blogging 102 | Two New Plugins for me

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WordPress Excerpt Editor

Excerpt Editor lets you easily make post excerpts from all your posts and pages. With a host of options that will allow you to customize the excerpts including one to let you show the latest post in its entirety and the rest in excerpt or even giving you the entire home page as full posts while the rest are excerpted. There are a couple of really good reasons for using excerpts. First it will even out how your page looks when people show up on it. For those of us who are occasionally long winded and other times not so much this is a very good thing. The second big reason to use them is it eliminates quite a bit of duplicate content which is bad for SEO.

The second new plugin for me is NoFollow Those Dupes which is something that not everyone is going to need. I have actually installed it here yet as I am working on some theme upgrades before I do. The great thing is it doesn’t actually eliminate duplicate content, which just irritates the Google crawler, it turns them into nofollow links. You can easily integrate this one into your blog without getting conflict errors with your dofollow plugins, which is very nice.

if you want to see either of these in action have your browser set to show you the nofollow links and head on over to The Other Blog.