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Add Mixx to the WordPress Sociable 2.0 Plugin

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

You can add a Mixx icon to your WordPress Sociable plugin in less than 5 minutes.? I will provide both manual edits and modified files.? Either way it should be a very simple modification for anyone. Check out an interview with the founder of Mixx: Chris McGill, for the latest buzz on this new social […]

Forcing the WordPress index.php to the Main Url and Avoiding Duplicate Content with a .htaccess

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Duplicate Content on a large scale basis can ruin your blog.  I blame it on the search engines for not being smart enough to know exactly what you want, but in any case you can easily avoid this problem with your WordPress .htaccess.  In reality what you are doing is forcing a www. or non-www. […]

2 Tips for MyBlogLog Widget Optimization

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

  I really enjoy the MyBlogLog community and surely suggest getting involved if you participate in blogging.  There are quite a few different widget styles you can choose from, but these two tips should work for any style.  Very Important Note,  I simply used the provided JavaScript and created my own widget.  They offer a […]

DirectoryCritic Advertising Analyzed

Monday, November 26th, 2007

If your involved in the directory industry, you surely have visited directorycritic.com a few times.  Last month I was lucky enough to find an available 125×125 banner ad spot and I snatched it up real fast.  Anyway, yesterday made a full first month of advertising and I thought I would share my results with everyone. […]

Optimizing your WordPress Blog for Google

Monday, November 26th, 2007

If you haven’t caught the recent SEO Book news, Giovanna Wall has officially joined the staff of SEO Book.  Giovanna had a smashing first blog post with her views of Wikipeida one day ranking for everything. Early this morning while checking out my Google Reader to see if anything new was happening I discovered a […]

ALT Key Commands, HTML Equivalents, Special Character Shortcuts for Bloggers

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Often I find myself wanting to use special characters for my programming or blog post.? Using the windows ALT key or HTML equivalent makes this very easy.? I compiled an easy to follow chart of the most popular to help out with this. Html Equivalents Using the html equivalents in your programming or design is […]

5 Reasons Social Media Can Be Beneficial To Anyone

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

I think different social news sites have different overall objectives and cater to different audiences of the Internet. You can probably learn anything you need to know about interacting with these networks in a neat social media manual and other experts have summed up social media in a nutshell, but I would like to share […]

Reciprocal Link Option Removed from Lobo Links Directory

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

I would love to continue helping people build a presence on the web through reciprocal linking. I think reciprocal links are still an effective way of link building for both sites, but over the last 4 days I have had at least 35 submissions of shady sites trying to game the system.  I decided to […]

Keyword Marketing and Research

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

A lot of times to become a strong force in any market you must target some popular search terms / keywords.? Investing in keywords can deliver traffic and sales for years depending on how competitively that term is being pursued by others. Keyword Research The first step is too research the keywords you would like […]

Zyas Video Web Directory, Editor Pick November

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Zyas Video Web Directory is my Novmeber editor pick. You have to give it to this directory for their unique video creations for each listing. In the directory market of tomorrow, it is all about what else you bring to the table. Zyas Directory creates unique content for each listing and makes browsing entertaining. I […]