How to revert back to Technorati links in the Wordpress 2.3 Dashboard

Posted on October 10, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | 12 Comments

Oh how I hate change! If you haven’t upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 yet, you’ll be in for a bit of a surprise! The new Dashboard in Wordpress 2.3 no longer displays incoming links via Technorati, but instead uses Google Blog Search! This would be fine and dandy for me if it still displayed your inbound links from other sites, but it now also displays your OWN posts as incoming links.

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A complete list of anti-plagiarism and content-theft fighting WordPress plugins

Posted on July 24, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | 4 Comments

Earlier, I had written a post that tried to compile a complete list of SEO-related Wordpress plugins and since I found that list to be quite useful for myself, I thought I would write up a list of plugins that you can use to combat plagiarism and spam blogs (splogs).  The reason I’m creating this list is because I am quite new to blogging and in the rat race to find good blog content, optimize the site, and market a blog, I left myself open to all kinds of content stealing attacks and eventually became the victim!

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A complete list of search engine friendly (SEO) WordPress plugins for your Blog

Posted on June 26, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | 11 Comments

After being on WordPress for over four months now, I thought I would compile a quick list of WordPress plugins that I’ve used to optimize my blog for search engines. I have found that most lists out there include a couple of these, so I thought I would try to create a master list of the best SEO plugins for WordPress. These SEO plugins are very useful and actually quite essential if you want your blog to rank well in Google. Most of them require little to no customization and work perfectly right after installation.

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The Best Way to move from Blogger Beta to WordPress

Posted on June 24, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | 5 Comments

This guide is for those people who have finally decided that they want to make the jump from the Blogger platform to the more professional and flexible WordPress platform. In the Blogger vs WordPress battle, there are way too many reasons to move to WordPress for me to list here, but you can read a couple of good posts from some other happy WordPress bloggers here:

1. http://jayajha.wordpress.com/2005/09/27/bloggercom-vs-wordpresscom/ - Gives a good comparison of both blogging platforms with negatives and positives of each.

2. http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/?p=71 - Quite the happy WordPress blogger!

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My first post on WordPress and I’m loving it!

Posted on May 19, 2007 - Filed Under WordPress | Leave a Comment

Holy cow!! I LOVE WORDPRESS! I can’t imagine how I lived for three months on Blogger!! And I joined up on Blogger Beta, I feel bad for anyone who had to use the original Blogger. Nah, I won’t rag on Blogger, it’s a great platform if you are just starting a blog or you’re blogging for fun and don’t care about having a large readership.

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