15 Unique Comments Plug Ins for WordPress

If you’ve built your Wordpress blog using a free website builder, you’ll end up with a comments box that’s pretty uninspiring.  Yet if you want to increase traffic, create blog loyalty and the potential for high numbers of subscribers, interacting with your visitors using your comments boxes is essential.  What you need are some unique
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WordPress Training: Saving and Returning To Draft Posts and pages

If you’re writing a post, and decide that you’d like to come back to it another time, rather than publishing right away you can save your content as a draft. In the main post editor, if you’re working on a new post and want to take a break, just click on Save Draft over here.
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WordPress Training: Checking your stats; inbound links from the dashboard

It’s nice to know that you are being read and who’s checking out your stuff. The stats and incoming link dashboard pane gives you a pretty good idea. Incoming links basically gives you an outer glance look at how people arrived at your blog. Say another blogger links to one of your post and somebody clicks
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Google SEO Tip #5 – Can I use Robots.txt to Optimize Google’s Crawl?

Google SEO Tip #5 – Can I use Robots.txt to Optimize Google’s Crawl?

Matt Cutts: This is another one of those NOOO kind of videos. I swear I had completely brown hair until you asked this question and then suddenly gray just popped in like that. That’s where the gray came from, really.

So no, please don’t use robots.txt in an attempt to sort of


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Google SEO Tip #4 – Does PageRank Take Into Account Cross-Browser Compatibility?

Google SEO Tip #4 – Does PageRank Take Into Account Cross-Browser Compatibility?

Matt Cutts: The answer is no. I mentioned this in another video but let me just reiterate; PageRank is based on the number of people who link to you and how reputable they are, the links that come to your site. It is completely independent of the content of your site.

So,


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Google SEO Tip#3: How Much Traffic Do You Think is Generated by Marketers Searching for Their Own Target Keywords?

Google SEO Tip#3: How Much Traffic Do You Think is Generated by Marketers Searching for Their Own Target Keywords?

Matt Cutts: Real interesting question.  I think it probably is not all that much and I’ll give you a reason or two for that.

Number one, take a look at how many people follow me or Danny Sullivan on Twitter or people that subscribe to my blog; the numbers that you end


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Google SEO Tip#2: Is PageRank Calculated Differently for Domains Registered Before 2004?

Google SEO Tip#2: Is PageRank Calculated Differently for Domains Registered Before 2004?

Matt Cutts: That is completely false. There is absolutely no difference between 2004 domains, 2005 domains, 2006 domains; they all acquire reputation in the same way.

There is literally no value to getting a pre-2004 domain or pre-Google IPO domain or whatever conspiracy theory you want to spew out. Please we have


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Google SEO Tip#1: What Is the Best Way to Check Your Own Site for Keyword Rankings?

Google SEO Tip#1: What Is the Best Way to Check Your Own Site for Keyword Rankings?

Matt Cutts: Okay, you’re going to get a little bit of a rant from me here. In one sense yes the band’s best answer is to do the search, scroll through, and see if you see yourself. That’s the short answer. The long answer is you really shouldn’t be doing that. That’s the


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10 Ways to Speed up your Free WordPress Website

So you've created your free WordPress website and you have perfected the design and functionality, but it is slow to load up and you are losing potential viewers who won't wait around and feel their time is being wasted. If your pages are taking too long to load, people are not going to wait. They expect
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