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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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So I’ve been really slacking on the blog posts lately. If you check out my archives, you’ll see that it’s been about 2 posts per month (except for a few months where I’d do 5 or 6). That’s just not enough posting. Part of the reason that it’s hard to post is trying to think [...]
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I’ve been making and improving websites for people for almost five years now. And I’m always looking patterns that make webmasters successful over time. Finally, I think I’ve found one such pattern. The Web is a Marketplace Before we dive into the pattern that makes a website successful, let’s play a little game: Let’s think [...]
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Thanks a lot to Jonathan Boettcher who was kind enough to write this guest post. Jonathan has an awesome blog and a really interesting take on marketing online. Enjoy his guest post below and make sure to check his site out! Lately I’ve been doing a lot of testing with landing pages, and some interesting [...]
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Well what a great idea the folks at WordPress(/automattic) have come up with. It’s called VaultPress. Let’s take a step back for a sec. Crap happens. And when your blog gets hacked you don’t want to be wishing that you’d been making backups. Not everyone that uses WordPress is a WordPress consultant and shouldn’t be [...]
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You’d be amazed how many 404 errors even the best websites have. Short of having an amazing 404 page, the best quick fix is to redirect your 404 errors to your home page. (And before the technical folks jump in and say all the reasons why a it’s a bad idea to redirect 404 errors [...]
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For Headway users who have been waiting for a new version or people looking at buying Headway but wanted it to mature a bit more… your wait is over. The developer behind Headway has released Headway 1.6. From the email I received, it seems as though there were some bug issues with the previous version [...]
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SEO for WordPress will never be the same with Brian Clark’s new ScribeSEO plugin. This plugin has just launched, so if you haven’t heard of it you really have to check it out now. The brains behind Thesis Theme and Copyblogger is the founder of this new plugin, so you know it’s going to be [...]
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Learn how to use Google Alerts to monitor your website for hidden hacks. This 5 minute video could save you weeks of agony. Have you heard the news about link injections in websites, especially WordPress, lately? If not, let me tell you a bit about it. There is a very common worm going around the [...]
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The hardest part of making code for WordPress is that the code is always changing. It can be hard to keep your plugins current with WordPress because code you wrote one day will change next month when the new version of WP comes out. This is also true of The Thesis Theme because the folks [...]
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Maybe I’m just used to Website Grader always giving me a great score, but I was bummed when I ran my website through WooRank today to get a measly 56.7 WooRank. Even though I have no idea what constitutes a WooRank or even how good 56.7 is (is there some kind of bell curve?) well… [...]
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Did you know… People can see pages on your site that were up months ago without you knowing? When you delete a page from your site, it can still be seen for months? People can look through your site without showing up in your analytics? This is all possible through the magic of Google’s caching [...]
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I got a new mac mini about this time last month. (It’s great by the way). The new computer finally meant I could download Google’s new browser, Chrome (which is also great btw). Having a new computer and browser means that all of my old bookmarks and such were thrown to the wind and I [...]
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SEO for WordPress will never be the same with Brian Clark’s new ScribeSEO plugin. This plugin has just launched, so if you haven’t heard of it you really have to check it out now. The brains behind Thesis Theme and Copyblogger is the founder of this new plugin, so you know it’s going to be [...]
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