Jamie Northrup - Montreal Web Consultant

Blog Comments That No One Talks About

Jamie Northrup — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:19:32 +0000

I love blog comments, and I hate spam. I think a lot of us feel that same way, it’s the blogger’s biggest love/hate relationship I can think of. Thanks for blog comments we can engage with other people, we help others and we can know who’s reading and what they think about what we wrote. [...]

Over 100 CommentLuv Blogs to Comment On

Jamie Northrup — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:48:07 +0000

For those who don’t know, CommentLuv is a plugin that some WordPress blogs have and it allows that blogs readers to automatically place a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. I’ve been thinking of installing this plugin on my blog, but haven’t decided yet, still weight the positives and negatives. [...]

My First Guest Blogging Contest!

Jamie Northrup — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:17:13 +0000

I’ve never participated in a guest blogging contest, not as a blogger or as a sponsor. Well this month, I decided to take a leap into both at the same time! I’m sponsoring the May edition of the monthly Blog Engage guest blogging contest and I will also write a guest post for the contest. [...]

How To Make Ten Dollars Right Now!

Jamie Northrup — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:17:09 +0000

I’ve never met someone who doesn’t like free money, and right now you can ten bucks for free, it will only take you a minute and it may just bring you even more money! Head over to the Affiliate Lights website and sign up for the affiliate program, it’s not only free to sign up, [...]

5 Things You Must Do After Installing WordPress

Jamie Northrup — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:00:33 +0000

I use WordPress for almost all my projects, and have installed it over one hundred times over the past few years, and there are certain things that are part of my new install routine that are simple but sometimes forgotten. I would even sometimes forget them, but I made myself a list last year and [...]

Top 10 WordPress Themes from April 2012

Jamie Northrup — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:56:33 +0000

Like pretty much every month, it’s been a busy month, but never too busy to not check out all the new premium WordPress themes. Here are my top 10 WordPress themes from April 2012. I always like to list my top ten from the month, it’s one of the many things I do on the [...]

Logo Design Showdown: Fiverr vs Freelancer!

Jamie Northrup — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:58:22 +0000

I don’t know what’s worse, my creative skills or my design skills. Either way, when it comes to logo design, I long gave up on trying to do it myself. I always outsource the work, and lately it has always been between two different places depending on budget, time and situation, the first being Fiverr.com [...]

Blog Commenting vs Guest Posting on ProBlogger

Jamie Northrup — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:28:40 +0000

I’ve attempted to do a case study before, and pretty much failed because there were too many variables in the study that made my results mean absolutely nothing, well this time I’ve taken it down a notch, and hopefully this will make more sense. Blog Commenting vs Guest Posting Basically I’m looking to compare how [...]

Top 10 WordPress Themes from March 2012

Jamie Northrup — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:26:05 +0000

I’m finally back to my blogging after almost 4 weeks off of paternity leave. During the time I didn’t really blog, however I did take quite a few decisions and made some plans that I will be sharing with you soon. Until then take a look at my regular monthly feature, the top 10 WordPress [...]

The Lil Wayne Guide to Producing Content

Jamie Northrup — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:05:50 +0000

One of my first guest blog posts that ever got published was on ProBlogger, the article was titled “What Bloggers Can Learn From Musicians“. In the article I compared a lot of what bloggers could learn from artists in the music industry. One of my favorite musicians, is Lil Wayne and I apply (or plan [...]