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
May 14, 2009
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...]
Everybody’s got one, do you?
November 14, 2008
It's one of the cool things about blogs. You can read them in your very own "feed reader". And for those who do this, it is quite likely the ONLY way they will read your blog. So, we need to make sure that your blog is EASY PEASY for others to subscribe to. (Subscribe = how they grab your blog and feed it to their reader.) 1. Find an image of those RSS buttons. Here's over 35 styles, each with 8 or more different colors and designs. I'll use one from my photobucket account. You may use this one too if you like. Once you have selected your image, you need to copy the location … [Read more...]
