10 Reasons Why I Love WordPress

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Ok I may be going back to basics here but that’s what this site is about, helping the newbie’s and intermediate WordPress users with their websites & small businesses. I love to build websites and I love WordPress. I think I have been using WordPress for around 3 years now; I started my own sites [...] Read more »

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Improve Your Blog by Tidying Up Your Sidebar

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In my earlier days with my blogs I would cram as many sidebar items on my blog as I could. The latest widgets, sign up boxes, social media icons, several blogrolls, affiliate banners, subscriber counts, search boxes, tag clouds, flickr photos etc etc. The list goes on. Now i’m not saying that any of these [...] Read more »

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SEO Doctor

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I’ve just come across a simple little Firefox addon which reveals the SEO score of your site through an easy to understand scoring system. Not only that the SEO Doctor will offer great suggestions on how to improve your SEO score based on official recommendations from Google and such like. You can download it here [...] Read more »

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WP Questions To The Rescue

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I come across WPQuestions.com about 5 months ago when I believe it had just started and was really impressed and excited by the concept. However the site was quiet back then and in my opinion needed time to evolve and attract askers & experts. You see, WPQuestions is a problem-solving community for WordPress aficionados developed [...] Read more »

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Facebook Integration

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In this video Michael Stelzner from http://socialmediaexaminer.com interviews Jesse Stay, co-author of I’m On Facebook Now What? and founder of SocialToo. Jesse talks about Facebook and how Facebook Connect can help you build a stronger online community. You’ll also hear about Jesse’s Twitter strategy using multiple Twitter accounts and the tools he uses to stay [...] Read more »

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WordPress “Three Point Oh!”

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I’ve been using WordPress 3.0 for a couple of weeks now, I installed the beta version when I moved my hosting account. I love it! The new colours on the dashboard make it look really sleek and less frumpy. There are a couple of improvements that really stand out Bulk plug in upgrading, you actually [...] Read more »

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Google Social Search

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Ok it’s been out for a few months now, but it’s worth talking about because it is quite exciting. It is Google’s new “Social Search”. What this does is provide relevant search results from conversations and posts your friends in your circle may have published in addition to the organic search results. The whole ethos [...] Read more »

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Are You Killing Your Own WordPress SEO?

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On one of my WordPress sites, I was confused as to why it was not getting indexed in Google or other search engines. I verified my site in Google Webmaster Tools and tried to submit a sitemap. In the webmaster tools panel, it told me that my robots.txt file was blocking Google from getting my [...] Read more »

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Improve Your Website Speed Instantly!

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Website performance is much talked topic these days but still there are a surprisingly large number of webdevelopers that neglect the impact of site loading time for their SEO, visitor experience and most importantly sales. Here is a quick tip to improve your website performance score (as measured by YSlow). It takes literally less then [...] Read more »

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The Page Peel Plug In

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This plugin adds a  flash Page Peel Ad to your WordPress powered blog. It preloads big image so you won’t get delay before displaying image when you hover ad like in ordinary Page Peel scripts. Check it out top right of your screen there. Cool eh? These types of ads are great for any type [...] Read more »

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