Once again the spammers and link hunters are ruining things for the rest of us. This blog has been dofollow since I started it back in 2008, but these days it seems that spammers are getting smarter with their crafty comments and I have had an influx of what I call “drive by” commenters, those that only comment once to get some link juice for their keywords and mostly the …

Tags: Blogging, Do Follow Comment Policy

Jim one of my readers emailed me with a great question, so I thought I would turn this into a blog post, as the question has come up before.
Basically the question is, how to change permalink structure sitewide on WordPress blogs and still retain rankins, PR and backlinks?

As discussed in Website Traffic That Converts, having proper permalink structures, which are effective for SEO is very important, and should be one …

Tags: Blog Tools, Blogging, Wordpress Plugins

Good news for those that have been wanting to convert their pages to posts on WordPress blogs, as there is now a free plugin to do just that. Many times bloggers organize their blogs in various ways, and using pages as well as posts is a great way to achieve a good hierarchy and navigation on the site, but, pages on WordPress are not as well optimized as post pages …

Tags: Blog Tools, Convert Pages to Posts on Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins

A blogger I know was hacked today, and it was pretty scary because I went to the blog and some nasty Malware tried to install on my computer, luckily, my PC is like a fortress and precluded the Rogue Spyware (full of rootkits and Trojans) from downloading, but still I spent some time scanning and making sure I was not infected which was annoying to say the least, I HATE …

Tags: Prevent Hacking of Wordpress, Secure Wordpress, Wordpress Security

Comment Luv is a nifty WordPress plugin that parses the commenters blog posts and places them in the comment. It is a fantastic way to network with other bloggers and build traffic and relationships with new readers.
If you write great content and titles and comment on Comment Luv blogs then you will surely attract new readers to your blog. Also implementing Comment Luv on your own blogs is a great …

Tags: Blog Promotion, Blogging, Comment Luv Blogs, Wordpress Plugins