Welcome back to Search Engine Finesse.  Since we have a full week of giveaways and many posts to whip out this week, today’s lesson is going to be a quicky.  What we really need(ed) is to know if all our efforts and finessing is getting us any closer to the goal, right?
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Under Plugins, Add New, search for “broken link checker”, install, ‘install now’, and activate.
There’s no clicking around to open all the posts, and finding the links, and editing them all manually.  This plugin gathers all the links that are returning with errors and puts them all in one screen for you.  When you edit the [...]

Our focus for the Search Engine Finesse series (see the intro here) will be on writing content of interest to our readers, including terms that will help our readers(& search engines) find us, and creating a quality user experience.   From the horse’s mouth itself:
Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic [...]

Quite often I will compare products or other resources, by writing in tables in my posts.  Until now, I have created my table with Google Docs, exported to pdf, taken a screenshot, saved as jpg, and then uploaded the image.  Other than the obvious hassle, this doesn`t allow any of the good data in that [...]

Some examples from my online week:

trackback on this site for “international calling cards”
88 spam comments this week (I only posted twice)
including some sneaky ones, like “I hadn’t heard of this before!  I will be back for sure!” from “00211234@gmail.com”
went to a website yesterday that told me I had a “virus” and had a pop up [...]

I found the neatest plugin for displaying some randomness on the front page.  For my scenario, a client wanted to display random answers to her clients’ questions.  She wanted to display this on the bottom of the front page.
The easy answer is the Random Featured Post plugin.
1.  Through the plugin screen, go to “add new” [...]