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Increasing traffic for your blog in 4 ways
Easy 125×125 Ad Management Plugins For WordPress
If you are selling ad space on your blog, then you will know how difficult it is to manage ads and then remove then after expiry. But there are 2 plugins to make work easy
1) UBD Block Ad
2) WP125
Best tips to improve your blog search engine optimization
There is a lot of amazing SEO power built into WordPress. Unfortunately it does not all come by default, and you might not know what is best when it comes to templates and options. Follow these simple rules for search engine optimization and your blog will rank much higher in Search Engines.
1. Optimize WordPress Permalinks
The most search-engine friendly permalink MUST includes the post title (%postname%) in the link,having keywords in your URL is an absolute must, In your WP admin panel, click on the “Options” tab, then the “Permalinks” sub-tab, and choose the option just below the “Default” permalink option. My suggest permalink structure is /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ or /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html .
10 best plugin for wordpress
WordPress is a simple to use blogging tool. The beauty of WordPress is that it can become so much more with the simple installation of plugins. With a few clicks, WordPress can become a full fledged Content Management System (CMS). Here is a rundown on the top 10 best plugins every blogger should have installed.
Here is a great list that I whipped together of some of the most useful and most popular WordPress plugins which every blogger should have installed. Enjoy the list.
Akismet – Simply the best Spam protection you can get for handling comments on your blog. Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they are spam or not, also checks the trackbacks for spam.
wp paging – wordpress page number/nevigation plugin
wp paging is a great plugin for wordpress to add page navigation in your blog. WordPress has no built in paging function with numbers for themes. It’s good for users to know how many posts there are and even go to the last one. It’s good for SEO as well.
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Choosing a title for your personal blog
Trying to choose title for your personal blog? It can be difficult, specially for people, who have never start a blog before. Your always want your personal blog title to be very perfect and explain properly what the blog is about. Should be creative and put good impression on your blog readers. But question is how you can do that? Following article will explain you all about it.
Step 1
Title of blog should inform your blog readers that what your blog is about, and catch the attention of readers. It should be short in length, should include right key words for search engine
traffic, should be unique and most important should have correct spelling. Keep all these six points on your mind when considering title for your personal blog.
Search engine optimization by improving permalinks
Permalinks are the permanent web addresses for your individual blog posts. One of the great features of WordPress is its extremely easy and flexible to make your permalinks into pretty much anything you want.
When considering how to setup permalinks, you want to put some thought into how you want the web addresses on your website to look to both your users and your search engine spidery friends.
Defend your blog from spam comments
Spam is a problem that plagues any resource on the Internet that allows any kind of user input. The unscrupulous denizens of the Web are constantly on the look out for more ways to include profitable URLs in accessible locations on the Net and as the awareness and popularity of blogging increases so does the allure of utilizing it for profit. In the blogging universe, this has largely meant comment spam. Comment spam is usually attached to older entries (in hope of escaping the notice of admins) and unrelated to the content of the entries to which they are attached. It’s annoying and a problem that will likely never end. Luckily there are more than a few ways to fend off the would-be exploiters in ways that will save you time and energy better spent adding content to your blog rather than weeding out the rotten apples. Here are five WordPress plugins that can help in this process:
1. Akismet. Akismet would be popular even if it wasn’t incredibly effective because Matt Mullenweg the head honcho of WP development is its creator. Luckily, it is as good as its reputation at dealing with comment spam. It works by comparing comments to a huge database of information about spammers already recorded and taking action against those comments when appropriate. Usually suspect comments are quarantined for a period of 15 days. What makes this tool especially valuable is that it is adaptive to prevent the poisoning of the database with false positives. If Akismet marks a legitimate comment as spam then not only can you transfer it out of the spam queue but it is also reported back to the database as a false positive. This one is included with every download of WordPress so all you really need to do to take advantage of it is to head over to WordPress.com to sign up for a user account, grab your API key, and activate the plugin in the WP dashboard.
2. Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam. This is a Captcha solution to the comment spam problem. Users are prompted to enter a word before they can successfully submit a comment. This is effective in combatting the use of automatic spam bots that try to leave as many comments as possible. This also allows you to granularly control how the plugin is doing its job by creating your own list of source words and selecting whether or not registered users will have to complete the Captcha in order to leave comments.
Adding multimedia content in blog with 10 plugins
WordPress is used not only as a vehicle for transferring many words but also as the delivery system for all kinds of other content. Blogging no longer operates within the confines of a text-based medium and many people are hard at work trying to make the inclusion of other mediums as simple as possible. Even if you’ve primarily thought of your WordPress blog as text oriented the ease and ability of some of the plugins highlighted here may make you reconsider that. We’ll look at a handful that do wonderful things with images, video, and other types of content. These are great for taking your blog in an entirely new direction or just for experimenting with new ideas.
1. Imagemanager is a plugin that aids in uploading and doing basic manipulation of images. You can crop, resize, and rotate images all within the WordPress interface. This is a much more flexible solution than the image upload built into WP.
2. Lightbox2.0 is a visually stunning way to display photographs and other images and make expanding from a thumbnail to full size a dramatic Web2.0 affair. You simply activate the plugin, add tags to the images you would like to add this functionality to, and you’ll have an impressive display of Javascript enhanced beauty to make your image the center of attention instead of a visual element buried among other visual elements.
Choosing best host for your blog, consider 5 things
One of the most important aspects of establishing your very own WordPress installation is the ‘where’ part of that question. Unless you’re lucky enough to have some server class machines hanging around your house connected to a dedicated and blazing fast connection, it’s going to be a decision you’ll need to make. Here are five things you may want to consider to help you make your decision.
1. Package and Platform. Many hosts offer bundled packages on a specified kind of machine. The usual offerings give you a choice between Windows and Linux and a number of options for both. Without sounding too much like a platform partisan Linux is usually the wiser choice of the two provided that you’re offered an administration control panel (like Cpanel which gives you more than adequate control over your environment without the requiring you to use the command line for day-to-day administration tasks. A Windows environment will also run WordPress equally well but often costs more for features that you won’t find necessary for hosting a WordPress blog. If you genuinely need FrontPage extensions or something similar that requires a Windows host in order to run then, of course, use Windows.
2. Software versions. Again, most hosting companies make the specifics of the machines available for easy comparison but what are you looking for, really? The version of PHP (the web scripting language that WordPress is written in) is probably the most important here. Although the 5.x versions of PHP are listed on the PHP website as the most current they are often not what you’re looking for. The 4.x series will offer more compatibility with WordPress and any other PHP applications you might want to run in the future. PHP5 is not generally well regarded within the hosting community. Many very popular web applications aren’t yet ready to play nice with the new version yet. For WordPress users, this doesn’t mean that things won’t work but that some features can be problematic when using the newest version of PHP. Some people have reported plugins breaking after their host upgraded to PHP5 so it is something to think about when evaluating a host.