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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes There were several old combinations that worked well together but since WordPress 2.3 came out many of them stopped working properly or stopped working altogether. Fear not there are replacements out there. Unlike many of the regurgitated idiot lists currently out there, everything I list will work in WordPress 2.5 the only version of the blog software you should be running. Ultimate Tag Warrior hasn’t been supported by the author since WordPress 2.3 came out. Many of its features and those of Bunny’s Technorati Tags, Jerome’s Keywords, and other tagging programs are easily replaced in better plugins. The All in One SEO Pack can even be replaced now. The new power plugin combination consists of Headspace2 and Simple Tags. Between these two plugins you can hand every task that you used to require half a dozen plugins and tweaks. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Some of us went up, some of us didn’t and some of us went down. Thus is the nature of Google PageRank. While this is not wholly a point of vanity like star rank on MyLot, most of you are making a bigger deal of it than it is. Secondly I am sick and fucking tired of all the whining about how you worked so hard to write quality content and Google didn’t jump you as high as some of us, or in fact dropped your page rank. Get over it people, Google doesn’t give a damn about your witty repartee or insights. Google uses a computer algorithm to decide your page rank not a visit by Zagats. I can see that review now. “Your layout is harsh on the eyes so only 3 stars there. Your content wording was smooth like pudding, but the double entendre was too much for a weak stomach making for only 2.5 stars. Your lack of proper nofollow techniques and duplicate content gave us the runs… convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes 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,...