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I created pingable back in 2007. Still loving blogging about Wordpress. Read more Connect with me via my Google Plus.
5 Tips to improve the SEO of your blog
20
Jul

5 Tips to improve the SEO of your blog

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in SEO with 15 Comments

Getting traffic from popular search engines like Google can really help increase your readership as a blogger. The following are some tips to help improve the SEO of your blog. SEO = Search Engine Optimization 1) Have a site map A site map makes it easier for search engines to index your content and find the [...]

WordPress PHP Code Snip – Assign image to post ID
01
Jul

WordPress PHP Code Snip – Assign image to post ID

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Blogging Tips, Wordpress with 16 Comments

The following PHP code is some code I use on this blog that I thought some others that don’t program may find useful. What it does is assign an image to each unique post ID from WordPress that is a gif file. If you put a file in the image folder in your root directory of your Website [...]

Blog Rating – What is your blog?
25
Jun

Blog Rating – What is your blog?

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Blogging Tips with 1 Comment

Found this pretty cool tool that gives your blog a rating. as you can see below, this blog is rated G. Although from what I can gather the process seems to involve scanning your site for bad words (Quote: “No bad words were found.”), which may not be the best method to score such things. [...]

Google Adsense…or is that Ad cents?
03
Jun

Google Adsense…or is that Ad cents?

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Other Stuff with 43 Comments

A harsh reality for anyone starting out at the online game is that in most cases the money will come in, in cents rather than the big bucks you are dreaming about. Regardless of the idea, or model you are getting into, unless you have a preexisting audience, you are probably going to have to do [...]

Windows Live Writer Review
03
Jun

Windows Live Writer Review

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Blogging Tips with 2 Comments

Windows Live Writer is offline blog editing software and I really like it. Why use an offline editor like Live Writer for posting to your blog instead of the built in editor: 1) Plug-ins – there are all sorts of plug-ins that make creating interesting well formatted posts a breeze, with all sorts of functionality, [...]

5 things you may not know about WordPress
02
Jun

5 things you may not know about WordPress

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Blogging Tips, Wordpress with No Comments

After recently going through the process of setting up WordPress and this site, I feel I have learnt certain things that may help other WordPress users. This article is a report of my experience. 1) You can post to WordPress using Windows Live Writer offline blog writing software. The software at first glance appears to be [...]

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