Articles in the WordPress Category
SEO Tips, Tools, WordPress »
I got an offer of a free SEO plugin, and thought I’d try it out on a new, not-yet-launched site and see what it does.
The plugin is called Free Traffic Getting SEO Plugin for WP. Once you’ve installed it on your site, it recommends the best plugins to download for SEO purposes. (It’s so easy to add plugins with the latest versions of WordPress – you just click on “add new” under Plugins in the Admin panel, type in the name of the plugin you want, and install it.)
The …
WordPress »
In my previous post, Web Site Vandalism on the Rise, I mentioned the importance of not using "admin" as your login for WordPress. One of the commenters asked that I write a post explaining how to change this, so here it is – complete with screenshots, since it can get confusing if you’ve never worked with a database before.
Since I use HostGator, I’m going to show you screen shots from there. (By the way, I highly recommend them for hosting your blog or site – customer support is the absolute …
Blogs, WordPress »
How do you write your blog posts?
Do you go directly into WordPress or Blogger, and write them there? Or do you write them in Word, then copy and paste?
My absolutely favorite tool in blogging is Windows LiveWriter. It’s a free desktop application – I write my entries offline, and can preview them in the blog’s template to see what they look like before either uploading them as drafts or publishing them.
With plug-ins, you can insert:
* graphics
* hyperlinks
* tables
* maps
* video
* Adsense
* book details
* Silverlight
* Flickr images
* smilies
* Amazon links
This …
Blogs, Content, Google, WordPress »
It’s upsetting to discover that nefarious individuals have scraped your RSS feed to make money off your hard work.
Many bloggers are also concerned that it will affect their rankings in the search engines. However, according to Google, they are quite good at identifying original content, and the result is no negative effects for the originating site.
According to Google:
Generally, we can differentiate between two major scenarios for issues related to duplicate content:
- Within-your-domain-duplicate-content, i.e. identical content which (often unintentionally) appears in more than one place on your site
- Cross-domain-duplicate-content, i.e. …
