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		<title>Best bug fix for Youtube player incompatibility with Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest version of WordPress, and, I suspect, other blog platforms, there is an incompatibility between the Youtube embed code and the visual editor. To work around this bug, here is how to embed video into your blog posts and pages: I had to fix the videos in code view, here are instructions for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2971" style="margin: 5px 10px" title="WordPress code view tab" src="http://socialmediasystems.com/files/2010/03/wordpresscodeviewtab.jpg" alt="" width="298" height="132" />In the latest version of WordPress, and, I suspect, other blog platforms, there is an incompatibility between the Youtube embed code and the visual editor.</p>
<p>To work around this bug, here is how to embed video into your blog posts and pages:</p>
<p>I had to fix the videos in code view, here are instructions for now, to  work around the incompatibility of the Youtube player with the visual  editor:</p>
<p>1.  Build the rest of the page forst<br />
 2. In the editor, click HTML tab, now you are looking at code, but the  text is still text so you can see where you are<br />
 3.  Insert the embed code from Youtube: example:<br />
 &lt;object width=&#8221;640&#8243; height=&#8221;385&#8243;&gt;&lt;param name=&#8221;movie&#8221; value=&#8221;http://www.youtube.com/v/YAwJR0_G2vU&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1&#8243;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&#8221;allowFullScreen&#8221; value=&#8221;true&#8221;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&#8221;allowScriptAccess&#8221; value=&#8221;always&#8221;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&#8221;http://www.youtube.com/v/YAwJR0_G2vU&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1&#8243; type=&#8221;application/x-shockwave-flash&#8221; allowfullscreen=&#8221;true&#8221; width=&#8221;425&#8243; height=&#8221;385&#8243;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br />
 4.  Remove everything but this:<br />
 &lt;embed src=&#8221;http://www.youtube.com/v/YAwJR0_G2vU&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1&#8243; type=&#8221;application/x-shockwave-flash&#8221; allowfullscreen=&#8221;true&#8221; width=&#8221;425&#8243; height=&#8221;385&#8243;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;</p>
<p>5.  Surround the embed code like this with</p>
<p>&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src=&#8221;http://www.youtube.com/v/YAwJR0_G2vU&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1&#8243; type=&#8221;application/x-shockwave-flash&#8221; allowfullscreen=&#8221;true&#8221; width=&#8221;425&#8243; height=&#8221;385&#8243;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</p>
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<p>6.  Save without going back to visual editor.</p>
<p><span id="more-2968"></span> <br />
 7.  If you edit the page later, you can use the visual editor to make  edits and change things around, but only save in code view (HTML tab)</p>
<p>8. For WordPress &#8211; there are plug-ins that fix this problem, I found this one with a five star rating:<br />
 <a href="http://www.press75.com/v4/the-simple-video-embedder-wordpress-plugin/">http://www.press75.com/v4/the-simple-video-embedder-wordpress-plugin/</a></p>
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		<title>How to setup simple two-tier afilliate program in WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress has a plug-in  Called WP Affiliate that plugs into the WordPress shopping cart using PayPal, or most other merchant gateways &#8211; it costs under $40 per site installation, and it is wonderful&#62; we have set the cookies to last 365 days, so that our affiliates get paid on any referral resulting in a sale [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress has a plug-in  Called WP Affiliate that plugs into the  WordPress shopping cart using PayPal, or most other merchant gateways &#8211;  it costs under $40 per site installation, and it is wonderful&gt; we  have set the cookies to last 365 days, so that our affiliates get paid  on any referral resulting in a sale at 15%, or any recruited affiliate  at 10% of gross sales, for one year after they are referred!</p>
<p>I have always wanted to do a direct marketing program for fun  products and services that are fairly priced: where the money is in  selling products, not business opportunity bubbles!  The time has come:</p>
<p>Would you like to make 15% of gross sales for referring people here,  and 10% of gross in overrides for their referrals for the first year?   This is not Multilevel, only two levels and we actually have a wonderful  list of<a title="Social Media Marketing Systems Services" href="http://rothmanmarketing.com/services/"> products and services  that everyone needs!</a> sign up here:<br />
 <a href="http://rothmanmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-affiliate-platform/affiliates/register.php"><img src="http://rothmanmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/websitesevolvedad4.jpg" border="0" alt="Social Media Marketing Systems" /></a></p>
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		<title>Fast WordPress SEO Guide &#8211; Step by Step with 6 plug-ins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo credit: adria.richards 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. First download the latest version and install and activate these plug-ins: All in One SEO Pack Google Sitemaps Plugin Redirection Manager Feed Locations WP [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="wordpress logo" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28694005@N07/2829286487/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2829286487_5c5830f441_m.jpg" border="0" alt="wordpress logo" /></a><br />
<a title="Attribution-ShareAlike License" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" target="_blank"><img src="http://socialmediasystems.com/wp-content/plugins/photo_dropper/images/cc.png" border="0" alt="Creative Commons License" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" /></a> <a href="http://www.photodropper.com/photos/" target="_blank">photo</a> credit: <a title="adria.richards" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28694005@N07/2829286487/" target="_blank">adria.richards</a><a title="Lars K. Jensen" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/67328541@N00/2798585875/" target="_blank"></a></p>
<p>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.<span id="more-770"></span></p>
<p>First download the latest version and install and activate these plug-ins:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/">All in One SEO Pack</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/">Google Sitemaps Plugin</a></li>
<li><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/">Redirection Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-feed-locations-plugin/">Feed Locations</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php">WP PageNavigation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/analytics/">Google Analytics for WordPress</a></li>
</ol>
<p>1.       FTP two empty text files to the directory wordpress is installed named &#8220;sitemap.xml&#8221; and &#8220;sitemap.xml.gz&#8221;.  Chmod 777 both of them.  Note: In my ftp program I can right click and choose new text file and then name it whatever I want.</p>
<p>2.       Go to the wordpress homepage &#8211; check to see if the site has an h1 tag and look at what&#8217;s in it.</p>
<p>3.       <strong>If there is an h1 tag</strong> -  It should contain a title that has at last 1 keyword string something like &#8220;Social Media Marketing Services&#8221; or &#8220;Denver Colorado Homes for Sale&#8221; besides the company name.</p>
<p>a.        <strong>If not do the following</strong> &#8211; Login to wordpress admin and make sure blog has a blog title and tagline that are ready for public launch (ie not just the domain name or a repeat of the blog title in the tag line).  add a keyword string to the blog title after the company name or url, take if from the questionnaire if possible or from <a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal">https://adwords.<strong>google</strong>.com/select/<strong>KeywordTool</strong>External</a> (type a few words describing their business and choose a string from the generated list)</p>
<p>b.      <strong>If there isn&#8217;t an h1 tag</strong> &#8211; check to see if it has an image header or the title of the blog contained in an image as opposed to regular text.</p>
<p>i.      <strong>If the blog has the title in an image</strong></p>
<p>1.       Add the h1 tag to the themes footer linked back to the home or main url (domainname.com) , you may need to add css styling to make sure it doesn&#8217;t break the header or appear to large.  One quick way to do this is to give the h1 a separate class and copy all the styles it&#8217;s normally inheriting to this new class.</p>
<p>ii.      <strong>If the blog has the title in text</strong></p>
<p>1.       Add h1 tags around it in the header file in word press, you may need to add css styling to make sure it doesn&#8217;t break the header or appear to large.  One quick way to do this is to give the h1 a separate class and copy all the styles it&#8217;s normally inheriting to this new class.</p>
<p>4.       Open up single post and page template in theme editor</p>
<p>a.       Check to make sure the title of the post is an h2 or an h1 &#8211; if it is leave alone if not add those tags and adjust css if the new header tags overlap or make things look bad.</p>
<p>5.       At the bottom of content area for the MAIN INDEX PAGE  (Page containing all the posts) and at the bottom of the content area on the category and archive templates put the following tag &lt;?php if(function_exists(&#8216;wp_pagenavi&#8217;)) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?&gt; &#8211; make sure wppagenav is turned on and if there is lots of content you should see pagination.</p>
<p>6.       Upload the all in &#8220;one SEO plugin&#8221; &#8211; activate the plugin &#8211; go to options &#8220;All in one SEO&#8221;</p>
<p>a.       Un-check &#8220;use noindex for categories&#8221; and check &#8220;use no index for tag archives&#8221;</p>
<p>b.      <strong>If the blog title is short</strong> (4 words or so) leave the post, page, and caterogy titles alone.</p>
<p>c.       <strong>If the blog title is long </strong>(more than 4 words) delete the &#8220;%blog_title%&#8221; from the post title format, the page title format, the category title format, the arthicve title format, the tag title format, the seartch title format &#8211; and replace it with a short branding word or two (like the company name &#8211; for example to enhance branding I added &#8220;GoToBilling&#8221; and &#8220;RISMedia&#8221; at the end of 2 clients I optimized their blogs.</p>
<p>7.       Add a homepage description.  If the homepage is not the posts page (IE the front loading page on the site is an actual page and not the main blog or page containing the list of posts) Add a separate home title, description, and keywords that are different from the blog title, description(tag line) and keywords)</p>
<p>8.       Go to manage- redirection &#8211; check &#8220;Create 301 when post slug changes&#8221;  and log 404 errors</p>
<p>9.       Go to manage &#8211; feed locations &#8211; put the feedburner URL in all the entries except comments (if you can&#8217;t find feedburner URL , create a new one and update the setup).  If you don&#8217;t have a feedburner URL (<a href="http://feedburner.com">sign up for one here</a>)</p>
<p>10.   Go to Option &#8211; XML- Sitemap &#8211; if there are two read sentences at the top click &#8220;rebuild the sitemap manually&#8221; &#8211; you should see &#8220;your sitemap was last built&#8230;&#8221; with a series of success messages.</p>
<p>11.   Check options &#8211; privacy and make sure &#8220;I would like my blog to be visable to everyone&#8221; is checked.</p>
<p>12.   Go to plug-in, google analytics and make sure the US String for that user is entered (there unique tracking number from google, it&#8217;s in the code snippet google gives you)</p>
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