Chromand - Desiging, Developing, and Marketing for the Interwebs

You may have noticed I’ve adde over twenty links to the sidebar here at Chromand.  These are various types of sites which find useful, and I’m hoping that all of my readers and clients will find helpful as well.  So why should you be using something similar on your site, and what’s a good way [...]

Writing Pillar articles is an important part of building good unique content for your blog, and getting some traffic. Pillar Articles are posts you write that are designed to be ‘evergreen’ or always relevant, and should be some of your best work.

Everyone who blogs talk about how much they want to get links to help them climb up the SERPs.  One way of doing this is by giving out links generously to other bloggers you like. Sometimes you get a link back.  If you don’t, it’s still good karma.

I recently installed Performancing Ads on this website, As you can see by the redesigned sidebar. Each of these 125×125 buttons is for sale. Since I’m just starting, I figure I’ll offer a deal to any interested publisher, and These ads are currently going for just $1 a week. If you are interested, shoot me [...]

The biggest thing that kills people’s internet dream of making money online is that they have been so poisoned by the idea of “I made $xxxx in x hours, and you can too!”  that they don’t realize how much effort it takes, especially when getting started.

The number one thing that kills most blogs is that people cannot update them regularly.  Maybe they lose interest or move on to other projects, or are just to busy. I’ll be honest, it’s happened to me before.

When I mention to people that I work in web development/design, A common conversation comes up. People tell me they have a cool idea for a website, and it becomes apparent that they really have no idea what it takes to start a website. This is the way people think websites work:

The main thing that made me want to move my site over to Wordpress was all the different plug-ins you can install. I’ve got a number of them running now, and I wanted to give you all a little insight into the ones I’m using, how they work, and what they do.