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Where does the time go?

Seems like just last week I was writing one of these Reviews…

News of the week

First, on Monday Josh Kohlbach published the second guest post on Website In A Weekend. Mondays are a great day for guest posting! So good in fact that Larry Herrin has next Monday’s slot filled with an excellent article on WordPress. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

So,

How hard does Decompression rock…? Ask Google. Here, I’ll do it for you: search Google for “decompression.”

Decompression owns itself on Google.

That’s how hard Decompression rocks!

How cool is that!

My ears are still ringing. Ok, that might be from caffeine poisoning, but it was still a blast. Couldn’t even tell you how many DJs showed up. A lot. And some bands too, like Drinking With Bukowski. I love seeing local talent, and we have a lot of it here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I didn’t make it over to Opulent Temple, probably won’t hear about that until tomorrow (I’m writing this on Monday 12 October, gotta love the Drafts queue!).

This past week saw an unusual Sunday blog post. Sunday is a day off for Website In A Weekend, but celebrating the arrival of the first disgruntled reader absolutely required an article of it’s own. Rather than horn into the already scheduled guest post on Monday, we let it fly on Sunday. I did what I thought was a very nice email to said person offering to help them find what they were looking for, but I never heard anything back. So much passion! I would rather have that energy working for than against, it costs very little to reach out.

New posts

Here’s what we have for you this week past. If you missed anything, check it out:

• Suck readers in from RSS and SERPs — Dig Deeper Into Subtitles: Do you know both reasons why killer subtitles help drive traffic to your web site? And why a title isn’t enough. Most people miss out, don’t you be one.
• Website In A Weekend Has Arrived! First Hater Comes and Goes!: One measure of success is by how many enemies you make, just by showing up. Website In A Weekend is proud to announce it’s first measure of success. Read on!
• 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.
• Practical WordPress Tip #16: Create Template Blog Posts With Common Structure: See how easy it is to create an article template for cranking out blogs posts quickly, accurately and easily. There’s even a WordPress plugin!
• WordPress Gotcha! Don’t “Please Try Again” when “Save Draft” fails: Sometimes, the built-in WordPress tools have a little hiccup. Here’s one way to help preserve any work you have locked into the editor when it loses itself.
• 9 Ways to Make Your Guest Post Editor Love You: You just got invited to write as a guest on your favorite blog! Here’s 9 things your editor needs… get these right, score another invitation.

Updated posts

Nothing this week. You got an extra article (Sunday) instead!

Articles from the Archives!

Each week, we’ll showcase a great post buried down in the archives, useful material you can use right away. This week, check out How To Implement “Publish, then polish” For Fast Blog Posts. I’ve seen similar material published by Big Name Bloggers in the last couple of months, but nothing in as much detail as I provide here. I’d like to think I was first out of the gate, but I’ve been around long enough to know that really good ideas have a habit of springing up all over the place, at about the same time.

The upshot is that this article will help you write for both readers and search engines.

Upcoming

Watch for an excellent guest article from Larry Herrin on WordPress. I’d love to give the title right here and now, but I don’t want to spill the beans. It’s a great read.

Speaking of which, who wants to post as a guest on Monday October 26, 2009? Mondays are hereby declared “Guest Post Day.”