Upgrading WordPress

April 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

My project today has been to implement the suggestions from a wso I purchased called “Blogging with Success.” The ebook is great. I’m learning a ton about optimizing a WordPress blog for SEO, tags, and keywords. The author recommends a number of plugins, and I’m incorporating those as well.

In the process of playing with the blog, I upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3. I immediately noticed that most of the features that are supposed to be available in the rich visual editor are missing, like text alignment, linking, adding an image, etc.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the source of the problem and finally ended up reading about it the WordPress support. Here I learned it is an ongoing bug that hasn’t been fixed for months. Hmm. I also learned that people are having much more serious problems than just the loss of some icons for editing posts. Not cool.

Now I have to decide, go back to 2.0.7 until the problem gets fixed or stick it out here? I absolutely want to use the visual editor and not just the code option. I have a copy of 2.0.7 and I backed everything up before beginning the upgrade process, so I can go back. Not sure yet what I’ll decide.

In any event, it’s a gorgeous spring day here, and the yardwork is calling. Have a good one!

Filed Under: Internet Marketing, Product Reviews, SEO

Got Page Rank?

February 6, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Google must have done a PR update recently. Boy Million now has a PR4! It’s growing in popularity and authority. A link on the Boy Million website can help with your SEO…

Even bigger news for me is that many of my sites are now ranked. If they were ranked before this, I was not aware. I love it!

Actually, I’ve recognized my Google toolbar does not show page rank acurately at all, even after clearing the cache. Instead, I went to PageRankFaq.info to get an accurate update.

I’ve got 2 sites with PR3, about 5 with PR2, and a whole bunch with PR1. Many of the PR1 sites are blogs I have with Blogini. These have very little content yet. I wonder if Blogini’s backlink strategy is elevating those?

No word yet today on the new Blogini 2.0. You’ll be the second to know.

Filed Under: Progress Updates, SEO

Adsense Code

February 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This afternoon I was checking out one of my new sites and it appeared H&R Block had hijacked the adsense blocks. How could this happen? The niche has nothing to do with finances or taxes. I also checked out some of my older sites and the same thing was happening. Boo!

Remedy: I went into all the adsense code and changed the parameter not to allow image ads, only to allow text ads. That appears to have taken care of it, but it was a bunch of work. I know now I should have set it up this way in the first place and will from now on.

In the process of fixing this, I also cleaned up a lot of the html on my pages and improved the SEO ‘on page’ stuff. It kept me from getting anything else done, but was very productive. Maybe some of these sites will start producing a little better now.

One thing I have done is redesign all the sites I initially made with Instant Adsense Templates. I think I’ve said it before, but buying those now feels like a huge waste of money. I know I’m getting off on a better foot if I design the sites from scratch and that’s what I’m doing. That’s one benefit of XSitePro that I really appreciate. Setting up the page layout is a piece of cake and there’s tons of room for creativity too.

That’s all for now. Stay warm!

Filed Under: Adsense Websites, SEO

Senserely Yours Works!

January 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment

I’ve only made a couple posts on Senserely Yours but I’m seeing some results. Cool! Nothing earth shattering, but cool anyway.

(I mentioned Senserely Yours last week. It’s a community offering blogs and other features along with the opportunity to share in adsense income generated on your pages. It’s free! Check it out…)

I did a google search for Boy Million the other day and my first Senserely Yours blog posting showed up on a results page. Granted it wasn’t first page, but it was there. I’ve got Boy Million included in posts and pages on several sites that did not show up on the google results, either. So there may be some merit to sticking with Senserely Yours.

Speaking of google results pages, we all know how important SEO is if we want to place anywhere near where we can be found. That’s where Boy Million can help, with a cheap backlink that will be promoted for years. The interest in Boy Million is growing rapidly, the Alexa rankings are increasing, and that means the value of a link is increasing too.

You need lots of backlinks in the process of search engine optimization. Boy Million is a very valuable way to add to your arsenal. Check it out to get a picture of what I’m talking about!

P.S. Boy Million is promoted by Blogini, the “backlink behind the scenes power machine.” This is what makes Boy Million stand out in value over all the popular pixel and word cloud pages that are going up everywhere. Ignore those, and check out Boy Million.

Filed Under: Progress Updates, SEO
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