My WordPress blog uses the Carrington Theme, which I’ve been really happy with. However, there has been a bug where you can’t comment from the home page – you had to go to the individual post pages to comment. When you hit the Comment button from the home page, it […]
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How To Articles on creating and optimizing your WordPress blog.
The Benefits of Managing & Optimizing Mahalo Pages
Mahalo brings in over $1,000,000 per year in Adsense. They’ve got serious traffic, hundreds of new pages are being built every day, and all of this is crowd-sourced with little admin or overhead really needed on Mahalo’s behalf. The Alley Insider points to how much Mahalo is kicking ass these […]
Facebook Vanity URLs now Live!
Here’s what you need to know about the new Facebook Usernames: Go to http://www.facebook.com/username and reserve your username right now!. Your username will then become the subfolder on facebook.com where your page is stored. For instance, my username is “nickroshon” and my new URL is http://www.facebook.com/nickroshon Hurry up and grab […]
Create WordPress Pages
At first glance, it doesn’t seem like there is much of a difference between a new post and a new page. In fact, there really isn’t a difference if you are using the default WordPress theme. But once you upgrade to a new theme (like mine) you’ll see why Pages […]
Optimized URLs in WordPress Blogs
If you’ve just setup WordPress, one of the first things you should do before your first post is to change the WordPress settings so that each new post has its own optimized and SEO friendly URL. For example: default URL for blog post: nickroshon.com/?p=8 optimized URL blog post: nickroshon.com/categoryname/postname It’s […]
Claiming my blog on Technorati
Technorati Profile Register your blog on Technorati and claim it by posting a string of code they give you (can be put anywhere on the front page of your blog and removed after the claim is complete – mine is above). Technorati is basically a directory of blogs that is […]
Prevent Comment Spam!
Oops!! I changed my WordPress settings so that all comments would be approved without moderation so that anyone who was nice enough to leave me a comment could see it posted immediately – big mistake!!! DO NOT ALLOW COMMENTS TO BE POSTED UNMODERATED! I had about 1,200 comments on a […]
Register now to protect your internet identity
When you google your name what happens? If you’re lucky enough to have a relatively uncommon name, your facebook, linkedin, or twitter accounts are likely to come up on the first page assuming you are using your real name. These sites all have a lot of authority on google and […]