Tag: WordPress

Photo Credit oskay’s photos Do you do a lot of experimenting on your blog? I do. In the beginning, I changed themes, added and removed plugins, reconfigured my sidebars, experimented with ad placement, tried my hand at HTML (I knew nothing about it), and proceeded to crash my blogs a… read more If One Is Good, Two Is Better

Photo Credit: liewcf’s photos Bloggers are always looking for help. Help to get found. Help to make money online. Help in writing. Help in turning a blog into an online business, and help on how to blog. Well, I’m here with help. Today’s Lesson Listed below are 1066 great resources…. read more 1066 Links, Lessons or Tips For Bloggers

Photo Credit djrue’s photos A few months after I started blogging, I wrote, When I first started blogging, I felt overwhelmed by everything I was reading. My head spun for weeks, and the learning curve was more like a switchback road going through a mountain pass. With every site I… read more Winding Your Way Through Blogosphere

More and more as I travel through cyberspace, I see the use of gravatars (globally recognized avatars) on comments or in social networks such as StumbleUpon. This is the one I use used. Today’s Lesson With avatars, you can do one of two things. 1) You can make your own… read more How To Get and/or Add A Gravatar To Your Post Comments

Photo Credit miguelb’s photos Hello loyal readers, This is a very exciting , but nerve racking day for me, as Catherine Lawson and I are guest posting on each other’s blogs. Although my post on her blog, can’t match the caliber of Catherine’s writings, I’m hoping I haven’t made a… read more Increased Search Engine Traffic For Lazy People

Yesterday I wrote how we often marry our blogs, by becoming consumed with blogging. Today, I will share time saving tips I use on a daily basis which streamline my blogging activities.. Today’s Lesson 1) Install a good spam blocker. I use Akismet, however, there are others available which will… read more 15 Time Saving Tips For Bloggers

Photo Credit: srslyguys’ photos We love to blog, but as time passes, maintaining a blog gets very time consuming. Today’s Lesson When you first heard of a blog, you found how to get one for free, or signed up with WordPress and got a web host. You read/watched WP blogging… read more Me And The Blog – Till Death Do Us Part

Photo Credit: Ben Zvan This lesson starts with a short story. Stick with me. Many years ago, at a time when it was safe for two young girls to travel alone, my best friend and I went on a road trip. From the Midwest, we headed toward the west coast…. read more Stubborn Blogger Wouldn’t Ask For Help

Image Credit: buggolo’s photos Comment spammers are getting creative. They are posting messages on blogs, that at first glance, look like actual comments: Here’s a sample of one I got today; “Hi! I’m David Banner! Your site is good, i love it!” At first glance, it looked like a genuine… read more Are Spammers Saying “Gotcha”

Photo Credit : Makelessnoise When I started my WordPress blogs, I did tons of reading. I searched for WordPress tutorials, but there were very few. Those that I did find, were pages filled with many words and/or images. Now there are video tutorials. These videos show things as simple as… read more WP Tutorials – Where Were They When..

Photo credit Woodley Wonderworks On my mission to find new bloggers (for my New Blog Of The Week series), I use whatever means are available. I search the world wide web, I click on comment links, and I beg new bloggers to find me. Thus far, I have found three… read more If Content Is Queen, Where Is She Hiding

Recently, I noticed that Catherine, had added a new plugin to her great business blog. It is called “Comment Luv” The Comment Luv plugin, when activated, inserts a link to your most recent post, when you leave a comment on a blog that has the CommentLuv plugin activated. Today’s Lesson… read more Comment Luv Plugin Increases Traffic

I learn something new about WordPress, every time I’m working on my blog. Today, I learned how using the post timestamp can affect my post slug. Today’s Lesson I often use the “post timestamp” feature for future posts. Today, as I was running errands for our business, I got to… read more WP – Use of Post Timestamp May Require Changing Your Post Slug

It wasn’t until I started blogging that I read about “Google’s Sandbox”. Apparently, the terminology was given to some blogs that may be on a “probationary period” with Google. These are blogs that Google is “watching” to see how internet users react to them. Google may be looking to see… read more Google Kicked Me Out Of The Sandbox

If you blog and are using WordPress, you can use the “post time stamp” and pre-write posts, and have them “publish” while you are enjoying a good nights rest. Todays’ Lesson At this time of year, my full time job keeps me extremely busy. It’s time for quarter and year… read more WP Post Time Stamp – Publish While You Are Sleeping

Hi and Happy New Year to you all! Today’s Assignment If you pay attention to your blog’s footer, you will notice a copyright date/year. It’s time to change it. The change is easy. Go to your WordPress dashboard Clink on “presentation” Click on “theme editor” Click on “footer” (editing footer.php)… read more Change Your Blog’s Copyright Date

UPDATE: As of today, 1/24/08, BlueHost customers can update to WordPress 2.3.2 using Fantastico. WordPress has announced another update. The new version is 2.3.2. Today’s Lesson Apparently, the WordPress 2.3.2 update, will fix a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts, plus limits and stops some information… read more Updating To WordPress 2.3.2 Using Fantastico On BlueHost

Today I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1. Today’s Lesson Shortly after upgrading to WP 2.3.1, I proceeded to write a post. As soon as I hit “Save and Continue Editing”, I received an error message that looked similar to this: Table ‘wordpress.wp_xxxxxxxxxx(database)cat’ doesn’t exist] SELECT c.cat_name FROM wp_post2cat p2c INNER JOIN… read more Error Message With Upgrade To WordPress 2.3.1

Using WordPress for your blog, makes setting up a blog, posting and publishing easy. Today’s Lesson After you’ve been blogging for awhile, you may want to change your theme, add HTML code, or additional plugins to your blog. Finding the best source for technical information on WordPress, is right at… read more Best Resouce For Help With WordPress

Anyone who blogs, and researches “about blogging”, will run into the terminology “meta tags”. Today’s Lesson Meta tags, are “hidden”, HTML tags in your blog. Search engines can “see” these tags, however, they are not seen by your visitors. Meta tags can help with your SEO (search engine optimization), as… read more Meta Tags May Increase Your SEO

If you have been blogging for any length of time, you may have found that some days, you don’t feel very creative. In fact, you don’t even feel like writing. And, the harder you try to write a post that contains value for your readers, the bigger the writer’s block… read more Prepare For Uncreative Blogging Days

This week’s lessons have been about duplicate content. Today’s Lesson Having studied Google’s Webmaster Help Center, Google suggest numerous ways in which we can decrease duplicate content in our blog pages. Included in their list are: Robots.txt files 301 Redirects Linking consistency Use of top level domains Careful syndication Use… read more How To Decrease Duplicate Content

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… read more How Important Is A Robots txt. File

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… read more Plugin Reduces Duplicate Content

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… read more Duplicate Content – Should You Worry

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… read more Create Internal Links – Avoid Plagiarism

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… read more Updating An Old Post, Will Get You Crawled

Is your blog being found by search engines, referrals, or direct (bookmarks, or someone types in your blog URL)? I have two blogs, and interestingly enough, readers are finding this blog, by referrals, almost exclusively. (A lot of my referrals, become “direct”, due to bookmarking.) My second blog, Observation Mountain.com… read more Search Engines, Referrals or Direct Traffic?

As written earlier, in my post, Is A Hit, A Visit? we found out that a hit is not a visit. So, is a visit a visit? It all depends on which stats program you’re using. Today, I’m analyzing five different blogging statistics platforms. It’s going to get confusing. What… read more Confusing Blog Stats – Is a Visit a Visit?

The “Subscribe Me” plugin is a great tool to add to your site, and encourage readers to subscribe to your blog. On the right side bar of this page, you will see “Subscribe”, in a rectangular box (Update: I have since removed this plugin). It has a drop down feature,… read more Add “Subscribe Me” Plugin To Your Blog