About a year ago, a discussion arose in the WordPress community about third-party sites that use the word "WordPress" in their domain name. We
posted our opinion on this issue since WP Garage has been running (until yesterday) on a domain with the word WordPress in it. We put WordPress in our domain ...
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When starting out, many bloggers seek out the cheap and easy route, either choosing to blog on
Blogger,
WordPress.com, or another free and hosted blogging platform. This approach makes sense, since a person can never know until they've started if they even like blogging, let alone whether they'll be successful.I ...
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SphinnCon Israel is this coming Tuesday in Jerusalem, and will have a great panel of experts on search and internet marketing, including representatives from
Google,
TechCrunch,
Yedda, and
Kenshoo.
Read my post ...
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This past Thursday, one of my sites reached
digg's home page. As we watched in disbelief, tens of thousands of readers flooded the site (and brought it crashing down in the classic "digg effect"). This was both exciting and frustrating. We learned a lot from this experience, and I would ...
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Ramit over at I Will Teach You To Be Rich reminds us that when all is said and done, a blog's success depends on the merit of its content, and not on the quality of its design, stats programs, or all the SEO stuff ...
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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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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 ...
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I recently posted a comment on a blog, and was surprised to get a trackback link as a result from their blog. Suddenly I understood what all the excitement is over turning off the NoFollow links from commenters. Why not make those links real? So I've installed
DoFollow here on WordPressGarage.com, ...
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I was using
Jerome's Keywords for tagging posts, and all was working fine until I finally upgraded from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 (yes, I know, I should have done it a long time ago, but upgrades scare me).
The upgrade went fine, but I noticed that when you clicked on a tag, ...
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Easy Web Tutorials.com offers easily customizable themes. They offer recorded on-screen videos that show you how you can easily customize the layout styles, the headers and the sidebar templates to make these themes look more unique or match them with an existing ...
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DoFollow plugin – sharing the love