WordPress, out of the box, is very good in optimizing your blog for the search engines. However, a default installation of WordPress does not give you the ability to add the description and keywords Meta Tags, to your posts. But, Do I Really Need Those Meta Tags? Since many search engines has devalued the information [...]
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by Ken on March 21, 2010
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This review might look weird, since I wrote it while I was testing Bilbo Blogger, kind of a live review, if you want. This is a test of the Bilbo, a blogging client for Ubuntu with a ton of smart features, like WYSIWYG, HTML editor, post previews, ability to schedule posts, handle media files and [...]
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Thanks to digital cameras, taking photos like a pro has become easy, even for true beginners like me. Besides the simplicity of taking a photo, we can also edit and polish them with ease, using various image programs. For example, with software like Adobe Photoshop, you can transform your digital photos into extraordinary pieces, which [...]
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With the latest word from Google, that they MIGHT consider to include loading speed into their algorithm, I decided to have a look what I could do to improve the performance of my WordPress blog. It turned out that there is a lot you can do, without involving your host’s tech department, to speed up [...]
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The easiest and maybe the fastest way to squeeze money out of your blog is to use Adsense. Using Adsense is simple, straightforward and within minutes, you will have ads that fit your reader’s interest. However, if you want to get some real income from Adsense, then a few cents per day (which is the [...]
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Matt Cutts said something interesting, in an interview the other day. He said that there is some lobbying going on, to introduce an additional factor into Google’s algorithm; site speed. Why? Well it’s simple really. Think about it, if a web-page loads too slow, the surfers will most likely hit their back button and no [...]
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In a previous post, I said that I would address Google’s PageRank and sort it out for you; what it really is and not is. It’s PageRank, not SiteRank. Google calculates your PageRank by looking at the quality and amount of back links, to a particular page. Since many people only link to the main [...]
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by Ken on September 10, 2009
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Now, my test of Twitter Rocket has ended and I’m stunned over the results. If you read my initial post about Twitter Rocket, you’ll know that I started with 65 followers. Now, as I write this review, I have 671 followers, not bad for someone that barley grasped the essence of Twitter, before! This also [...]
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