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How to change your wordpress permalink without losing traffic

April 21, 2009

When I launched Shoutmeloud , I never considered SEO as big thing and with the time I realized that optimizing your blog for SEO gives you better result in search engines. You can read about it here My strategy to make shoutmeloud search engine friendly Initially I was using permalink as /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html which is not at all said to be the best permalink option for SEO. so the only option which I was left with ...

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Revision Control Plugin : Limit Posts Revisions in WordPress

April 19, 2009

Revision control is a useful WordPress plugin for putting a limit in WordPress post revisions. This WordPress limit posts revision plugin is very useful for bloggers to keep their blog Db optimized. Post revision is one of very useful feature from WordPress. This feature keeps old post revision of your blog post. This is very useful feature to restore your post to last saved version. (Last edited version). Though despite of his useful feature, if ...

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Guide to Install WordPress on Dreamhost

April 18, 2009

When I started my Blogging career, Dreamhost was very first choice that I opted for. Here I will be sharing a step by step guide for newbie to get start with WordPress on Dreamhost. Before, we move ahead, I will let you know the reason why I opted for Dreamhost: It’s compatible with Latest WordPress It’s cheap Offer free domain I remember paying $69 for one year hosting + free domain name with 1 year ...

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Check how fast your blog is with pingdom and iwebtool

April 18, 2009

Few days back I was using monezine wordpress theme, I loved monezine theme because of its smart ad placement and magazine style theme , but there was one thing which I never like about monezine was its load time. This was a big reason that I bought thesis. When I tested my blog load time with monezine wordpress theme, it was almost 30s , which is way behind the standard load time of any blog. ...

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Add PHP code to your wordpress sidebar using Samsarin PHP Widget

April 17, 2009

I have already covered a topic on How to add adsense code to wordpress sidebar without any plugin. Though wordpress sidebar widget allow us to add HTML and Text code only. It does not support php code. Though if you want to show some widget which use php code, you can use Samsarin PHP widget plugin, which add an option to add PHP widget in your sidebar. Download the Samsarin PHP widget wordpress plugin from ...

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Best Related posts WordPress plugin: YARPP

April 16, 2009

Related posts on any blog is very useful from readers and bounce rate point of view. A related post plugin, shows the most closely related post to the topic, your reader is reading. Different WordPress plugins uses different approach for showing relatedness and one of the best WordPress plugin which I have found to show related post is YARPP a.k.a Yet another related post plugin. This plugin uses many factors to show related posts and ...