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Technical Thursday: Manually Inserting Ads into Your Wordpress Theme

Posted by Jonathan
February 19, 2009

Getting ads into your blog is the most important aspect of monetizing your blog. There are countless plugins that attempt to make it easier for you to place your ads into your content. While most of them work, a lot of them don’t do exactly what you want. So, what’s the solution Place your ads [...]

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Wordpress Wednesday: Wordpress Contact form Solutions

Posted by Jonathan
February 18, 2009

In order to help your blog grow, people need to be able contact you quickly and easily. When I first started out, I had a simple contact form that quickly got deluged with Spammers submitting bogus information, filling up my e-mail box.
I discovered the Wordpress Plugin Secure Contact and used that for the last year. [...]

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When Not To Use Wordpress as a CMS

Posted by Jonathan
February 5, 2009

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Wordpress can be great as a simple Content Management System. Search engines love it, it’s easy to use and can look great with little effort.
The problem with Wordpress as a CMS is that if you want to create a database of information or a site with more types of content that pages and [...]

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Set up Your Self Hosted Wordpress Blog in 17 Steps

Posted by admin
October 8, 2008

The blogging revolution has changed the way content is published and shared on the world wide web. Everyone is an expert on something and free tools are now available to allow people to share that knowledge with the world and well a profit from it. This guide is how to set up your own self [...]

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Do Yourself a Favor: Avoid iWeb

Posted by admin
September 18, 2008

A few years ago, when I needed to set up a website to find my first job, I turned to iWeb to set it up. It was well integrated with all the other Mac Apps I used and it made setting up a website a breeze. But even on those first websites I set up, [...]

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Guide to Building Backlinks Through Blog Commenting

Posted by admin
September 18, 2008

Backlinks are the most important aspect of building a successful website. To those that don’t know, your search rankings are partly based on how many website link back to yours. So, here’s your guide to do follow blogs.
There are many ways to build backlinks, which I won’t cover here. But there are good way and [...]

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How to Put a Static Link in a Wordpress Header

Posted by admin
August 12, 2008

I’m pretty much sold on Wordpress as a solid Content Management System. I used to be partial to Drupal. But Wordpress is so much easier to use and it can be adapted to do most of what Drupal does. Though, if I’m building a more robust site, such as Global Citizen Wiki, I’m sticking with [...]