As part of your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) efforts, take time to run your website or blog through a few tests to see how a search engine sees your website or blog when they visit. It’s a good learning experience. Things to look for are: What is seen first, second, and third. When the “meat” […]
How to Choose a WordPress Theme for Your eChapbook and Blog is part of an ongoing lesson for young people on web page design and development, and blogging, of course. The first instruction is to choose a WordPress Theme for their blog and discuss why they made the choice they made. Choosing a theme is […]
February 13, 2006 – 11:38 am
Comment spammers are on the loose again, coming up with more inventive ways to distract us from their spamming comments, while they think they are increasing their page rank in search engines by forcing you to link to their websites with their comment spam links. I need to make this really clear, to you and […]
January 16, 2006 – 10:15 am
AARRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Do you hear me yet? Listen closely. AARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! This is the sound of the pain and suffering bloggers on WordPress.com and WordPress make when they encounter the most lovely and useful of WordPress Themes that lack a few of the most basic elements. Come on, folks. Can’t you read? This is common sense stuff […]
January 15, 2006 – 7:11 am
Search engine optimization doesn’t cost, but not paying attention to search engine optimization costs you plenty. The following are tips, techniques, and the tools you need to create a search engine friendly website or blog. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the technique of fixing code, writing keywords, and making your site an open door to […]
December 26, 2005 – 7:13 am
Not long ago, I talked about the awesome Ulitmate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin by Christine Davis and how to add this plugin to your full version WordPress blog to put the power of tags on your blog. I thought I’d also point out an excellent guide to putting tags on your WordPress blog by Trainque […]
December 16, 2005 – 7:58 am
In an article by Bill Machrone in PC Magazine called “I Blog/Do Not Blog”, he explains that the type of program used to blog is little different from any Content Management System (CMS) like those used to run CNN, PCMag, and other corporate sites. A surprising number of people don’t realize that blogging software is […]
November 15, 2005 – 2:24 pm
This WordPress Theme called “Pool” I’m currently using is designed by Borja Fernandez and works well for my blog here on wordpress.com. We don’t have a lot of choices here, but I liked the look and some of the details, but after a few months using this Theme, there are a lot of details I […]
October 20, 2005 – 10:37 am
A few years ago, before Google and Yahoo took dominate control of the search engine industry, there was a huge move towards innovative search engines. Cluster search engines worked on the data clustering theory that categorizing groups of information makes finding specific information faster and easier. Enter the Keyword Map known as KWMap. This keyword […]
October 12, 2005 – 9:50 am
Search engines honor links to your site highly as part of their search engine page rank system. This gives special powers to links that you need to understand. Links can go to a specific post or article on a website or blog, or to the main page of the site or blog. Links work in […]
September 27, 2005 – 11:37 am
This applies to the 2005 version of WordPress and WordPress.com. Owen Winkler, plugin author of Exhibit Preview has been working on an addition to the next version of WordPress to improve access, uploading, and viewing of images within the WordPress Write Post administration panel, as has Andy Skelton. Well, whether they are working alone or […]
September 27, 2005 – 8:35 am
Part of keeping a viable website is to keep it current and updated. To keep up with all the tasks associated with running a website or blog, here are some tasks you need to aded to your calendar to help you keep track. Checking Your Site Statistics Who is visiting, where they are visiting from, […]
September 16, 2005 – 5:45 pm
Site Directory Feeds Full Site Feed WordPress News Category Feed WordPress Tips Category Feed Blog Babble Category Feed Web Wise Category Feed Comments Only TechCrunch: Review of Online, Web-based Feed Readers Site Search Tag List The following are the most commonly used keywords and phrases to search this site. Click on the tag to generate […]
September 14, 2005 – 8:18 am
Did you know that there are a variety of awards you can win for your website and/or blog? There are blog specific annual awards and there are a ton of website awards and contests. Since I’m having a sort of contest of my own to pick 5 wordpress.com bloggers to interview on this site about […]
September 9, 2005 – 8:14 am
Categories and Tags are for your visitors, not just search engines. Think of your visitors’ needs first. Categories and Tags are about navigation and sorting, grouping your content to help visitors find related information. Categories and Tags are not fashion statements. Don’t be colorful or imaginative with either. Categories are your site’s table of contents. […]
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