Website & Blog Basics

How To Let Your Readers Promote Your Blog Posts For You Using A Tell A Friend Script

September 16, 2011

Recommendations by ‘word of mouth’ are extremely valuable for any business so why not make it easy for your blog or website readers to spread the word? Whilst your readers are perfectly capable of cutting & pasting your URL into an email, instead there is a great wordpress plugin called ‘wp-email‘ which adds a clickable [...]

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Replacing Admin As Your Main WordPress User Login

February 15, 2011

When you first load the wordpress software onto your domain, unless you specify otherwise, the default login user name will be set to ‘admin’. From a security perspective, this weakens the security of your blog as it is one less piece of information for a hacker to crack in order to gain access. I always [...]

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How To Prevent People From Copying Your Blog Content And Images

June 18, 2010

I recently stumbled across a blog where someone had copied a couple of images that I had personally taken and used them in their own site. This led me to investigate what options there are available to me to protect my blog to prevent someone from copying images from any of my sites again. I [...]

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Managing Your Sidebar Widget Content With The Widget Logic Plugin

June 15, 2010

Recently, I came across a problem I needed to solve on a client’s wordpress blog. How do I get different content to appear in the sidebar against different pages or posts? Let me explain further. I have a page which details a weekend training course. On the main home page, I have an advert for [...]

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Socrates WordPress Theme Review

May 31, 2010

A new wordpress theme has just been released called Socrates – if you are an affiliate marketer, regularly creating niche specific blogs, then you need to check it out NOW ! Created by Joel Comm & Dan Nickerson, it gives you the ability to create a good looking, fully customised, highly effective and fully monitized [...]

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How To Search For And Buy A Domain Name

May 17, 2010

Are you thinking about creating a website or blog but don’t know where to start ? First of all you need to get a domain name.  A domain name is like your post code, it is the location that people go to to view your website or blog. It can also be referred to as [...]

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How To Avoid Trademark Infringement When Choosing a Domain Name

May 10, 2010

First of all let’s spell out what a trademark actually is: ‘A trademark or trade mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its [...]

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How To Use Image Tags & Image Code To Make Images Search Engine Friendly

April 22, 2010

Most blogging packages, themes and standard website packages generally make it easy to add images to your post or site static pages. An image is an excellent way of emphasising or re-enforcing something you have written visually. Search Engines however, cannot ‘read’ an image, so there are 3 things we should do to make our [...]

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What is a Title Tag and why is it so important to use it properly for Search Engine Ranking?

April 16, 2010

A ‘title tag’ is simply the name you give to each of your website pages or blog posts. It tells the reader and the search engines what topic your page or post is about & can be seen at the very top of your web browser’s screen (see example image below). Title tags are one [...]

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