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Another way to prevent Google from spidering duplicate content: excerpts

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
As mentioned in a previous post, Google penalizes sites for duplicate content. One way of solving this is modifying the robots.txt file. Daily Blog Tips describes another way to prevent Google from finding duplicate ... View Post

Set up robots.txt to prevent Google from finding duplicate content

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
A standard WordPress site has the same content displayed in numerous places, such as Archives, Categories, Feeds and so forth. Blog Rambler says that this can damage your Google ranking since Google penalizes duplicate content: When a crawler visits the site it must decide which of these pages is most relevant, ... View Post

You can offer a variety of feeds on your WordPress blog

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments
Lorelle has a whole explanation on how to provide more than just post and comment feeds on your blog. She explains how to add category feeds, with or without RSS icons, making them auto-discoverable, and even add customizable keyword search feeds. She also discusses whether it's ... View Post

Pros and Cons of Google AdSense

| April 11, 2007 | 1 Comment
As I've mentioned before, I don't like AdSense. I think that most of the time it's tacky. Here are two more opposing opinions on this issue:
  • Daily Blog Tips has a blogger face-off between Brian Gardner and Cory
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    Make your sitemap work for your by modifying your robots.txt file

    | April 11, 2007 | 0 Comments
    Quick Online Tips explains that beyond installing a sitemap on your site, you can help search engines find your sitemap more efficiently:
    Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo! have announced support of “autodiscovery” of Sitemaps. The new open-format autodiscovery allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps within
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    Must See: 52 Ways to Promote Your Blog

    | April 11, 2007 | 0 Comments
    Better Business Blogging has put together an amazing list of 52 ways to promote your blog. I have seen many lists out there that address this issue, but I've never seen one that is so comprehensive, and has so many tips ... View Post

    Restricting Pages to logged in users

    | April 9, 2007 | 0 Comments
    redwing studio has a detailed description how to set up a Page in your WordPress blog so that only logged in users can see the content. You can restrict access to a page by making it private, or by using a Role Manager plugin, but this method allows the following:
    • The Page
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    Online pinging tool for bloggers

    | April 1, 2007 | 3 Comments
    King Ping is an online pinging service that enables bloggers to update in one click the rest of the blogosphere (or many different search engines) about their new posting. There are a few things that aren't clear to me about this service:
  • Why would a blogger need this type of service, when most blogging platforms
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    Method for speeding up Google Analytics

    | March 31, 2007 | 0 Comments
    Google Analytics is a popular tool used by web owners to monitor their site statistics. It can be easily installed on WordPress using any one of a number of plugins designed for that purpose. However, it can slow down the performance of your site, especially on a CMS system like WordPress.... View Post

    Embed Finetune in your blog

    | March 31, 2007 | 0 Comments
    Some of you may have noticed that I added a Finetune player in the right-most sidebar. Why? Only because I LOVE Finetune. As opposed to the other online music services, it actually lets you choose the songs you want to hear, as opposed to guessing what songs you like based on songs ... View Post
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