Posts Tagged ‘WordPress Plugin’

If you read my post called “Internet Marketing & WordPress: Nancy Andrews Was Right - Forget Social Networking“, then you’ll know that geting indexed in Google is extremely fast if you’re using WordPress or some other blogging tool to get your pages (and site) re-indexed quickly.

And I mean *really* quickly. Those of you that remember, will know that it only takes a couple of minutes and Google go through your site, re-index and you can rank well for your keyword terms (if you’ve written your content properly, that is!)

Well… I now tend to check my site when I’ve done a post as it’s pretty amusing to see how quickly I can get my pages indexed. And I’m loving it when it does it well.

For example, the WordPress Plugin Review on the WordPress LinkSync (aka Blogroll Sync) plugin that I wrote on about an hour ago has already been indexed.

That’s amusing in itself.

But here’s something funnier…

WordPress SEO Results: WP LinkSync plugin keyword dominated »

Are you a professional WordPress Web Developer looking to sync your blogroll from one source to multiple WodPress blogs? Or maybe you’ve got some great links on one blog that you just want to transfer to another? Perhaps you’re a WordPress SEO professional looking to create a continuously growing list of links on your various WordPress blogs just by updating 1 source blog?

If you are, then you may want to try out the WP LinkSync plugin by DCoda Ltd (previously named WP BlogrollSync).

I’m going to admit, that it’s not perfect (yet). However, in this post, as well as reviewing this WordPress plugin, I’ll be outlining how the WP LinkSync plugin can be hacked to get it to do what you need. (I’ve also left a comment on the DCoda WP LinkSync page, so hopefully, they might implement these changes without you having to hack the files like I’m about to show you!).

This post will also look at the relatively undocumented WordPress OPML feature that can be used for importing existing blogroll links into a new site. Did you even know that you could do this?
WP LinkSync Review & Extending WordPress OPML Data For Improved Blogroll Imports »

I’ve not been well the last 4 days. Despite the shivers; aches; hot and cold flushes; runny nose and sore eyes, I’ve still been doing whatever I can to get this latest version of our WordPress FAQ plugin out.

Not just that. I’ve also been working hard on completing a new user manual for it. It’s nearly done except I just have to create some supporting pages and add those links to it.

The FAQ-Tastic User Manual is also Fa(q)ntastic - even if I do say so myself. Why? Because this 30 page, PDF user guide been lovingly crafted and taken just over 6 days to complete to include:

• screengrabs of every page in the WordPress administration needed to use plugin (and images of how it would appear on your site)
• a step by step guide showing exactly what to do - from installation, activation to using the plugin.
• a detailed explanation of the difference between Simple and Paged FAQs.
• an explanation of Paged FAQs and their real purpose.
• bookmark links to easily jump to the section you need.
• and best of all… it’s FREE!

WordPress FAQ-Tastic Lite version 1.0.6 User Manual and plugin - read more »

In Part 1 of WordPress SEO: Top 7 Optimization Areas For Beginners I promised you that I would reveal the 1 WordPress plugin that I use to optimize at least 5 of the 7 areas that I outlined in the last article.

In this article I’ll tell you exactly what the WordPress plugin is, explain why it’s an all in one SEO plugin packed into a neat bundle and even show you how you use it.

Up until now, most people have been using several plugins to achieve the same job. Truth be told, you’re wasting time if you are having to handle several plugins.

In this post we’ll look at:

1. 7 Key Optimization Area: A Summary
2. How this WordPress all in one SEO management plugin can optimize 5 of the 7 key SEO areas.
3. How can an all in one SEO management plugin save you time?
4. Tips on Permalinks for SEO in WordPress.

In this post, I’ll be taking you through the top 7 SEO areas you need to optimize in WordPress in order for your site to rank well in the search engines. Even if you don’t use WordPress, this post may be useful to you.

In Part 2 of this post I’ll be showing you the 1 plugin for SEO that I use on all WordPress sites I build for clients which makes it easy for them (as novices) to take control of their site (without really needing to know the technical aspects of what’s happening!).

If you’re relatively new to search engine optimization you might already know the Top 3 areas that you need to optimize (and if you don’t, then you need to start learning quickly!): 1) Page Title, 2) Meta Keywords and Descriptions and 3) Permalinks.

So… what are the other 4 you need to learn? Well, here’s a quick summary of what we’ll be covering:

1. Page Title
2. Meta Keywords & Description
3. Permalinks
4. First Paragraph
5. More links
6. H1 Site Name
7. H2 Site Description

Okay. I’ll admit it… I completely messed up. Regular readers may know that I recently wrote this pretty excellent guide on how to set up the Semi-Static Wordpress homepage but no-one noticed the *huge* error that I had in the instruction.

No-one noticed *except* from a really amazing Texan Liberty Lady (Carol) who describes herself as *green, green, green* when it comes to WordPress and yet still attempted to take on the Semi-Static homepage. Now that’s really ballsy if you ask me - it’s quite an advanced technique.

Anyway, she emailed me and let me know that she’d followed the instructions and it wasn’t working.

That’s right people. I had a boo boo on my semi (I’ll let you imagination run with that one).

So she kindly let me have access to her site and I had a look around. And you know what? Completely my fault - my “how-to” guide was more of a “how-not-to” guide. DOH! A Homer moment - that’s what happens when you post just before bedtime… (never again!)

Well, guess what? Now that sent her new instructions, she’s successfully implemented it on her Ron Paul website (I was like “Ron Paul Who?“, as I don’t read newspapers and haven’t done for several years now and shy away from any type of political discussion as I find it really messes with my inner wellbeing, man…).

Also - credit where credit’s due - Carol also sent me a tip on updating the code I sent her. Yes, she even spent the time looking up the WordPress Codex to find out more about how to do this. Now, if someone this green spends this much time making sure her website is high quality when it comes to WordPress, then some of you other political bloggers should probably watch out - she’s determined and will probably be spending a lot more time promoting her candidate of choice!

Me… I’m staying out of the fray. I’m all for Democracy and freedom of speech, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah… but the last time Bush got in, so that’s that say about the so-called Democratic system. More of this to come - I’m currently re-writing a blog post that doesn’t make me sound an ideological fascist (cause I’m not! I’m politically apathetic with a tendancy to dislike the masses for their inability to differentiate between what sucks and what doesn’t).

I digress. As usual. Because it’s my blog and I’m tangential…

So… anyone up for a 3rd draft of the Semi for WordPress? Here’s proper instructions this time. An Updated How-To Guide for WordPress Semi-Static Homepages

Are you serious about search engine optimisation for your WordPress site? Wouldn’t be really cool to be able to get your SEO keywords linked internally within the copy of your WordPress Posts and Pages? Imagine if it was possible to do that. Easily.

Guess what? It is… (or will be very soon!)

Knowledge Constructs has recently been working with NLP World Limited (yes, we also build sites!) and apart from them being an excellent NLP training company they now have probably the best online NLP Glossary using Knowledge Constructs new WordPress plugin. Read more »

We’ve just updated our WordPress FAQ-Tastic plugin to version 0.9. This fixes an issue that some people were experiencing with the votings system not working properly. Please feel free to download version 0.9 of our WordPress Frequently Asked Questions plugin.

If you experience any issues with FAQ-Tastic then simply email us at faqtastic_bugs[at]knowledgeconstructs.com (note: please replace the [at] with @). We welcome feedback - it’s the only way of making FAQ-Tastic (and our other future plugins) better!

Thanks for all of you have submitted some of your wishlist ideas. While development of FAQ-Tastic may be on hold for the moment, we still value your ideas. At some point in the future, we aim to update FAQ-Tastic to make it even more fantastic!

Please send us your ideas of how we can improve our FAQ plugin to faqtastic_wishlist[at]knowledgeconstructs.com (note: please replace the [at] with @).

Finally, we’d love to hear from you about how you’re using FAQ-Tastic or even if you’re using it in a different way than it was intended. Let us know and we’ll make link to your site.

FAQ-Tastic is a simple WordPress FAQ plugin. When I first had the idea for it, I didn’t realise that it would be popular and get an excellent review by Michel Fortin. It was simply aimed to fill a gap in the WordPress plugin market while also helping Internet Marketers create authority sites using WordPress.

The idea originally came about from some work I have recently been doing to help promote an NLP Training company. Having studied a little about search engine optimisation (admittedly, I am still a newbie in this SEO game!), the general message I was starting to understand was that search engines love sites that are “authorities” in a specific niche.

Thinking about how to create authority sites, I began researching and experimenting with simple solutions using WordPress and various plugins. It was at this point that I began looking for an FAQ plugin.

The thing that surprised me was the lack of WordPress FAQ plugins. Until the release of FAQ-Tastic, there was only 1 FAQ plugin for WordPress available - the WordPress FAQ plugin by VaamYob. Looking at various posts, it was obvious that there wasn’t any choice about the plugin to use even though people wanted more choice about the FAQ functionality for their WordPress sites.

The need for a good plugin was apparent. The time was right to create a new FAQ plugin but it still wasn’t the over-riding factor that made me choose to build FAQ-Tastic…

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I was recently wondering about the pro’s and con’s of using WordPress as an eCommerce site. Apart from killing the sacred cow regarding keeping blogs as blogs and eCommerce sites as distinct entities (*shock*, *horror*… “how dare I taint the blogosphere” ), Leslie Rohde once pointed out: “Ultimately [a site] is just a bunch of pages. That’s all”.

I’m fully in agreement.

Having done some extensive research into possible Content Management Systems (CMS) from Drupal, Joomla to even Read more »