How Important Is A Robots txt. File

Over the past two days, I have been writing about duplicate content. As discussed earlier, WordPress blogs are notorious for duplicate content. Duplicate content can confuse search engines, and can get you penalized by Google.
Today’s Lesson
While researching on Google’s website (webmaster tools), Google suggests using a robots.txt file as one way [...]

Plugin Reduces Duplicate Content

Today’s Lesson
In an effort to reduce the amount of duplicate content I found on my blog pages, the first this was to use a plugin.
The plugin I am using, is named: Homepage Excerpts WordPress Plugin written by Daniel Scocco. Thank you Daniel.
What this easy to install, plugin does, is to [...]

Duplicate Content - Should You Worry

Over the past week, I have been spending time on Google’s website researching how search engines may see our blogs.
Today’s Lesson
One issue that caught my eye, is duplicate content in blogs.
With WordPress, we have duplicate content throughout our blogs. One post can be “recorded” in many different areas…i.e. monthly archives, [...]

Save Your Blog

It’s one thing to try and protect your blog posts from being plagiarized, however, now I’ve been asking myself, a different question.
Today’s Lesson
In the event of a natural, or man made disaster, how safe is my blog?
Recently, (week of 10/21/07), if you watch the news, you saw how a million (+/-) residents of the State [...]

Has Your Content Been Plagiarized

In my previous post, I wrote about adding internal links in your posts, to deter having your content plagiarized.
Today’s Lesson
How would you know if your content is being plagiarized, and if so, what will you do?
Shortly after I started blogging, I wanted to see how [...]

Create Internal Links - Avoid Plagiarism

Today’s Lesson
Recently I read an article (don’t remember where, so I can’t give credit to the author), about including links in your posts, in order to prevent someone from plagiarizing your content. In the event, someone copied your content, they would also be copying the links. Makes sense.
By linking to previous [...]

My “Blogging Buddies” Update

Links to and from other sites, are great for increasing the popularity of your blog.
When I first started this blog, I decided to provide a link to all individuals (who had blogs or websites) who commented on, or linked to my blogs. That is when my “Blogging Buddies” page was born. [...]

Experiment With AdSense Positions

If you are on this blog, trying to figure out how to make millions from blogging, you are on the wrong site. I would suggest you read a previous post of mine, titled Quit Blogging - Make Millions.
Today’s Lesson
When you sign up for Google AdSense, if you troll around their site, you will find [...]

Updating An Old Post, Will Get You Crawled

Today’s Lesson
We spend an awful lot of time writing posts. Some days, though, we just don’t feel creative, but we know we should get something posted, so the search engines will visit out sites.
I know that may sound like a lame excuse to post something, but we need those search engines making [...]

Is Your Blog Helping Others

I love to be able to help others. Not only in my everyday life, but now with blogging. Isn’t that really why we blog?
Today’s Lesson
If you have read my “about” page, you know I love old people, children and animals. My love for children is one reason reason I installed [...]

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