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How to Add Your Face Next to Your Blog in Google

February 12, 2012

Have you noticed lately that sometimes the author’s face will show next to a blog post?  This post will show you how you can have your own lovely face show next to your website or blog! We’ve talked about the importance of Click-Thru Rate in the SERPS and Rich Snippets in SEO before, but this is the [...]

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How to Eliminate Spam When You Can’t Use Akismet

February 12, 2012

We are lucky in the US that we are able to use Akismet to help cut down on comment spam and contact form spam.  Yesterday, I had an email exchange with a German citizen who isn’t able to use Akismet because of German privacy laws [Correction: This is not against German law, but is a sticky [...]

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Javascript Conditional Code for Conversion Tracking in Google Adwords

January 16, 2012

I was working with a Squarespace site recently and needed to put some tracking code on the success page after a contact form. I’m not as familiar with SquareSpace as WordPress and had to write some javascript code to run on a contact form tracking page.  Since no PHP was available to write, Eric and [...]

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WordPress Comment Spam: How to get less comment spam on your WP Blog

January 15, 2012

Without the proper protection, comment spam is an absolute nightmare in WordPress.  Fortunately, the proper protections are very easy to come by. As a primer, comment spam is any comment left on your blog that adds nothing to the conversation and was likely mass posted.  These comments sometimes look like: Great post!  This makes me [...]

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SEO Tip: How To Recover From Panda

September 30, 2011

There is a lot of of advice about recovering from Panda, but I felt like this advice from Mike Gordon, the Toronto SEO Guy, was the most elegant:

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Grab your latest tweet with PHP without File_Get_Contents()

February 28, 2011

Updated Code Here! Many thanks to Nick Heer and his code for using php to pull your most recent tweet. Unfortunately my host does not all File_Got_Contents() so that left me with curl:

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Protecting Contact Form 7 from Spam

January 17, 2011

Contact Form 7 is my favorite free WordPress plugin for making (you guessed it…) Contact Forms.  It’s a very popular plugin, and that means that spammers have decided it’s worth their hassle to write some scripts to spam you through Contact Form 7. Assuming your viagra need are sufficiently filled, you won’t be needing to [...]

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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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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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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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