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It’s been about a week and a half since I started this blog and I’m beginning to get spam comments as well as pingbacks from blogs that are just posting the first paragraph of my posts. Since I don’t want to have to moderate each individual comment, especially as the site grows, today I’m going […]
Read MoreAnd now for the topic of search engine optimization (SEO). As I mentioned last week, as I build this blog you’re reading I’ll write about everything I’m doing to it. Well today I’m working on improving its SEO. There internet is full of information on SEO and you could spend months or even years trying […]
Read MoreAt the time of this writing, I’m using the Thematic Theme Framwork. I’m sure I’ll build my own theme for this blog in time, but for the moment I’m concentrating on other things. The Thematic Theme Framwork has 13 widget ready areas, which is more than plenty. I’m just going to rearrainge my sidebar today, […]
Read MoreTechnorati is an search engine specifically for blogs. It was founded to help bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the global online conversation. It’s quite a site, and I’m claiming my blog there today. I’ll walk you though it here. 1. Sign up Go to http://technorati.com/account/signup/ and sign up for a Technorati account. It’s […]
Read MoreThere are two reasons I like to install WordPress in its own folder, rather than the root. First, I like to keep my root folder uncluttered. I don’t like a bunch of WordPress files that I’ll never be messing with getting in my way. That’s just a matter of personal preference though. The second reason […]
Read MoreThis will also be in my upcoming post on improving SEO in WordPress, but since I promised to write about everything I’m doing on this blog, I’ll make a separate post about it now. Permalink structure refers to the way URLs are formed within WordPress. For example, the default permalink structure in WordPress looks like […]
Read MoreWordPress is a great publishing platform, but there a few steps that should be taken to make it more secure. Here are 6 of the best. 1. Delete the user “admin” Every WordPress installation automatically generates a user account with the username admin. I’ll admit this is a logical username, but EVERY blog having the […]
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