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WordPress Ping List for Better WordPress SEO

December 25, 2012

WordPress ping list are very useful to extend your blog reach to major search engines. We all know that blog has a big advantage over static/dynamic sites in the form of Ping. If you are not aware of pinging feature of WordPress, then here are my 2 cents for you. When ever you publish, edit or modify a post, WordPress sends ping to all the Ping services which is listed under your ping update service. ...

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How BlogSpot Users can Prepare for WordPress Migration

December 20, 2012

BlogSpot is one of the best Blogging platform to start your Blogging career, as it’s free and you don’t have to pay for anything like hosting images or for premium plugins and tons of free themes are out there. Though, over the time when you get more accustomed with Blogging, you would realize BlogSpot is not the most ideal option for your Blog future for many reasons: You have less control over SEO of your blog. ...

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WordPress is Not SEO Friendly & How to Fix it?

December 19, 2012

How many times you have read about WordPress is one of the best blogging platform and upcoming CMS platform. And one of the reason is WordPress offers best possible SEO options. Though, this is completely untrue and let me clear it out: WordPress is not SEO friendly. Not atleast the default WordPress installation. Like many others if you also believe, that your stock installation of WordPress without making any changes will get you great search ...

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WordPress Trackback Spam : New method of Spamming

December 18, 2012

Spam comments are nothing new and we get it all the time. Thanks to plugins like Akismet, Gasp and many others which help us to fight against comment spam. Though, comment spam is usually done to get additional backlinks. Now, many of you who are not aware of Pingback or Trackback spam, this article is for those. How many of times you get new notification for an article linked to you? Usually WordPress shows all ...

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How to Install WordPress Offline using XAMPP

December 6, 2012

Every Self-hosted WordPress user wonders “If there was a way via which WordPress could be installed offline and all the themes could be tested and corrected as per the requirements offline?” Yes! of course there are hundreds of ways to do this, but most of them are time-consuming and aren’t user friendly and it takes the users nerve to set up WordPress offline. We have already looked into two other ways to use WordPress offline, and ...

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A DIY Guide for WordPress Blog SEO

November 20, 2012

Starting with a Blog is fun and it’s more fun when you are starting without any other materialistic motive such as money or fame, as in such scenario you Blog only for passion and you don’t care about many essential factors like Blog design, SEO and many other factors. But if you are like me who is Blogging as a career choice, it will become a serious work for you and you have to take care of all vital ...

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Does Using Image Sliders Reduce Conversions On A WordPress Site?

November 10, 2012

Image Sliders are an incredibly popular way of displaying content on WordPress homepages. In recent years, it’s been hard to find a WordPress site, especially an eCommerce site, that doesn’t have an image slider or carousel in a prominent position. They are a convenient way of displaying information—offers or products—in a dynamic and visually interesting way, and adhere to the (somewhat dubious) rule that most content should be above the “fold”. As an alternative to ...

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Using the Menus in WordPress- A usability Guide

November 7, 2012

Summary: This is an article that helps WordPress users to identify and understand how to add WordPress menus to our website. It gives detailed instructions regarding customizing menus, defining them, adding items to it and finally adding the custom menu to the site. WordPress is one of the most popular content management system of the day today. More and more from every walk of life is beginning to rely on the internet for their regular ...

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