The Michel Fortin Blog

A couple of new things to tell you about today. First off, I'm trying a new experiment. I've decided to close and remove comments on this blog. Just to see what happens. Why? Here's the thing... When I post a new blog post, it will be...

I often get requests from people asking me what plugins do I use on this blog. Or, what are my favorite plugins. Sometimes, I post about them. But these lists usually become stale fast, because I test new plugins and change them all the time. So...

Thanks for being patient with me. I haven't posted in a while because of something that happened last week. You see, my blog was hacked (not by a person but with malicious code that creeped into my blog), and as a result I was blocked by Google....

Part of my job as a copywriter includes, from time to time, creating names for businesses, products, and services. Choosing a name may be the single, most important business decision you will ever make. We are constantly bombarded with marketing...

Nowadays, it’s no longer a choice between the A and B piles. It’s no longer a choice between hundreds of stations or channels. It’s a choice between millions if not billions of options called “websites.” But there’s something...

The “Google Slap.” You’ve heard of it. You were probably affected by it. Essentially, Google, the world’s largest search engine, recently penalized a whole bunch of sites because they, too, judged them to be of poor quality. Either they...