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...]

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...]

10 Tips to Keep Posts Organized

One of the risks of blogging is that a lot of your best writing may get lost under a pile of reverse chronologically organized posts.  Let's keep the best writing front and center, shall we? Built-In Organization 1.  Use PAGES like they were intended.  From the WordPress codex: Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless -- information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content. Other examples of common pages include Copyright, Legal … [Read more...]

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