it takes to be Pro Blogger? Passion isn’t quite enough… find out 3 more keys to success in this report from Blog World Expo.
2. October 20, 2009: Blog World Expo Recap: 8 Proven Monetization Strategies For Media Producers: Wanna make money blogging & don’t know how? Here’s 8 ways proven by 6 figure probloggers to just Kill It on the internet. You need to know these tricks – now.
3. October 26, 2009: WordPress Architecture – The Building Blocks of Web Publishing: If you have ever wondered how WordPress does it’s magic, it’s all right here in this short article. Deacon breaks it down in simple, easy to understand words.
4. December 14, 2009: Blog World Recap: How to Attract a Large and Loyal Audience. Deacon writes final report from Blog World Expo: how to get and keep critical influence as a blogger – you need this information if you didn’t get to Blog World.

Follow Sean on twitter: @baddeacon.

Gabe Young

Gabe Young is a business professional with an entrepreneurial spirit. Gabe has an MBA and managed IT departments in the Fortune 500, creating strategies and tactics for some of the most popular websites. Visit Gabe at Free Blog Help dot Com.

On November 2, 2009, Gabe gave us the Top 5 Biggest Lies About Blogging for Money. Some people make a lot of money blogging, you could be one of them, just done believe the hype! Read more to make sure you aren’t falling into these 5 traps.

Andrew Caldwell

Andrew Caldwell – Self proclaimed leader of the free world, recently embarked on a quarter life crisis and has resigned from the employed working world. Recently started leadersofthefreeworld.org, giving you an insight into the mind of the free, cynical, entrepreneurial and passionate.

November 9, 2009: I’ve Just Wasted $53 on Hosting and a Domain, s***, What Now? HELP!?: You really can create your own self-hosted WordPress blog, Andrew lays it all out: the fear, the loathing, the thrill of success!

Blake Waddill

Guest author Blake Waddill is “leveraging” his education in Chemistry at Props Blog dot Com; resources and reviews site with addicted gamer twists. When he isn’t blogging, he’s hanging out with his wife and 3 year old step son or cheering for the Mavs and the Patriots.

November 16, 2009: DIY WordPress: 3 Reasons You Should Learn To Code: WordPress coding isn’t for everyone… but it might be for you! If you’ve ever wondered – or just need an excuse to start – Blake Waddill gives you the scoop.

Find Blake on Twitter: @propsblog.

Clicking Chick

The Clicking Chick rules the PPC world! CC has worked in online marketing departments for well-known brands. CC is adept at both writing and number-crunching; PPC uses both those skills. The Chicking Chick blog helps business owners succeed with PPC campaigns.

November 23, 2009: Stop It! Three Things to Stop Doing In Your PPC Campaign. If you aren’t getting great results in your PPC campaign, the Clicking Chick will set you straight. You owe it to yourself: save money, increase profit.

Kip Praslowicz

Kip Praslowicz has spend the past five years doing web development within the powersports industry. During his free time he is a film photography advocate, and is currently working in the discipline of night photography.

November 30, 2009: DIY WordPress: Creating Sidebars On-the-Fly in WordPress. Custom sidebars demystified! Kip Praslowicz reveals killer technique for custom “programming without programming.” Faster, better design: less money!

Walter Yu

Walter Yu is a practicing civil engineer… a professional engineer, in fact, licensed to practice engineering in the State of California. Walter also has a passion for technology and social media. I think you’ll agree Walter is also a damn good writer as well.

December 21, 2009: 7 Tips for Producing Snackable, Factual Content. Writing “snackable” content – short, interesting blog posts – effectively engages readers and increases traffic. Here’s 7 easy tips for writing snackables.

William Muncrief

William Muncrief spent most of his life as a millwright & building contractor. In 2006, William tackled internet marketing to sell chainsaw sculptures, and was quickly sucked into the world of web design. Visit his company Logisitics Studios.

January 4, 2010: Where Good Design Begins: Getting to know your customer. Take your time before starting with a customer to learn who they are and what they need. William Muncrief has some excellent tips for getting you started.

Mr. John

Mr. John is far from a media mogul but he does write on his weight loss blog and occasionally about making a secondary income online.

January 11, 2009: Search Your Blog Network With Google Custom Search. Once you have several blogs, you need Google Custom search to find articles in your network, and direct readers within your network. See how easy it is.

Valentina Bellicova

Valentina Bellicova builds on her years of experience in Corporate America to succeed as a professional speaker, author and internet marketer. At age 15, she pitched her first article, obtaining a weekly column for the Daily Mainichi Newspaper in Tokyo. Visit Valentina: Blog Income Life.

1. January 18, 2010: MasterMind Power I: Power of the MasterMind. Read how 5 small town boys achieved unparalleled success by masterminding. If they can do it, you can too. First of a 4 part series, don’t miss any of them.
2. January 20, 2010: MasterMind Power II: The Power of the MasterMind – Part II. Here’s 7 critical principles for growing your MasterMind Power, principles which will return your investment many-fold. Take the time to read and learn.
3. January 25, 2010: MasterMind Power III: W5 Of a Successful Mastermind Group – Part III. Find out the Who, What, Why, Where & When of creating powerful MasterMind groups, and why other MasterMind groups fail. You can succeed, read how easy it is.
4. January 27, 2010: MasterMind Power IV: he Power of the MasterMind – Part IV: Some MasterMind Examples. MasterMind groups can be formed for developing expertise and mastery for a wide range of topics. Check out these examples. Can you add to this list? Please do!

Gordie Rogers

Gordie Rogers is the founder and editor in chief of Lifestyle Design For You. Gordie came to Tianjin to teach English in February 2003 after teaching for a year in Korea. He plans to retire from teaching in June 2010 and move back to New Zealand to start his own business.

• February 1, 2010: How Moderating Comments On Your Blog Destroys Conversation. Are you making it difficult for people to comment on your blog? Inspiring discussion requires making it easy for people to participate; Gordie tells you how.

Carlos Velez

Carlos Velez is a writer with a full-time job on the side (for now!). He blogs about achieving goals and making change. Carlos’ blog, Conscious Me, allows readers to not only observe a journey to success in progress, but to participate and grow themselves.

1. February 8, 2010: Pre-Writing Is Your Friend – With Benefits (Part 1). Carlos Velez shares critically important experience for beginning – and experienced – bloggers: 7 vital benefits for writing well in advance of publishing.
2. February 10, 2010: Pre-Writing Is Your Friend – With Benefits (Part 2). Carlos Velez gives you 5 excellent reasons to develop a stash of blog posts you can use at a moment’s notice, and 5 easy ways to get your stash written.

Julie Angelos

Writing since she found a crayon in her hand, Julie is currently working as a Special Aids and English teacher at two Middle Schools in Italy. She has lived in Italy for more than 15 years, is married, has two young children and writes JBulie’s Blog.

• February 22, 2010: How Julie Became Successful Without Even Trying. Our friends and loved ones support us. Out teachers inspire and challenge. Read Julie’s challenge & how she developed habits of success with love of learning.
• February 24, 2010: How Julie Became a Published Writer (And you can, too). Your love of writing is a critical factor in being successfully published. Read how it happened for Julie. It can happen for you as well.

What about you?

Would you like to be a guest writer on Website In A Weekend? It’s pretty easy. Just shoot me an email and explain what you have in mind. If we can make it fit, you get the next available Monday!

The guest post guidelines are pretty simple: As long as you write more or less about WordPress, we can probably fit it in.