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One of the most useful online tools I have found for evaluating a blog is WebsiteGrader.com. What’s really terrific is that it is free … and very good.
Website Grader takes a couple of minutes to analyze your blog, looking at things like meta keywords, number of images, language, Google Page and Technorati ranking, and [...]
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One of the really important features about Wordpress is Akismet anti-spam. It keeps your Wordpress blog free of spam, and is one of the best spam filters I’ve seen.
But you must get a Wordpress.com API key. Just sign up for a Wordpress blog. Â It will be a blank or dummy blog in the [...]
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Wordpress is a breeze! While it used to take search engines weeks to spider and pick up new stories on an html Web site, SEO on Wordpress takes just a matter of minutes, using a selection of free plugins for Wordpress and online services. Here’s how:
All in One [...]
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The new WP-Vybe theme from Michael Pollock of Solostream.com is, in my opinion, the most exciting, versatile and easy to customize Wordpress theme ever. I know that’s quite a statement, given the hundreds of Wordpress themes that are available.
But, all you need to do is test drive it to see WP-Vybe’s  extensive spectrum of innovative features.
After trying [...]
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While it may not be one of the slickest of presentations (like, who cares?!), Keir Whitaker’s “Cheaponomics” is certainly one of the most informative and valuable presentations on new trends, services and tools available in the fast-evolving blogosphere.
Keir works with Carsonified, an exceptional Web application and site development company based in Bath, England, and he [...]
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Many thanks to Brian who read my post on some of the best Wordpress plugins and brings my attention to Search-Unleashed from Urban Giraffe. Search-Unleashed enhances the normal Search box on your blog to deliver deep, fast results and highlighted keywords. Â Best I have seen.Â
You can check it out – it’s already in use on [...]
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Let’s consider this subject an ongoing and expanding list of good plugins for Wordpress that deliver valuable and useful features for bloggers. Â Plugins are a big reason for choosing the Wordpress blog platform. Â For example, the ShareThis at the end of this post is a plugin. Â Subscribe (in the center column under Pages) is a [...]
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For sake of transparency, let me say that I have not found one easy way to make sense of site rankings, especially since blogs came on the scene. When TV correspondent Greg Dobbs and I founded BoomerCafé in the summer of 1999, about all we had was whether the site showed up eventually on [...]
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Web hosting services is how you get a blog (or Web site) online. They are the conduit to the Internet. Today, Web hosting has gotten very affordable inexpensive low cheap dirt cheap. For as low as $4.95 a month, you can sign-up with a first-rate Web hosting company and be online within minutes. [...]
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I have a confession to make … I had been blogging for several years and was simply not aware of the special importance of permalinks. In fact, when I migrated my blogs over to Wordpress a couple of years ago, a friend pointed out that my blog permalinks were broken and, shhh … let [...]
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