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  • 05 Sep

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    1 WordPress Database Plugin That Does It All

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    While looking around at the latest plugins that are available for WordPress, I noticed on wordpress org, that the second most popular plugin is WP-DB-Backup. As I continue browsing through the most popular list of plugins, I find several other plugins that optimize the WordPress database, and plugin that will help you restore your database if it’s corrupted, then a few other plugins to help you back up your database much like DB-Backup.

    After a while of looking through this list of popular plugins I start thinking to myself, "Why don’t more people know about the all in one database plugin that does everything you could possibly want with a Database without the need of installing multiple plugins to do the job."

    So in attempt to save my visitors time and hassle, I would like to recommend WP-DBManger plugin.

    WP-DBManager is a wordpress plugin I have been using for » Read the rest of the entry..



  • 30 Aug

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    WordPress Robot.txt – The Correct Way

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    Whenever I take over a website to help with improving the organic rankings, I always take a look at what Google has indexed and is currently displaying in search results for the website. In almost all case, if it’s a WordPress site, the search will show the theme folder has been indexed along with all the files in wp-content, wp-admin, and cgi-bin folder. Needless to say, Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. has now indexed redundant files that have nothing to do with your website and in most cases this opens up possible security issues and can cause a hit to your organic search results by indexing these files.

    The sad part is that all this can be prevented by the use of a good Robots.txt file that you can upload right to the root directory of your website. Takes a few minutes to do, and then you have to wait for the search engines to update your website indexing.

    How to make a Great Robots.txt File.

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  • 30 Aug

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    2 Must Have WordPress Plugins

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    WP Security Scan – This handy plugin will scan your wordpress installation to look for any possible security / vulnerability holes in WordPress. Most of the security items that it finds, it can fix automatically by itself, with no work on the users part. The only things that need to be performed by the user is to change the chmod permissions of files indicated as security risk. Easy to install, just extract to your plugin directory and activate the plugin.

    Nofollow Reciprocity     – Essentially what this plugin does, is look through a list of websites that use nofollow rules for links on their website. It then checks your blog for links going to these website, and adds nofollow to these links so you do not bleed off your pagerank which can cause a loss of serp because of non-recriporcal links. The plugin website goes into indepth detail of why you need to run this plugin and how it will help you with Organic Search Ranking. Easy install, just activate the plugin and it does the rest for you.

    Note: My only complaint with Nofollow was the link it puts in the footer that says

    This blog contributes to the web with Nofollow Reciprocity.

    So I decided to remove it because it was messing up my theme, and looks bad to have a link hanging at the bottom of my website outside of my wp theme.

    Here are instructions to remove it, if you wish to do so. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 29 Aug

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    Common Mistake In Search Engine Ranking

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    This article is intended to help people get immediate traffic to their website(s) from search engines.

    It’s a common dream among website owners to be number one in organic search ranking for certain keywords, but the mistake that they make, is not realizing that this is only a dream. They believe they can have amazing keyword ranking right from the start with common keywords, not even realizing that this type of ranking feat can take several hundred hours of time, energy, work, and dedication. In the end, the website owner gets burned out, loses a lot valuable time and over looks very simple ways to get traffic and customers.

    Instead it would have been wiser to start off with geographically localized keywords. As a result they would be trying to get ranking results over a handful of websites instead of competing against hundreds, possibly thousands of websites for a common keyword. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 17 Mar

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    Using StumbleUpon For Traffic

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    Stumbleupon Using StumbleUpon For Traffic

    I have been using StumbleUpon since the very beginning of this website, which is a little over a month ago, and I have had good success with it, considering I had no friends on the service to vote I Like It. StumbleUpon brings over 100 visitors, and growing each day. I have noticed that unlike Digg, Stumble has a delay time before you start getting traffic, usually around 2 to 4 days, but unlike Digg traffic, Stumble traffic is stable and visitors continue to come day after day, long after the article / website was posted.

    The process of submitting a website to StumbleUpon is an easy uncomplicated process and takes all of a minute to do. Then in an ideal world, people will come to your website or blog entry and click I like it on the stumble bar and this votes up your website, which results in more traffic.

    I do not see a need to write a full article about this service, because so many people have written amazing articles on StumbleUpon and the several ways to use it effectively. I have read everyone of these pages and recommend them to anyone who is actively trying to get traffic or least quality backlinks to their websites. I have listed 3 links to websites explaining everything and anything someone would want to know about the service, and how you should build your StumbleUpon profile so that you can get people Stumbling your page or pages.
     

    How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide

    Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon

    A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website

     

  • 15 Mar

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    Things To Check When Using WordPress

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    wordpress check(1) Things To Check When Using Wordpress

    I am writing this post as a result of my lack of due diligence. I am usually good at checking the important parts of a website to make sure everything is working and correct, but this little tiny thing that I forgot to check, went unnoticed until today.

    So here I am, testing out some search engine ideas for my website, and I noticed in Google search that the description for howbits was way off, in fact it was nothing like what I had put into the all in one SEO plugin. So off I go, back to my website to investigate this weird issue and come to find out, when I changed website design I had forgotten to remove the default meta description and keyword code for the theme.

    I learned that, all in one SEO loads it’s meta tags after the themes header information, so if a meta tag is used before all in one SEO meta tags, the first meta tags are shown and not the later ones. As a result all in one SEO description was not showing up, and my website description was the default blog description.

    So for anyone who has a WordPress website, who uses themes, and the plugin All in one SEO, you may want to follow this list of what to remove out of your themes header file. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 12 Mar

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    Decoding Encrypted PHP Files

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    Since I was just dealing with an encrypted footer.php file for the theme I use, I thought I would post how to decode encrypted Php files. This took me a few hours to find a source that actually worked. The most common way to decode a file is to create three files, decrypt.php, encode.txt, and decode.txt, to bad this didn’t work for me, and time consuming trying to figure out why it didn’t work. So as a result I found an easier way to get the information from encrypted php files.

    I am posting this for legal use, if you use this for illegal use, keep it to yourself, because that’s not the reason I am putting this on here. I am posting it to keep WP theme creators honest, and not loading up the footer with links to webpages you do not support. In the case of this theme, they had lots of links to online casino and gambling websites. I have no problem keeping a link on my page to the theme creators website and WordPress.org, but anything else is pushing it.

    Update – Try this method before proceeding to the code below. Change the php encrypted code from eval to Echo and then open the file in a browser, when the page comes up, goto view, page source, and this should be the exact code for the encrypted information. If this did not work, then try the code entered below.

    Note: If the code is $_F=__FILE__;$, this is another type of encoding that will not work with this code, it is encoded using Source Cop. 

    This is the easiest way I found to get the encoded information

    Copy this code into notepad, or whatever editor you prefer to use. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 10 Mar

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    Quick Tips For WordPress Speed Up

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    wordpress speedometer(2) Quick Tips For Wordpress Speed Up

    The subject of optimizing WordPress and making a website Stumble / digg proof, has been rehashed so many times, that I had to talk myself into even writing a post about it. This list is short and straight to the point about optimizing WordPress, with easy to use plugins and tips. Most of these have been mentioned several times before, but since I just re-did the design on my website and had to optimize it all over again so that it would load as fast as possible, I figured now would be a good time to post about how to do it, since it’s still fresh in my mind. This list is for people who don’t have access to the http.config file or the Php.ini file. It is over the top configuration, so no editing of the htaccess file.

    Recommended website to check out the loading speed of your website, and how big the web site file that is sent to each visitor. Website Speed Test

    WordPress Plugins – This article includes an advanced tweak for wp super cache, I have also included instructions on other things you should do instead of relying on the plugins to do all the work. I just wrote an article about must have and highly recommend WordPress plugins and all of these plugins are listed, with some other plugins that most bloggers should have and use.

    Wp-Super-Cache – Whenever your website is viewed or indexed, your database dishes out the information for the page. This can cause the website to load slow if the database has to do this for every visitor on your website. Wp super cache, takes the database information and makes static content that can be resent thousands / millions of times, so that the database doesn’t have to recreate the webpages every time someone visits your website.
    Advanced Wp Super Cache tip – Some people try to get the most out of this great plugin. The most common tweak is adding Gzip to the plugin, so that the page is zipped up and sent in a package to a visitor, which can result in a faster loading webpage. I say to use this at your own risk, I have had some issues with it where my webpage comes up as a blank index with nothing loading up, even though to me the page appears to be working fine. I ended up removing this tweak, even though the problem occurs only a couple times a week. For those brave souls out there that want to give it a try, heres how you add it. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 08 Mar

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    Must Have & Highly Recommended WordPress Plugins

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    wordpress icon Must Have & Highly Recommended Wordpress Plugins

    List of highly recommended and must have WordPress Plugins for the casual blogger to the full time professional blogger.

    Akismets – This plugin stops about 90% or more of comment spam on my website, for any blogger you need to make sure your website does not become over ran by spam.

    Wp-super-cache – Anyone who has a WordPress based website needs this. It speeds up your website by Caching and creating Static pages of your content. This results, in faster loading web site, since the database which dishes out the pages and various types of information, doesn’t need to work as hard. You will find that your bandwidth usage for your website will go down, and your website will show a significant increase in speed.

    All in one SEO Pack – This little goody helps to make your Blog SEO friendly, and to give you greater control over the basic SEO practices such as Page Titles, Meta Keywords, Meta Description, etc. Easy to setup, and is a must for anyone with WordPress who wants traffic from search engines.

    Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin creates the Sitemaps that you should be using with your blog to dictate what to search on your website. This plugin notifies MSN, Ask, Google, and Yahoo about changes on your website so the new content can be indexed.

    Optimize DB – I wrote a blog post on the plugin last week about Avoiding excessive CPU usage  errors from your web host. This plugin optimizes the database of your website, so you do not have to log into you phpadmin every day to keep your database small and efficient, so it does not take up the processing power of the machine that is hosting it. It will speed up the loading of your website and it’s easy to use, so use it at the end of the day if you have been posting or modifying your website. » Read the rest of the entry..

  • 03 Mar

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    SEO Addon Domains / Subdomains

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    This article is about the use of Folders vs Add-on Domains, also referred to as Subdomains, and the advantages and disadvantages of SEO and PageRank for both.

    Naysayers – Web SEO Guru Idiots

    Many web gurus will argue that search engines will see that the IP address is the same for each website and will put the website together in search results, and not split them out. If this were true, then hundreds of websites that are on shared hosting, that have the same IP address,  would be searched and indexed as one website. Another fact against what these web gurus think, is that if this were true, then why do the major websites such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. Practice this for their websites?? If you type in Google in a search engine you will see a long list of results for Google, such as news.google.com, maps.google.com, help.google.com, and the list goes on and on.

    Folder Domain – Pros and Cons

    When I say folders I am referring to folders that are one level higher on the site root. An example is http://howbits.com/examplefolder/.

    Pros

    1. When using folders you get more content for your website. Each folder, and whatever is in the folder is consider content for the main site, so if I make howbits.com/news/, well anything that ends up in the News folder is more content for my website and everyone knows Content is king. Search Engines love websites with a lot of content, so this of course will increase my ranking in search results
    2. PageRank is shared with the folders of the website, so whatever my PageRank is in Howbits.com, chances are if the links are built right, then any content in the news folder will get the rank share.
    3. Folders are easier to maintain then Add-on Domains, because they are still part of the main website.
    4. If the websites are linked correctly, you can get an indented listing using the main website with good SEO, and then connecting to another page with poor ranking, but the ranking can ride on the ranking of the main website and thus get better search results by proxy.

    » Read the rest of the entry..

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