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Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’

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?



WordPress, Magazine Style

By Katy • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Blog Promotion, Hot News, Today

From a traditional WordPress theme to magazine style, I’m Blogging That gets a full transformation. Logo, design, tagline… it’s all new. Browse the site and check out my thoughts behind this design.



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 [...]



Better Alexa Rank In 5 Days

By Katy • Feb 4th, 2008 • Category: Blog Promotion, Race For Rank, Site Tools & SEO

In the Race to Rank series I reported last week that my Alexa rank was at 168,322.
My goal is to reach 100,000 by April 2008. At the rate I have watched my Alexa rank decrease (remember, lower is better), I figured that this type of goal was not only obtainable but I could easily do [...]



Ultimate Plugins For WordPress

By Katy • Jan 12th, 2008 • Category: Katy's 2¢, Site Tools & SEO

No doubt that WordPress is the bread and butter of blogging platforms. But really, bread and butter is just toast without the plugins.
Here’s some jelly.
I have compiled a list of the ultimate WordPress plugins (71 total plugins) that will make blogging easier, more productive, and visitor interactive.
If I have left out a plug-in you find [...]



List of Sites to Ping

By Katy • Jan 3rd, 2008 • Category: Site Tools & SEO

A comment today on my blog post from August of last year, Blogs + Pings reminded me that I was going to make an additional post regarding pining after reading Blog Oh! Blog’s eBook on SEO for WordPress users.
Clearly, in my vast plan of other blog posts I had forgotten to make the post so [...]



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 [...]