Posts Tagged wordpress

Ping over 20 top search engines in less than 1 second

Do you know when search engines pick up on your blog updates? What if I told you that there is a way to manually ping over 20 top search engines in less than 1 second? Would you believe me?

Welcome to Ping-O-Matic! A free service by the WordPress Foundation, this tool lets you ping your selected [...]

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The MMO ebook of all MMO ebooks

With so many blog “experts” out there, how can you tell the difference between really useful information and dated, irrelevant hype?

There are some of us who have been blogging or running our own sites for years and the best endorsement is what other bloggers have to say about our sites, our [...]

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The 5 bestest features of WordPress 2.9

Alright, WordPress 2.9 Carmen was released over the weekend and it seems like every other blogger is “announcing” its release. Looks like WP gave us an early Christmas present.

True, WP 2.9 has been anticipated for some time now and the laundry list of features is actually pretty long. However, many of them are just minor [...]

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WordPress 2.8.6 released

Wow, WordPress 2.8.5 was released only three short weeks ago. So what’s the deal?

Well, it looks like just another “recommended” security release that addresses two issues:

Security problem for logged in users with posting privileges. If you are the only author and/or really trust all other authors, this doesn’t really affect you.
Problem with sanitizing uploaded file [...]

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NoFollow vs. DoFollow: Who wins?

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If you’ve been following along, you should know by now that leaving comments on other blogs can boost your traffic. Obviously, it can help directly by others seeing your comment and clicking on your link to arrive at your site. But what about an indirect benefit?

Susan made a comment yesterday on my link building article [...]

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WordPress 2.8.5 released

With the highly anticipated WordPress 2.9 in a few weeks, WordPress 2.8.5 was released to fill some security holes in the interim. They call this a “hardening release” and although it’s not mandatory, it’s recommended.

What they highlight for the 2.8.5 release are:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of [...]

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How to start a WordPress blog

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I don’t consider the topics I write “advanced” but as it turns out, I need to reach back to the fundamentals once in a while. Apparently, there is so much info on the web on SEO and making money, a lot of basics get lost — like actually creating a blog!

Look, I get it, the [...]

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