Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’
WordPress Tip: Don’t Forget to Ping
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Pings are a simple way to tell other sites to check your blog for the new content that you’ve posted. Each time you hit publish it sends out a ping to the sites you define in your WordPress settings.
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Permalinks Are Your Friends
Friday, September 18, 2009
Permalinks are the ‘secret sauce’ to successful referral linking, and the more people linking to you, the higher your rank on Google. A permalink is the permanent identifier to a specific weblog post or article. Because blogs tend to be frequently updated, articles you find on a weblog’s homepage one day may not be there the next. A permalink is the permanent identifier to a specific weblog post or article.
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What is social bookmarking? It is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your local web browser, you are saving them to the web where they can easily be shared with friends. The real power behind social bookmarking is being able to view your friends’ bookmarked sites. It’s the equivalent of recommending a restaurant to a friend, if people you know trust a website or blog, it’s worth your time to check it out.
Blogs started showing up about 5 years ago, thanks to services like blogger, making it easy for individuals to have an online diary or journal. It was easy for novice users to update their blog because it was simple: enter a title and write a post. This shattered the barrier to creating content on the web. Search engines like Google took notice that good content came from blogs and began to optimize their algorithms to rank blog content higher than static websites.