WordPress SEO and Blog Marketing

And it will likely grow more in 2008.

Lynn Terry started an interesting meme titled My 2007 Book List which got me thinking about the books I purchased and read in 2007. After perusing my Amazon order list, I realized it wasn’t the only place I was plunking down cold hard cash for reading materials.

I also shopped at Borders, Books A Million (the outlet store has some great deals on remainders), and Barnes & Noble. Not to mention the occasional online ebook purchase. But, for the sake of keeping things simple, I’m going to limit the list to my Amazon purchases — brace yourselves; this is not a short list. Continue reading »

As I was in the process of writing a new blog entry titled “Do You Know Who’s Reading Your Drafts” in response to a recent loophole in the WordPress system, the development team has come out with a brand new update.

In case you were wondering what all the fuss was about, anyone who adds /wp-admin/ to your URL could view the posts that were currently sitting in draft or published with a future date.

Now, this method is truly harmful if you publish your entire post on the front page of the blog as opposed to using the more tag or excerpts because clicking on the permalink would, of course, yield a post not found error. Continue reading »

To many bloggers, Akismet is a godsend. It saves them from hundreds, sometimes thousands, of unwanted spam comments and trackbacks each day. But, something you may not have been aware of when you activated the plugin is that it comes with a great deal of responsibility.

Have you ever found yourself reading a blog that inspired you to comment — and not just any comment, one that was well thought out and took you about 10 minutes to write — but when you submitted it, it was lost to the oblivion of cyberspace? Or rather, Akismet moderation?

Even if you haven’t, chances are increasing that you will. It’s actually happened to me a couple of times, but luckily I knew the bloggers personally and I was able to drop them a quick e-mail to inform them of the situation. Continue reading »

It looks like Yahoo! has launched its response to the Ask! Answers WordPress plugin, and raises the bar with their own WordPress plugin. Continue reading »

Sometimes it’s just not feasible to have the sub (or child) pages listed within your sidebar in WordPress, especially if you have a lot of child pages. However, instead of needing to manually add each link to its parent page, you can quickly do it with a bit of PHP goodness. Using the following code within your page.php file will add a list of all the sub pages to the currently viewed parent page. Continue reading »