May 21st, 2008 | Posted in blogging, wordpress
If you like to blog, and you use wordpress, then I found a great site today that has a bunch of amazing free wordpress themes that you may or may not have seen before!
If you are at all like me, then you have probably spent (wasted) more hours of your life than you care to admit looking for high quality free wordpress themes. It’s ok though.. you are not alone, all you really have to do is run a google search for “free wordpress themes” and you will see how there are enough sites out there to confuse just about anyone that is looking for good blog themes.
Well, on smashingmagazine they have a nice article that lists 83 free wordpress themes that they consider to be worth checking out. I went down the list rather quickly and saw several that I had seen before, but also ran into a couple of really nice wordpress themes that I had not seen before. Later I will do a more in depth look at what themes they have to offer… but if you are looking to upgrade your wordpress blog with a new theme, then be sure to head over to smashingmagazine and see what you can find… you may find exactly the wordpress theme that you were looking for!
If you do, be sure to come back here and let us know which theme you selected and post a comment linking to your blog so we can all check out you new theme 
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April 17th, 2008 | Posted in blogging
The guys over at The Pirate Bay, arguably the net’s largest torrent site, have announced the launch of their own blogging network, Baywords.
Many blog networks out there highly censor their user blogs, and often shut them down for what they deem to be offensive or inappropriate material. Well, the boys of Pirate Bay have never been prone to bowing down to the man, and they promise to give their users the same chance… with completely uncensored blogs. The only exception being that it will remove any blog that violates Sweedish laws, those seem to be the only laws that Baywords will not allow its users to violate.
Right now, don’t expect to see too many bells and whistles on the site. It is run by a pretty minimalistic wordpress multiuser blog platform. There are a couple of your expected wordpress plugins, such as the “all in one seo pack”, but don’t look for too much else at this time. The themes also leave a little to be desired.
I signed up to see what they had going on, and they had around 15 themes, none of which really jumped out at me as anything special. But don’t take that to mean that big things are not coming, after all, it did just launch this week, so you can’t expect a great blog network to be born overnight!
If you are looking to start a blog, or even if you currently have your own blog but want somewhere to write more sensitive type material, then check it out, just don’t expect too much just yet.
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April 12th, 2008 | Posted in SEO Tip of Day, blogging
A great way to help boost your sites SEO is through the use of tags on your blogs. Tags are often viewed as just another form of using categories, but they can definitely add value to your site.
I found a great article on dailyseo.org that discusses all the benefits from using tags on your blogs.
Here are a couple of the benefits that your blog will get from using tags on your posts that I picked up from dailyseo website:
- Increase number of pages. This is because everytime you put a tag on a post, your blog will automatically create a page for that tag. For example you can see my tag page for blogging. This way you can limit the number of categories that you apply a post you, and just add your keywords into your tags and create the same effect
- Improve your users experience on your page. Users like to see tag, so feed them what they want
But when you start to use tags… make sure that you are getting the most from your usage. Remember, by using your tags, you are able to keep your category list small. Tags should be used to compliment your category list, not serve as a duplicate (although sometimes I do duplicate mine).
For example… on this post you are reading now:
here are the categories = blogging and SEO Tip of the day
here are my tags: blogging,tags,seo,tips,traffic,webmasters,blogs,marketing,wordpress
Blogging gets duplicated, but the others are merely compliments to the categories.
Use them wisely, and they will dramatically improve your web presence. You can find more ways to successfully use tags on the problogger.net blog.
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April 10th, 2008 | Posted in blogging, search engines, technology
Yesterday I was discussing with a friend of mine how frustrating it can be to post a comment on someone’s blog only to find out that the blog is defaulting to show links as rel=”nofollow”. If you are using wordpress, then this function is automatic by default, and it really penalizes your users that post great content on your sites.
This is basically something that wordpress set up as a default in order to prevent comment spamming. The reason behind this is that the links don’t get the “link juice” from nofollow links, and the sites page ranks are not effected. Of course spammers could care less about their page ranks, but most serious webmasters do (although the benefits of page rank are highly debatable).
Anyway, my friend sent me a great link today on douglaskarr’s marketing technology blog about how you can hack your wordpress code to get rid of the rel=”nofollow” default and start to give your readers the benefit that they deserve for commenting on your site.
Read the full explanation here
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