Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
I’ve had all my WordPress pages displaying full posts for a while now, and it’s pointless. When you go through a category or your search results, or an archive, you don’t want to see the whole post. The point is to scan.
Developed Traffic has the answer. I’m going to break it down into even smaller steps.
If your theme does not include an “archive.php” file, make one. Copy it from ...
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
If you use widgets for your sidebar in WordPress and want a drop-down category list, a search for dropdown category plugins may only lead you to a bunch that don’t work exactly like you want.
But here’s one that’s quietly masquerading as a minor improvement over the built-in category widget – but it allows drop down functionality with a click of a button and preserves the hierarchy and all that good ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
I never noticed this, but if you type into your browser window
http://mydomain.com/postname/
and
http://mydomain.com/postname
they open up like two different pages. The only difference is the trailing slash, but because WordPress doesn’t distinguish between them, it’ll open them either way. This means, to a search engine bot, you have two identical pages. The phrase “duplicate content” comes to mind.
Simple solution: Permalink Redirect is a plugin that you install (one file) and activate, and ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Aaron Wall posted some ways to “accidentally on purpose” start a controversy on your blog. Why? Controversy brings traffic, but maybe you don’t want to be blamed for it.
Um… I know that sounds like a good idea, but I’ve done his first tip accidentally not on purpose more than once: leave something out so your post can be taken the wrong way. This leads to traffic, yes. It also leads ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Google loves your site. It’s indexed 8 billion pages and they’re all #1. And then suddenly, they’re not. What do you do? Try every method of SEO you’ve heard of to bring it back? Throw off your white had in a tizzy and start spamming? Or just hang in there and wait for the algorithms to change again?
The “right” answer varies from one site to the next. You can’t always ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Now, this could be awesome. Amazon is beta testing context links.
Want to see some examples? MuppetCentral.com (single underline links are Context Links)
Thought Garage (double underline links are Context Links)
What I like best about it is that the popup is really fast-loading and smooth. It doesn’t hold your browser prisoner for a few seconds while it loads, and when you move your cursor away from the link, the box disappears instantly. ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
I’ve been reading up on Digg all afternoon. By the end, I’d collected a bookmark list of articles on it. Have fun with them!
How To: Get a SEO Blog to Digg’s Front Page – The 6 C’s
How Do I Get My Website into Digg
DiggBait 101: 8 Ways to Help You Get to Digg’s Front Page
Digg is for Dweebs: Free Link Bait Ideas
Social Media Marketing, eh? Let’s See What’s in Our ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
See the Digg It! button I’ve added at the right top of each post? And how it neatly takes you to a page where the URL’s already filled out and you have just a couple of steps to complete? Here’s how I did it.
First, I tried the script from Brandon Hopkins, and that just didn’t do anything. Not sure if it’s a WP version issue, or what, but I tested ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
You know those amazing posts people put together with huge lists of links, full of information on something that interests you? Check out Brandon Hopkins’ list of link building strategies. He covers onsite and offsite methods of attracting links. While some of the links fall under the “Yeah, I know, but it never works when I do it”, others will have you doing the V-8 forehead slap as you realize, ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
If your current approach to blogging is something along the lines of “look for stuff; write about it”, here’s a way to get more organized, increase your inspiration, and write posts quickly.
Get a Bloglines account (or whatever Feedreader you like that allows you to categorize different feeds)
Set up folders for each of your blogs
Put relevant feeds into each folder
Open up your Bloglines page each day and go from folder to ...
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