- Let’s Meet at SXSW Interactive
Contact me if you are going to be at SXSW Interactive this week in Austin, Texas. I’d love to meet any readers or WordPress lovers!
- How to Add Your Face Next to Your Blog in Google
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 [...]
- How to Eliminate Spam When You Can’t Use Akismet
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 [...]
- Javascript Conditional Code for Conversion Tracking in Google Adwords
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 [...]
- WordPress Comment Spam: How to get less comment spam on your WP Blog
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 [...]