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How to Show Thumbnail for Partial feed in WordPress

August 25, 2011

In the past I talked a lot about Partial feed (Summery feed) and why you should have Partial feed. As it is, if you have read why images are important for blog, you would understand that it helps in increasing CTR. Though when you convert your complete feed into Partial feed, you will notice that Feedburner, Google reader, Facebook and other services won’t show any image for post. Specially after implementing partial feed, I noticed ...

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How to Style BlockQuote With CSS for BlogSpot and WordPress

August 23, 2011

As the title of the article suggests, we’ll be using :before and :after attributes in defining our CSS. However, the actual credit goes to the “content” property which helps us to achieve cool effects via CSS. So, in this article, I’ll illustrate the basic usage of content property to add stylish block quotes using CSS. In other words, you’ll be able to add a block quote that appears to have an image but does not. ...

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Optimize WordPress Robots.txt File for SEO

August 19, 2011

This is a guest post by Abby who blogs at TechSpage. If you would like to write for ShoutMeLoud, check our guest posting guidelines. When ever we talk about SEO of Wp blogs, WordPress robots.txt file plays a major role in search engine ranking. It helps to block search engine bots to index and crawl important part of our blog. Though, some time a wrong configured Robots.txt file can let your presence completely go away ...

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WordPress and SEO Go Hand in hand !!

August 16, 2011

The importance of SEO is being realized by many online businesses these days. The best option to drive crowd to your website is organic search engine traffic. But it is not always easy to edit HTML manually and also to manage all the content. That’s why Blogging is evolving every day. All main stream businesses are adding another section call Blog on their site and adding WordPress as a Blogging platform. WordPress is one of ...

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How To Make Entire Block Clickable Using jQuery?

August 3, 2011

I’m sure many web masters out there link various websites on their blog. Some tweak the links with a background color while few keep it simple! What if we make an entire block click-able rather than just the anchor tag present in the block. To better understand about the same, take a look at the “Random Posts” section on the footer of SML. You’ll notice that only the links are click-able but not the entire ...

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How to Disable Right Click on WordPress?

August 1, 2011

Couple of days back one of my client contacted me and asked me to disable right click on his site. When I asked him the reasons, he told me he is tired of cope paste bloggers. I informed him about plagiarism and how he can file DMCA against them. Or is these blogs are using auto RSS blogs, you can offer partial feeds instead of complete feed. Though he still wanted to disable right click ...

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How To Display Author Profile Picture On Google Search Engine?

July 27, 2011

It looks attractive to see an author image appear next to post titles with a small snippet on the homepage of a blog (like you see on Shoutmeloud). What if the same happens on Google Search Engine as well? Yes, we can achieve the same effect on Google Search Engine using the Authorship Tool. Just take a look at the following screen shot for better understanding. Isn’t it cool? Well, definitely yes! Why should I ...

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