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Blogging Workshop on International Women’s Day
Blogging is such a great way to build company reputation, and leads to more money, and more happiness through self expression. Many small business owners find writing their website difficult, but have no problem talking about what really matters to them in a blog.
Women [...]
Spam comments that told a story and did not appear to be spam did fool me and Akismet, the spam terminator on Wordpress. Because they were not just a bunch of dreary keywords, which I guess led back to a dubious site, I actually preferred deleting them. Well, if you are going to delete spam [...]
My blog is three months old! As with all anniversaries it is a good idea to celebrate so please help yourself to a piece of virtual cake and help me blow out the candles!
The other good thing about anniversaries is that they create a natural opportunity to look back and look forward.
What are my thoughts [...]
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Spam is getting more creative! I have just received 20 spam comments which Akismet (the Wordpress anti-spam device) has let through its filter, and presented to me to delete or approve.
When I read the first one I was not sure if it was spam.
It started with a feel good quote. I am completely in favour [...]
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I changed the Permalinks setting. (Settings on the dashboard for Wordpress 2.7.1) The default is number based eg p=15. The alternative straightforward options for “pretty” permalinks include a date reference – either day or month – and the name of the post.
It has got to be good for SEO as real [...]
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Delighted to say the blog received the first real keyword-rich search phrase today.
Great news. This means that someone looking for what I offer
can find my site on the internet among the 90,000,000
my research is beginning to pay off
I have evidence that something is working!
It is all about celebrating the journey and not simply [...]
My Wordpress blog is four weeks old. Having had a few miscarriages of communication with previous blogs my idea this time was simply to behave as a real parent. My entirely new domain felt like a new domain in every sense.
My blogging aims for the first month were:
To provide the best [...]
When I first heard about Wordpress I assumed that it was one entity and similar to Blogger or Typepad.
You pick from your prescribed themes and off you go. This is true for Wordpress.com. At Wordpress.com your blog is hosted on the Wordpress.com site so effectively you have the benefit of the [...]
Great day yesterday! I am starting to link my sites so that there are paths from one to another and getting a bit of robot power to make the way easier.
This blog is now my twitter website link, and I have put a link back from my site Creative Spark Communications to this blog. [...]
I went away for the weekend to a family reunion which was wonderful and forgot about work.
Beautiful countryside, good food, good conversations, visiting places I knew as a child, connecting with where I have come from. Great memory: sitting in the sunshine on the day before Easter in the company of about 25 relatives (not [...]