2010

How to Manually Insert the WordPress Sociable Plugin into your Theme

November 5, 2010

It took me forever to find this code which allows you to manually insert the Sociable Plugin for WordPress directly into your theme.  This helps when you want to place the plugin in a place that isn’t one of the options in the Sociable settings panel. Hope that helps!  And if you need more info [...]

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Google Review Stars in Search Results

November 1, 2010

I’ve started noticing stars in my Google Results on reviewed places, products, etc.  They look like this: Or for a place, they look like this: It seems obvious that these would improve click-thru rates on a search result, so I went on a little search to find out how to include these on my sites. [...]

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How to Hide Your Password Protected WordPress Posts from Google

October 29, 2010

Do you have password protected pages or posts in WordPress that you’d rather not have Google indexing? Well worry no longer! If you add this code to your header.php file, it will tell Google not to index your password-protected content: Thanks and enjoy!

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Did you give it a “College Try”?

October 18, 2010

One of the most useful things I learned in High School came from an English Teacher who loved to ask, “Did you give it a college try?”. Anytime I approached her with a problem that started with… “I tried X but…” I was almost guaranteed to get her motto: “Did you give it a college [...]

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Social Media vs. SEO

September 23, 2010

I’m really pleased to bring you the following Q&A with Alex Becker of Highly Relevant.  Alex is a very smart and capable guy who I would trust with the success of your business online. 1. What is your opinion of lead gen with Social Media? What do you think the future holds for Social Media? [...]

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“Like Whistling Past The Grave” or Using System Thinking instead of Blame

September 22, 2010

A wonderful article in Slate by the Astronaut-Turned-Patient Safety Expert talks about the importance of improving your system (or in my mind your website) instead of blaming isolated incidents. “When I got into healthcare, I felt like I’d stepped into an entirely different world. It was all about, “Let’s figure out who screwed up and [...]

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Alex Becker Asks me Some Questions…

September 21, 2010

Friend and colleague Alex Becker was kind enough to post a few questions he and I talked about recently.  Here’s an excerpt: Alex: What are the most common mistakes people make with their WP blog? Brad: I think you can break this up into 2 parts, the Technical side and the Content side. From a content [...]

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Jefferson’s Letter To Peter Carr

September 19, 2010

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose, that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you. Whenever you [...]

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The role of a homepage…

September 9, 2010

I just watched a very interesting webinar about how to improve your Home Page. Read some gems from that webinar in this post.

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The One-Minute SEO Plan

September 1, 2010

Premise: There are plenty of times when you’d want to tell somehow how they can improve the Search Engine rankings of their site quickly. I’ve found that with most lay-people, you have about one minute before their eyes gloss over. So below is my attempt at giving someone the best tips for SEO that can [...]

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5 Surprising Lessons Learned by User Testing

August 30, 2010

‘It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear.’ -Frank Luntz Last week they were running a deal at AppSumo that made the cost of user testing low enough that it would be silly not to try it.  So I decided to give it a go and I learned a lot about how people use [...]

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Awesome .htaccess Trick for Redirecting All Traffic When Working on a Site

August 20, 2010

I usually don’t do posts that include code, but this trick it just too cool. The code below is for your .htaccess file.  You would want to use this whenever you are working on a site and you want to redirect the site elsewhere while you are working on it. So, in this case we [...]

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7 Things I Learned from Attending the Affiliate Summit East Conference.

August 18, 2010

Affiliate Summit East is a conference for affiliate marketing. It took place in New York City over the last few days. My two business partners and I took some days off from our day jobs and headed to the conference to strike some deals and learn some tricks that we hoped would improve our business [...]

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What WordPress Problem Do You Have?

August 12, 2010

Today marks the launch of a refined and updated WordPress Consulting Service specially tailored to quickly and painlessly answer your questions.  You can see more about that service here. I’ve been doing phone consults with folks for a couple of years now, and have figured out what most people want is really down to earth [...]

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Two Cool New Plugins

July 26, 2010

Late last week I was approached by Seth Shoultes about a new plugin he made for E-Junkie.  The plugin allows a wordpress user to quickly and easily add an E-Junkie shopping cart to their website.  I thought the plugin was really cool and helpful and figured you guys might want to know about it. Then [...]

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What is a Child Theme in WordPress?

July 15, 2010

As part of our 30 Days of WordPress Par-Tay, we are moving right along to the next question by Christina.  Christina’s question about Child Themes is a great one, specifically with the recent flare-up of interest in proprietary themes in the WordPress Community. Christina asks: Some premium WordPress themes use child themes, and some just seem to [...]

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Check out MarketingExperiments.com

July 9, 2010

In deciding what direction to take WordPress Landing Pages and how to help the folks out that are members of that community, I try to stay on top of developments in the online marketing world.  But there is so much hype and crap out there that sifting through it can be very tough.  However, I’ve [...]

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How to add a Hacker News Upvote widget to your WordPress Site

July 7, 2010

First of all, I’d like to thank Ryan W. for his help in showing me how to do this.  Considering he has had articles on the front page of HN for the last two days in a row, I’m thinking this little widget helps get those HN upvotes ‘on the reg’. Nothing will help get [...]

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How to Use WordPress for an eCommerce Store

July 6, 2010

Next up in our 30 Days of WordPress world series, we have Kai asking about using WordPress for an ecommerce store. Kai’s Question I’m curious about using WordPress as an e-commerce store. Are there e-commerce plugins out there other than WP e-Commerce? Outside of SEO and analytics, what areas do you recommend focusing on for [...]

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How to Customize Your WordPress Installation Package

July 2, 2010

For the 3rd answer in my 30 Days of WordPress extravaganza, we are taking a look at Robert’s question about customizing your WordPress installation package at the time of installation. Robert Asks How can I customize the blogs created by WordPress 3.0 so that when they install they have the theme, plugins and settings all [...]

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