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Magazine vs. Traditional Themes

By Katy • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Blogging Tricks, Today, WordPress Tutorials

Which WordPress style of theme is right for your blog? See the pros, cons, and questions I asked myself before changing the I’m Blogging That design to a magazine style theme. With so many options for WordPress blogs, is the magazine style theme the one that is right for you content, visitors, and blog?



Easily Organize Post Categories

By Katy • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Blogging Tricks, WordPress Tutorials

After discussing the difference between tags and categories, I thought now would be a good time to discuss how to organize tags and categories on your blog.
The amount of comments and emails received on this post was a great inspiration to see how other bloggers are using tags and categories. What I most commonly heard [...]



Google Image Search and Alt Tags

By Katy • Mar 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog Promotion, Blogging Tricks, WordPress Tutorials

For further reach on your traffic and visitors, are you considering the images used in your blog posts? A lot of people think that they are but they’re missing the full potential available. So, with this post, let’s talk about alt tags and Google’s Image Search.
It’s typical for a lot of bloggers to place images [...]



How to Use All in One SEO Pack Plugin

By Katy • Feb 28th, 2008 • Category: Race For Rank, Site Tools & SEO, WordPress Tutorials

Let’s face it, we’re not all cut out to be SEO (search engine optimization) masterminds. But there are plenty of tools out there to help those of us who are a little challenged in this area.
With my Race for Rank series, I’ve been encouraging myself to take a look at these tools. Even if I [...]



Make Your Free Theme Unique

By Katy • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Katy's 2¢, WordPress Tutorials

Just a couple of weeks ago I was reading a thread in the PayPerPost forums about a link exchange.
In the thread, one poster says to another “we have the same blog design, cool!” And all I could think was “not cool, why do you like that?”
I didn’t say anything in the thread but the idea [...]



Creating Permalinks

By Katy • Dec 24th, 2007 • Category: Katy's 2¢, WordPress Tutorials

Have you met this cute little box in your WordPress write post/page screen? It’s a simple little box really and sometimes, when collapsed it’s easy to pass up.
But it holds a very special value and it’s one that should not be overlooked when you’re working to create the next best blog in the world (or [...]