2008 May

Links Roundup – May 13th 2008

Written by Kevin Muldoon from WordPress Mods
Posted on May 13th, 2008 and filed under Links
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Comment Info Tip WordPress Plugin rocks

Search This have released a wordpress plugin called ‘Comment Info‘. The plugin provides statistics for your commentators. All you need to do is hover over the commentators name and the info box will appear.

Here’s how Search This’s explaination of how it works :

When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from WordPress Mods
Posted on May 12th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Effective Internal Linking Practices

Effective Internal Linking We should all know that outbound links to fresh, original, relevant content on other blogs or websites are vital when it comes to providing users with quality content. But often times we overlook the importance of good internal linking strategy within our own domains.

I’ve put together what I believe to be a fairly solid list of tips to use when …

Written by Eric Odom from Freshy SEO
Posted on May 12th, 2008 and filed under Search Engine Optimisation
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How to Change your Blogger Title Tags

Those of us using Google’s Blogger platform have previously been unable to change our title tags to optimize them for better rankings in search engine results. Until recently, our blog name appeared in the title before the actual name of our posts, like this:

Blogger Generated Title

Luckily, the Blogger team have created a new template tag which generates title tags differently, allowing you to feature only the post name …

Written by Amanda Fazani from Blogger Buster
Posted on May 12th, 2008 and filed under Blogger
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What gave you your biggest traffic burst?

We all try various methods of promoting our blogs. Some work, some don’t and sometimes we get traffic from the strangest of places without even doing anything.

I’d love to hear what has given you your biggest traffic burst. I’m not necessarily talking about the day you had your highest traffic level, I’m talking about the day where you saw traffic double …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from WordPress Mods
Posted on May 12th, 2008 and filed under Promote your blog
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Page Templates – Create a Links Page

These days sidebars get so easily cluttered with recent posts, categories and tags, recent comments, top commentators etc. The list is endless. Throw in your blogroll and your sidebar can become longer than the page content!

Moving your blogroll into its own page can keep things neater and allow you to have a longer list that doesn’t clutter up your sidebar. The way to do this is with a page template.

Creating …

Written by Sarah from Stuff By Sarah
Posted on May 11th, 2008 and filed under WordPress Coding & Design
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Add some pop!

If your designing a theme with a dedicated column to the date stamp, you can take back some of that space under it and add a unique pop to your design.

In the image to the right the date column is a span and the content of the article is in a div to the right of it. Because of the way it is layed out, using a span …