April 2009

I dipped into a blog recently that I don’t visit nearly enough: Web Services and Tools. Eric, who writes that blog, is an Internet veteran.  And he has a wonderful ability to dig out all sorts of information from the most obscure places and write about it on his blog. A recent article of his [...]

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A long while back I wrote an article here about social network marketing. As with anything on the Internet, things move on very quickly, and social network marketing is no exception. So here’s an update on what I do today to promote my blog through the social networks. About a year ago everything was about [...]

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There’ve been some alarmist posts on a number of forums recently about the All-in-One-SEO-Pack plugin for WordPress causing your page rank to drop. They were raised because a recent upgrade to the All-in-One introduced a Canonical URL feature, which was activated by default. This, apparently, has caused some blogs to drop in page rank. The [...]

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I’ve been following the questions that people who are using WordPress have been asking on Twitter. As a result, I’ve put together a complete WordPress Tutorial that is designed for people using self-hosted WordPress (from WordPress.org) on their own domains. It takes them from deciding on a domain name, through finding a hosting provider to [...]

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As a long time user of the What Would Seth Godin Do plugin, I felt like I was cheating on her when I tried out WP-Greet-Box. Worse was to come: I decided to end my relationship with WWSGD and start a new one with WPGB. Here’s why:  

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I saw a question recently asking how to attach a Word or .PDF file to a WordPress blog post. Here’s the response I offered: There are 3 ways you can do this… Firstly:

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A while ago I wrote a review of Tweet Deck, one of the many Twitter desk top applications that help you manage the enormous flow of information more effectively. I liked Tweet Deck a lot, especially the ability to create groups so you can follow particular people more closely. But one of the things that [...]

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A while ago I put up a list of recommended WordPress plugins, that I use on new blogs. They’re broken down by various categories: SEO related, security related and so on. Since then I’ve found and used some others, and my Twitter friend @michaeldcarney reminded me that I should update the original list. So here [...]

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