Use Flickr For Your WordPress Blog Images – Flickr Photo Album Plugin
Reasons to use flickr instead of the built-in wordpress imaging tools:
1. Flickr’s website gets a lot of internal traffic and you could increase your page views and website traffic just by putting all your images on flickr. I personally have images with over 20,000 views that generated at least 1,000 click throughs (you can put live html links in the image descriptions). Not bad considering it’s traffic I would have missed entirely. Additionally flickr has been expanded to become a full fledged social network to include friends and messaging.
2. Flickr offers a wide variety of image tools, like resizing, resamplling, and ajax grouping that completely rock and are far superior to anything built into wordpress. IT’s fast too. Upload a large image and flickr automatically provides multiple sizes and allows your visitors to do everything from favorite it to order prints. (more…)
Fast WordPress Seo Guide – Step By Step With 6 Plug-ins
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Steps for performing SEO a wordpress blog using 6 plug-ins. This guide assumes you know basic html, css and are familiar with using basic tools like FTP software. (more…)
Microsoft Word Blogging Tips – Change The Curly Quotes To Straight Quotes
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One of the most annoying things in Microsoft Word that bloggers run into, is that it uses fancy curly quotes that aren’t supported in the default character set of WordPress and other blogging platforms. If you copy and paste directly from MS word into WordPress or your blogging platform of choice you’ll end up with weird &@39; and other character numbers inserted to replace single and double quotes. (more…)
Social Media Optimization Tip – How To Put A Digg Button On Your WordPress Blog
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Believe it or not there is a right way and a wrong way to do this. Most wordpress blog templates use the content tag on the main index page, meaning it shows full posts unless you use a more tag. If you use a more tag it will truncate the post at that tag and give you a link to read the full article. (more…)
How To Change Your WordPress Blog To Display Excerpts Instead Of Full Posts
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The first question is why? Most wordpress templates display full content posts on the front page, making the main page of your blog have a lot of scrolling and only reveal a very limited amount of content to a first time visitor without lots of scrolling. Additionally for SEO (search engine optimization) it’s a good thing to reduce the amount of duplicated content (same content word for word as located in other areas). Here is a previous article I’ve written on how to identify and fix common SEO problems in wordpress. (more…)
