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WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus Hidden Settings

October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The other day, I was playing around with the new WordPress menus that came with version 3.0 and up; I created a new menu and throwed some pages and posts in the same menu, which was a cool and an easy task. I figure out that  you can create a custom link with whatever you like in it, so I added all my social networks in a sub-menu, which was an easy task too, until I find out that when you click one of this external links on the menu, it opened on the same page, and since I didn’t want my visitors to leave my blog but to open the external link in a new window, it got me thinking that this was worthless. I started looking into the code which took me a lot of time and no results, then I started browsing the web and stumble upon a thread at wordpress.org that had the answer to my problem. While reading it, I felt so stupid because the answer was just standing in front of me all this time. I found out that day that WordPress is becoming extremely friendly and easy to manipulate, We … [Read more...]

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Figthing SPAM with Akismet for FREE

October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Akismet or Automattic Kismet is a spam filtering service. It attempts to filter spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings. The filter works by combining information about spam captured on all participating blogs, and then using those spam rules to block future spam. It is an Incredible tool to use if you have a WordPress Blog or Site. I receive about 10 to 15 spam comments daily, if those add up at the end of the month I will end up with 450 or so spam comments, Akismet will  handle this for you in a very efficient way. But there has been some controversy on how AKISMET started charging for its service, when they use to be free. Most people will go and try to create an account, but will get the surprise of a paid service. Well let me show you how you can get it for free. First you need to create an account at http://akismet.com/ Then you need to select a package, which now is a little confusing since every package has a paid amount, but don’t you worry , you … [Read more...]

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Giving an article a private members only feature

October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Do you want certain articles from your Wordpress Blog to be accessed only by logged-in members? You don't have to install a plugin to turn your Wordpress Blog into a membership site, you just have to unlock some features that Wordpress comes with out of the box, but many users simply doesn't know about. You can use this feature for: Online education centers where registered students can access their learning material Share download links or information for member only visitors A place to gather ideas for a project restricted to team members only. Valuable Information worth sharing to subscribers You can password protect it so that only the users that are logged in to your blog are allowed the access to your post. This option is available on your ‘add new post’ under the publish box. You have to click on ‘edit’ next to ‘visibility public’, change the settings and add a password if you want it protected and then click publish. Giving an article a … [Read more...]

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4 must-have rules Before creating a LandingPage

October 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Would you like your Landing Page to look amazing by using the latest BuzzSpeak words and pointing out why you think your product is the best or would you like to get results? Results!! Ofcourse. Creating a Landing Page is all about the results and conversions, is about how your audience perceives your product, because at the end is them who are going to buy it not you. The first thing you have to remember is that you have to respect your audience by telling them your story straight, You can achieve this by following  this simple rules to communicate effectibly with them: SIMPLICITY: If you want your audience to buy what you have  for sale on your landing page, do not  make them learn a new language. Because when people feel they are not smart enough to understand what you are offering them, they feel they are not smart enough to do buy your product or service. BRILLIANCE: When you offer a product or service that will bring a great solution to your client, always remember … [Read more...]

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Define your Keyword Strategy

October 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
How to setup a keyword strategy before starting a blog

First of all , what is a Keyword? Well a keyword is a word or phrase a person enters in a search engine like Google, Yahoo or Bing. You must learn how to develop a Keyword Strategy before starting your blog or website, by following this simple rules, and chances are you are going to attract a lot of visitors from the start by ranking high with your predifine keywords. More and more consumers are finding online business through search engines. These companies can be found through their keywords. Fortunately, you can optimize your blog or site around the keywords that relate to your business. This increases the opportunities for people to discover your blog or site by searching with those keywords, which drives more and better quality leads for your business. Even if you do not know exactly which keywords will get the best people to find your business, there are ways to determine the popularity and competitiveness of some keywords, like Google Adwords Tools, where you can also … [Read more...]

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Choosing Powerful Keywords

October 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Choosing Powerful Keywords

When you go to a search engine and try to find something, you type in a word,or several words, and click the Search button. The search engine then looks in its index for those words. Suppose that you used the words Blog Setup. Generally speaking, the search engine will look for various things: Pages that contain the exact phrase Blog Setup Pages that don’t have the phrase Blog Setup, but do have the words Blog and Setup in close proximity Pages that have the words Blog and Setup somewhere, though not necessarily close together Pages with word stems; for instance, pages with the word Blog and the word Setup somewhere in the page Pages that have links pointing to them, in which the link text contains the phrase Blog  Setup Pages with links pointing to them with the link text containing the words Blog and Setup, although not together The process is actually a lot more complicated than this. The search engine doesn’t necessarily show pages in the order I just listed, … [Read more...]

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Installing WordPress the D.U.D.E. way

June 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Why WordPress, well just because is one of the best [tooltip text="Content Management Systems"] CMS [/tooltip] out there, apart from being easy to use and keep up, is well-known for its beauty and cleanliness. We have tried other CMS’s like Drupal and Joomla and let me tell you, nothing compares to WordPress, I think it's because its founder Matt Mullenweg is all about Jazz and Poetry and that just reflects in the code. We love WordPress so that's all you are going to hear from us and  we will teach you how to use it from head to toe. So let's get to work, first we assume you already have a Domain and a web hosting, and you are ready to install WordPress if you still haven't I recommend taking a look at Before you buy a Domain Download | Upload  | Database | Execute D.U.D.E. Download First you have to download the WordPress files from here WORDPRESS DOWNLOAD , this link will always show the latest version of WordPress, so you can come back anytime to download it. If you … [Read more...]

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What are you waiting | Start a blog today

June 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Consider this, about 70 million blogs existed in 2005 a 6% of the U.S. population had created a blog and 16% of the population reads blogs, now as of February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence, 13% of the U.S. population. I t has become one of the most popular way to make money from the comfort of your home or the nearest Starbucks. As for creating a blog, despite the millions who have already started one, millions more don´t know where to begin. You may hear its easy, but nothing is easy without you aiming to the right direction. It's no to late to start a blog, you are just in time, it's all about your uniqueness, you see a blog is the one place you can be yourself and earn money from it. It doesn't matter if you are an expert on shaving, just look at this guy http://www.shavingstuff.com/ he has a page rank 5 , get tones of visits just talking about razors, shaving, and facial hair… First of all, you should know that  a blog is a web site. Don’t let … [Read more...]

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HOW DO I START A BLOG

June 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Blogging is no longer only for the techno geek if you use wordpress. Wordpress has made it so simple that anyone can create a blog using it. Wordpress has so many options that it is possible to make a unique web log without having to know anything about the codes that are working behind the whole process. All the background stuff has been done by the wordpress programmers. Wordpress blog services let you start your blog easily and quickly, but don’t let that distract you from going along a planned strategy; you should at least know the outcome that you want, so that you can plan accordingly. Starting a blog with the correct strategy is very necessary if you don’t want your blog to end as one of the abandoned ones. POINTS TO BE KEPT IN MIND WHILE CREATING YOUR BLOG Decide on the type of blog you want and the target niche. Knowing your niche will help you to use your blog to communicate specifically about that topic. Create your strategy keeping in mind … [Read more...]

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