Tracking Visits Within WordPress

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? Recommended programs for tracking FEEDS and site VISITORS You should have two things going on your blog already - feedburner integration, and analytics software.  I recommend using Feedburner because it does all the formatting and delivering of your feed off-site - freeing up bandwidth, and brain cells.  And google … [Read more...]

How to Display the Feed Button

To some people words like "feedreader" and "rss" make their eyes glaze over and focus attention to that speck on your tooth.  So why not loose the geekeze, and make it easy for readers to subscribe?  Let them, "get an email every time you post" instead of "subscribe in a feedreader". Here are the subscription options and displays for some of the best sites out there: Copyblogger: This is my favorite title for a subscription feed "email updates" - how could you mistake that?   Note, that copyblogger's audience is primarily bloggers, and yet- why use geekeze like rss & feed when you … [Read more...]

Essential Plugins for a new WordPress Installation

Image via CrunchBase Included in all our bundled packages are 10 plugins: 1. *Akismet anti-spam 2. contact form 3. All In One SEO 4. TinyMCE Advanced - installs extra options in the write panel 5. Google Analytics or Wordpress.com Stats - which one? 6. *WP DB(database) Manager 7. Sociable bookmarking options. 8. Broken Link Checker 9. Feedburner 10. WP-Super-Cache to speed things up * We strongly recommend these two. Did you know that if we are already doing work on your blog, you can add any plugin to your work order for only $5?  If the only items you have on your work order are … [Read more...]

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