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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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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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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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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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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 Speed Up Your WordPress Site

July 1, 2010

Wondering how to speed up your WordPress-powered website?  As part of our 30 Days of WordPress fiesta, we are taking a look at Somone’s question about how to speed up her site. From Somone: Once a self-hosted WordPress site gets a decent amount of traffic, the use of plugins and other scripts that run to [...]

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Using WordPress for a Password-Protected Membership Site

June 30, 2010

As the kick-off question for my 30 Days of WordPress Questions, Christina asked a couple of questions.  One of them jumped out at me right away and that’s the question I’ll be answering first. Christina Asked: I’ve stayed away from WordPress because in the past, the CMS didn’t seem to measure up to corporate or [...]

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Got a WordPress Question? Ask it here and get a PR5 link and an answer… all for free!

June 28, 2010

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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The Golden Rule of Marketing is quite simple: Test Everything

April 5, 2010

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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Choosing a Web-Safe Font (In Thesis Theme or on any webpage!)

March 30, 2010

Unless you have a photographic memory or are a typgraphy buff, it can be really hard to remember what a font looks like from memory.  Sometimes you just need to see the font in action to determine which font is going to work best. This week I’ve been really busy making Thesis Theme powered websites [...]

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VaultPress: WordPress’ new security suite is recruiting beta testers

March 30, 2010

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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How to Redirect 404′s to your Home Page in WordPress

March 24, 2010

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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