Imagine this – you are working from a public computer and need to login to your WordPress blog for urgent reasons. You don’t trust the public computer on the internet parlor because there are chances that the system administrator has installed a keylogger program for tracking keystrokes, user names and passwods. You may use the [...]
Whatever algorithm or methods are put forward, nobody can ever stop spam. Not in comments, not in email, not in social sites and neither in search engines.
The number of spammy websites are increasing every other day and it will continue to increase in the future too. They plagiarize your content, steal your images, post duplicate content from other sites, forums, newsgroups and so on.
Google Translate is certainly the best online translation tools and provides fairly accurate translation of your blog’s articles. Visitors and readers from non English speaking countries can use the translation widget and read your site’s articles in their own language.
Whenever you publish a post or page in a WordPress blog, a short URL of the post is created in the form of http://www.domain.com/?p=2314, where 2314 is the unique ID of the blog post or page. This short link feature is handy, when you want to share your post on social networking websites e.g Facebook, [...]
There is no end to this long run debate among bloggers. Which is more influential – Social Media or Search ? Which medium of traffic converts the most and whether social media links have any significant influence on search ranks and search traffic ? After blogging around for two years, I have arrived to the [...]
The Shared User Wordpress plugin checks whether the email addresses of your blog authors appears in the Gawker’s hacked list. If a match is found, you are shown an option to reset their passwords. If no match is found, nothing is returned which means none of the email addresses of your blog authors are present in that deadly list.
There are different ways to backup your WordPress blog. The most common way to backup your WordPress blog is to download all the files using an FTP client like Filezilla. Then go to the phpmyadmin panel of your hosting account and export the SQL database associated with the blog. Then there are these online backup [...]
Does bad grammar really matter in the success of your product, service, website or a blog? Nicole from the Microsoft Advertising website says “Yes, bad grammar really hurts your business, blog or service. Customers are always looking for ways to decide between advertisers and products. Some customers may go through the effort of researching products [...]
G.A.S.P is a brilliant plugin which can be used to prevent spam comments on your Wordpress blog. The plugin uses a checkbox to detect whether the comment was posted by a human or by a spam bot, can be used as an alternative of Akismet
Here is a simple Wordpress plugin which will let you host some files of your Wordpress blog to your Dropbox account, thus saving you bandwidth and increasing your site’s loading time.
If your blog is hosted on Wordpress and you want to test different headlines for your blog posts, here is a plugin worth installing.
The loading time of your website is very important for two reasons. First, web users have a very short attention span and if your site takes a long time to load – visitors might close the browser tab and go to other sources. Second, the search engines now consider page loading time as one of [...]
James, who writes a wonderful blog on writing tips, blogging and SEO shares a very insightful thought. Do short posts offer much value? Should a blogger write detailed blog posts that spread over a thousand words or should they concentrate on writing short stories that saves the reader’s time? According to James, long articles are [...]
When writing blog posts in WordPress default editor, often you would link to an external site or to the internal pages of your blog. Some of them are do follow links and you would want to flow pagerank or Google juice to the external site. But in some situations, you may want to add a [...]
Rand Fishkin has a handy list of common SEO mistakes which one should avoid. It doesn’t matter whether your website is a popular brand or you are just starting out, Rand shares some thoughtful SEO tips. My favorites: Bad Navigation: You want to impress your visitors with catchy site navigation built with Flash but forget [...]