WordPress Training: Add a PayPal button to your self-hosted WordPress blog

If you’d like to add a paypal donate button to your self-hosted blog either on a posted page, or on the sidebar of your blog, this video will show you how in a couple of minutes. First up, you’ll need a paypal account, and for this feature it needs to be a premiere or business account.
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SEO Tip #12: What types of directories are seen as sources of paid links?

SEO Tip #12: What types of directories are seen as sources of paid links?

Matt Cutts: In a sense I’ve answered this question in the past but since enough people are curious to ask I’ll do the spiel again. Whenever we look at whether a directory is useful to users we say, “ok what is the value add of that directory? Do they go out and find entries
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15 Ways to Get More Traffic to My WordPress Blog

Let’s face it, without visitors your blog serves little purpose other than an avenue for you to express yourself.  And if you plan on making any kind of capital from your blog, you need to drive regular and consistent traffic to it.  Take Syed Balkhi as an example.  This young student set up his website
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Seo Tip #11 Can You Make the Real Time Results More Conspicuous?

Seo Tip #11 Can You Make the Real Time Results More Conspicuous?

Matt Cutts: That’s been the heated area of controversy over in Google because sometimes we have that real time results where they actually scroll upwards. That’s not something that you would typically see on the search results pages. Some people think that the real time search results are too visible when they are


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SEO Tip #10: Will Adding My Twitter Feed to My Website Increase my PageRank?

SEO Tip #10: Will Adding My Twitter Feed to My Website Increase my PageRank?

Matt Cutts: The answer to the first two questions is no. Just adding more content doesn’t get you anymore links. Duplicating your Twitter page on your website doesn’t earn you any more juice.  Now that’s not to say that it can’t be a useful addition to your website. Adding more content can attract


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Google SEO Tip#9: Are Chrome’s Usage Statistics Used In Evaluating Site Speed?

Google SEO Tip#9: Are Chrome’s Usage Statistics Used In Evaluating Site Speed?

Matt Cutts: I’m not a hundred percent sure about this one because I didn’t get to check with the Chrome team before I came on to answer these questions but I believe the answer is no, at least right now.

The sort of thing that Google is going to look at might


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Google SEO Tip#8: Do Tag Clouds Help or Hinder SEO?

Google SEO Tip#8: Do Tag Clouds Help or Hinder SEO?

Matt Cutts: The thing to think about first off is what a tag cloud is. Typically you might have a blog or something like that and then over here in the right-hand sidebar or over on the left sidebar you’ll see a whole bunch of different tags that have been used to mark


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Google SEO Tip #7: Can A Spammy Website Affect the Ranking of Other Sites Hosted on the Same Server?

Google SEO Tip #7: Can A Spammy Website Affect the Ranking of Other Sites Hosted on the Same Server?

Matt Cutts:Great question. On the list of things that I worry about, that would not be near the top. So I understand, and Google understands that shared webhosting happens. You can’t really control or help who else is on that IP address or Class C subnet.

The other thing is, if you


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Google SEO Tip #6 – Why Doesn’t Search Query Data in Webmaster Tools Appear to Match What I See When Searching?

Google SEO Tip #6 – Why Doesn’t Search Query Data in Webmaster Tools Appear to Match What I See When Searching?

Matt Cutts: There are a few reasons why this might happen. First off, maybe you’ve got personalized search and maybe you’ve clicked on things or not clicked on things and so you’re getting different search results than a lot of other people might be seeing.

The second thing is it can depend


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