What’s A Trackback?

June 8, 2008

In a nutshell it’s a type of linkback. It’s a process for bloggers to send a notification and demand for linkback once they write something in one of their documents that directs to other blogger content. Once a weblog author publishes a post, the other blogger receives a notification, and through moderation process can permit or refuse the trackback. They moderate it just like a regular comment. If they permit it, trackback will show in comment sector of their post, with linkback to the first blogger.

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Optimize Your Images Like a SEO Professional

June 3, 2008

I have decided to switch to revolution theme and will do that next week because this week I will have limited access to the internet. And this excellent WordPress theme is nice intro for my post, because its area is much smaller than xmark theme which I am using in this moment. So, my large images do not fit in the new weblog theme, and I will need to adjust them. I’ve already done that with few of them and will continue with the rest.

The point is that I need to reformat my blog images. And I want them to fit in nice, and I found that general rules (which will not cause problems in any theme) are:

For images, only use .jpg or .gif file formats;

Images on the site should be no larger than 400 x 400 pixels at the most. Even better size would be 200 x 200.

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You Don’t Have to Be A Professional To Monitor Your Market!

May 26, 2008

Whatever your site is about and whatever market you are in, this service is bringing post material to you. Like I stated in the post google web accelerator can speed up mozilla firefox and internet explorer Google is offering so much amazing tools behind the searching the web.

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Don’t Allow This Stupid Mistake To Lose Your Page Rank

May 22, 2008

Image via Wikipedia

Yesterday I discovered how your website can play “ugly” game with you, along with search engines. These all addresses search engines are seeing like a different URLs, no matter they open the same page:

http://example.com

http://example.com/

http://example.com/index.html

http://www. example.com
http://www. example.com/
http://www. example.com/index.htm

If you or other people are linking to your Internet site using a diversity from these similar URL’s, you’ll not only be thinning PR(Page-Rank) on your site, but in addition to that you’ll suffer the risk of having your content marked as duplicate. Once Google sees all the multiple versions of your domain name their spiders examines which page to rank, and all the rest directs into the supplemental index.

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Trackback Now, or You’ll Hate Yourself Later

May 20, 2008

Getting adequate image related to a blog post can be time consuming. And also, we all want more traffic.

Here I have created a video showing how to get more potential traffic to the WordPress blog using simple extension for Mozilla Firefox.

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Speed up Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer With Google Web Accelerator

May 10, 2008

Google Web accelerator will speed up your Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. It will not work for other browsers.

Google

When you say Google, you first think on google search engine. Logical. But there is so much behind this simple white web page with just one search bar. As you probably know you can explore google maps, google videos, google images, use Google Talk and Google mail, but please don’t stop here with google. You can go much further.

In a minute, I’ll tell you how you can speed up your Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer using simple Google program.

Mozilla

Google is only a half of the story here. If you are not using Mozilla Firefox, than consider switching to. Mozilla is proven and reliable. Here is just one feature I much like at Mozilla, which is not available at Internet Explorer. If you close accidentally your browser, you will be able to restore your session. At Internet Explorer you can not do that. Period. And there is more cool Mozilla features, but let’s focus on the topic.

Here is where you can get the Google Web Accelerator program. Just watch the video. And pay attention on video topic, because you will not be able to play youtube, rever or google videos if you don’t disable in that particular moment.

Get this: Google Web accelerator

Bottom line is that you should not expect miracle, but it will make the difference and make your Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer faster.

It is not working at Firefox 3.

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Implicating Adsense in the post

April 14, 2008

I found a great video on tubetorial site explaining how to implicate Adsense in the posts, using Adsense Deluxe plugin.

Its a great plugin which enable displaying Google or Yahoo Adsense integrated in text post, instead of sidebar or header.

If your focus is on Adsense advertising this is the excellent way to display ads directly to the posts.

So here is the link to watch short video on tubetorial.

And if you want to find more great plugins, you can read my post more-than-10-great-wordpress-plugins.

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More than 10 Great WordPress Plugins

April 9, 2008

The following article is showing the list of WordPress plugins that will help you have a better experience with your blog. Most of these are must have plugins for WordPress.
Besides Akismet, which is automatically installed on WordPress, here are the plugins I found useful:

All-in-one-seo-pack – Plugin for Search Engine Optimization

Google xml Sitemaps -The Google Sitemap Plugin automagically pings Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search at regular intervals, notifying them of new content and/or changes to your site.

Optimal Title – optimize your post titles for search engines

Smart ping – Protects you from over pinging. When you edit your post, it prevent pinging so you are proteced from being considered as spammer

Another WordPress meta plugin - This plugin allows you to specify META information, that is keywords and descriptions, for your posts and pages. Additional META keywords are derived from your categories.)

“What Would Seth Godin Do?” – This plugin will definitely help you get more RSS subscribers! It’s called “What Would Seth Godin Do“

WP-Contact Form – Great contact form plugin with security question. Here is an example on my contact page.

Darren’s Related Posts plugin or Wasabi Related Entries – As your blog grows you will certainly like to have one of these plugins which will help you to detain your readers on the blog, by showing related posts at the end of your post.

ADD This- for social bookmarking
Favicon manager – manage favicon image.

For tagging:

UltimteTagWarrior – for tagging

Tag sugest Thing - Tag Suggest Thing uses the Yahoo! term extraction API to find tags to suggest.

Embedded Tag Thing - To display a word in a post as a tag, wrap it in markup (with square brackets!)

For ads:

Adsense-Deluxe – Place Google AdSense ads inside your WordPress Posts

Ad Rotator – Rotate adsense, and any other kind of ad, graphic, etc. wherever you place the code

MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad - displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog

For translation:

Global Translator - translates a blog in fourteen different languages. Hmm, its not so accurate translation, but you may want to have this for your blog.

It never hurts to be well informed with the latest on WordPress plugins and you can always explore more in this area, because you want to plug in your blog to higher level!

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Technorati-Free Traffic Resource

March 3, 2008

Technorati may be called “Search Engine” for blogs. Today, according to Alexa.com (company witch provides sites traffic information), Technorati has a traffic rank of 435. That means that Technorati, from millions sites in the world, is 435th in driving the traffic.

On internet, every second, has been added at least one blog. And according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second. And Techorati is currently tracking 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

You certainly want to submit your blog to Technorati. I just done that. Here is how it goes:

Go to Technorati.com
In the upper right side of the screen click on “Join”
here you know what to do… (just fill your information), and click on “Join”
You are now the member of Techorati (Your username should now show up near search box in navigation bar)

Lets see how to submit the blog:

Click on the “Front page” button in the navigation bar
On the right side of the page find “claim your blog now“, or just press “control F” on your keyboard and type “Claim your blog now” ….then click there
Enter your blog’s url in the box and click “Begin Claim”
Then there are two options : Quick claim and Post Claim (I choose Post Claim)
Just follow the instructions to complete it

When you finish, it should look like this: My Technorati Profile

Ok, that’s it. But now i want to ping it, and that means to apply my post to Technorati. And that can be automated. How to do that? Just click HERE and follow the instructions!

Also click here to read more about Technorati tagging and RSS