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Make Thesis Work Better With Digg and Facebook

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If you’re involved with social media sites like Digg, Facebbok or Reddit, you’ve probably seen stories with images next to them. If you’ve submitted stories there, you may have seen it present you with a few image choices, sometimes the one you want is there sometimes it isn’t. Then there’s the the case where the [...]

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How to Add a Carousel to Your Thesis Blog

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If you’ve spent any time visiting blogs lately chances are you’ve seen those small little photo’s accompained by a title or bit of text in or near the masthead. I’m not sure if it has a proper name, but most people I’ve talked to call it a carousel, in this tutorial I’m going to show [...]

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Thesis Theme for Wordpress Review

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I’ll admit that when I first saw the Thesis wordpress theme I wasn’t really keen on it, in fact I really didn’t see the point. While I’m not a programmer by trade, I know enough HTML, CSS, and PHP to make things happen in the code. However after seeing some of the behind the scenes [...]

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Category SEO For Wordpress Blogs and Ecommerce

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I solved (at least partly) my problem maintaining rankings over time. Old pages that used to get traffic are once again seeing inbound search visits. I did it by tweaking my blog’s category pages, but I think the lessons are also helpful for ecommerce sites.

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Thesis Tutorial – Adding Date Based Triggers to Your Posts

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There are a lot of times when you are working on your blog template where you want things to happen based on how old a post is. This tutorial shows you how to do it. The programming is pretty simple and you don’t have to be using the Wordpress Thesis Theme to do it, but [...]

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Thesis Tutorial – How to Add Adsense Section Targeting

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Using Adsense on your blog usually isn’t the most profitable way to monetize it, but it is fairly quick and easy, which makes it a popular choice for many website owners. Last week I moved one of my commercial blogs to Thesis, and was reminded of the importance of using section targeting on your blog.

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Let’s Talk About Your Big But

September 29, 2008

I’m cruising through my feeds this morning and I notice a headline from the New York Times that might interest me

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Two Wordpress Plugins That Need to be Developed

August 4, 2008

After my SEO plugins for wordpress and backend plugins for wordpress most people would think that should cover most of the things anyone would need. However I can think of two that are needed right off the bat.

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Looking for Guest Posts

July 9, 2008

So over the years I’ve been asked more than once do I accept any guest posts, and they answer has always been no. Well I’ve decided to change that policy and try letting a few guests posts go out and see what happens.
So what’s it take to be accepted as a guest author? Well you [...]

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SEO Plugins for Wordpress Part II

May 13, 2008

Ever since my initial SEO plugins for wordpress post almost two years ago, I get asked for an updated list a few times a month. Well since we’re up to wordpress 2.5 I thought the time has come. I’ll also put some of my other favorite plugins at the end, they either enhance wordpress features [...]

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Wordpress SEO Mailing List

February 12, 2008

So my buddy Joost who puts out some kick ass wordpress plugin’s has started a wordpress SEO Newsletter. If you’re a fan of wordpress, you should subscribe because there are some good tips and plugins discussed, and I’m a wordpress mac daddy, so that means something.

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Suggestion for Yahoo Shortcuts Wordpress Plugin

January 26, 2008

Hey Yahoo Shortcuts Wordpress Plugin People, here’s a suggestion for improving your plugin, give me a checkbox to let me toggle the “Creative Commons” AND “OK to use commercially” settings.
For example if I was writing about my upcoming trip to say Hawaii and wanted to drop an affiliate link or two, while being perfectly legal, [...]

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Wanted Amazon Wordpress Plugin

January 15, 2008

I’ve been looking for one of these myself for a while but have never found one. A plugin that lets me put in my amazon aff id and then appends it “automagically” to all previous and new amazon links that get created.
All of the amazon plugins I’ve seen work with a search mechanism requiring you [...]

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Using Stats and Goal Tracking for Your Blog

January 11, 2008

I was reading Matt’s post today about stats and it reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to write about. What are the goals you have for your blog, if it’s a commercial blog and not a personal one where is your ROI.
Is it making a sale (direct or affiliate)?
Is it clicking on ads?
Is it [...]

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Sharing in Google Reader

December 17, 2007

Sharing in Google reader is pretty interesting, right now only two people are sharing with me which is kinda sad. What’s cool is if you turn out to be an annoying “social tuesdays” only kind of friend I can turn you off and ignore you completely. You also get to see the lame drivel cool [...]

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Wordpress the_tags is Missing NoFollow

October 30, 2007

Really wordpress when you decided to screw up the whole category system adding tags would it have been that hard to add a “nofollow” parameter flag to the_tags? I mean does anybody on the wordpress team get duplicate content as a concept?
You can get the Robots Meta plugin from Joost de Valk which makes the [...]

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What Happens When You Don’t Set up Your Feed Correctly

October 15, 2007

you get stuff like this

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How Google Desktop Can Drive traffic to Your Website

October 3, 2007

Recently I was discussing how the disparity of numbers in analytics was causing me some aggravation. After digging a little deeper I think I found part of the source of my frustration, the Google Desktop Reader.

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Wordpress 2.3 You Suck

September 26, 2007

Ok I’m not a programming expert, but I have been involved with computers and programming long enough to pick up a few things you shouldn’t do, like …
Don’t make massive changes to your database schemas that break existing functional programming. I worked for a retail company and had been using the same database schema for [...]

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Wordpress Plugin to Add Excerpt to Feed

September 22, 2007

I’m looking for a plugin for wordpress plugin and haven’t been able to find one, so I’m hoping one of my readers might know of one. I’m looking for a plugin that adds the excerpt to the contents of a full feed that’s already being published.
Why would I want that? If i put an image [...]

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