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Wordpress Streamlining Cut the Code

July 20th, 2008 · 14 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Bread and Salad Can Kill a Google Bot
Or you could say:
Where’s The MEAT
I look at page source code all the time.  I want to know how many lines of code a search engine bot has to navigate before it [...]

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Do Follow and Lucia’s Link Love

July 2nd, 2008 · 34 Comments

A while back I wrote A Fable Do Follow and Comments when I installed the Do Follow Plug-in. I’ve noticed more and more comments which have nothing to do with the post. They found the blog lab on a do follow blog list and all they want is a link.

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Firefox Spell Check Auto Save Publish

June 24th, 2008 · 10 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I completed this routine and when I looked at the live post there were my bold red and green words that had come up on the spell check in Firefox.

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John Lockwood REALTOR®(thingy goes here) Plugin

June 18th, 2008 · 11 Comments

I have on rare occasions used the word Realtor® in a blog post. Simply because I know it is supposed to have a trademark symbol after it and I don’t know where that symbol is nor do I can to learn. Instead I use real estate agent, which I know being a real estate agent and a Realtor® is not the same thing. But it made it so I didn’t have to find the trademark symbol.

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Disqus your Comments

May 30th, 2008 · 14 Comments

I went to the Disqus website and created an account and set up two blogs and installed the Wordpress plugin here at the lab. Then I got to thinking before I clicked remove all comments, just what does that mean remove all comments? Therefore I made a strategic decision, this Lab experiment would be done on one of my lab rats and not on the lab itself.

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Rotating Header Images

May 28th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Keeping things fresh, adding new content and providing a little eye candy in the process makes coming to your blog an interesting experience.

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A Pro Flickr Account is a Good Idea to Enhance Your Blog Posts

May 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Many of you are already have a Flickr account. Did you know you can use your Flickr account to enhance your blog or website?
With a Pro account for $25 a year you can have unlimited uploads and unlimited sets of images. It is easy to upload and manage images and once they are [...]

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WordPress 2.5 More Observations

April 25th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Manage still exists but Options is gone. The Options have been scattered about various places on the Dashboard. Settings, Plugins, Users are now top right. They aren’t on a tab just sitting there to themselves.

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Trolling for Links vs Being a Backlink Troll

April 22nd, 2008 · 15 Comments

There are plenty of spammers and short cut artist in the net taking a good tool and using it for less than honorable purposes. So why not take a Trolls tool and use it for a good purpose.
Marc Rasmussen made a good point about wanting to put his efforts into commenting where it will [...]

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A Tool to Help Pick Keyword Targets

April 10th, 2008 · 23 Comments

Don’t know where to go to find keywords or specifically what keywords to target? Like Zillow

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