Posted by David on Jul 27, 2009 in
Other Stuff While I was laid up with my poison ivy it seems to have been a pretty “violent” week in the Internet Marketing world.
You may have heard of this but I didn’t until this weekend and I thought I’d let you know in case you hadn’t heard it.
Google “Slaps” Again
Last week, Google “slapped” again — which means they changed their computer algorithm; the set of computer instructions.
From what I can gather from my research, Google decided to seriously dis affiliate marketers; although it potentially can harm anybody so pay attention to this.
The way Google did that is they took away “points” from pages that have affiliate links on the page.
On a simple level, when Google calculates the “value” of a page, like their Quality Score, they have a set of rules in their computer program.
When they go through a page they look for matches to their rules and if they find a match to a rule they add or subtract “points” to the page’s “score”.
When they’re done they have a final score of the page.
Read more…
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Posted by David on Jul 15, 2009 in
Other Stuff The last 2 parts of this series gave you a bunch of plug-ins to pimp your blog inside and out; see http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/other-stuff/pimp-your-blog-1 and http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/other-stuff/pimp-your-blog-2.
This time we’ll look at glamming up your blog with a customized theme!
Don’t know what a “theme is”?
WordPress defines a theme as:
A theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface with an underlying unifying design for a weblog. A theme modifies the way the weblog is displayed, without modifying the underlying software. Essentially, the WordPress theme system is a way to skin your weblog.
Clear as mud, right?
Really, it’s simple. A WordPress theme is what the blog looks like.
For example, this blog has a brown “messy wood desk” look with the keys and the calculator, pen, etc. It has brownish letter on a very light brownish white background, the left side bad is a gray “paper” with white lined “paper” with red links. And so on and so forth.
WordPress makes it extremely easy to change how your blog looks like by just installing a new theme.
The hardest part is finding the theme you want out of the thousands of available themes 
Let’s look at where to get themes and how to install them.
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Posted by David on Jul 6, 2009 in
Other Stuff We’re going to look at 8 more “must have” plug-ins, in addition to the 9 we looked at in my last blog post.
This time we’re going to look at plug-ins that:
- Add that gives you MUCH better search capability than WordPress
- Adding lots of social media links
- Twitter Tweet and Re-tweet capability
- Gives you peace of mind by making sure your blog is safely backed up so that is some technical glitch happens you can get it back
- A nice visitor greeting facility
- Helps protects your blog from hackers and thieves
Let’s look at the plug-ins in more detail.
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