Choosing keywords for Search Engine Optimization

September 1, 2010

The whole idea of On-page SEO is based on keywords and keyphrases. “Keywords” is the name usually given to the words or phrases that best describe your page content/purpose and best match the words people use when searching for your content. Keeping this idea in mind, what you need to do to get your website [...]

Read the full article →

Creating an email signature in your Blackberry

August 16, 2010
Thumbnail image for Creating an email signature in your Blackberry

For those who want to add a multiple-line email signature in their device, here’s how: 1, Open the MemoPad app 2. Type in your contact information like name, phone, etc using the enter key to create separate lines 3. Press the menu key and press “Select” which allows you to highlight the text. Use your [...]

Read the full article →

How to be contacted online the easy, friendly, efficient, and spam-free way

April 30, 2010

Up to now, we still see people displaying their email addresses in their blog posts. And these include columnists of major news sites which we find very disappointing. The practice of displaying email addresses in web pages is an open invitation to spammers who use spambots which crawl on webpages to harvest anything that looks [...]

Read the full article →

How to encourage readers to leave comments

April 8, 2010
Thumbnail image for How to encourage readers to leave comments

In the past few months, we posted two articles on how to encourage audience response. One article suggested a comment rating system to promote interaction with readers. The other article is about online polls to measure readers’ reaction. But aside from these two, what else can a blogger do to encourage audience or readers response [...]

Read the full article →

Featured Content Gallery and Lightbox 2 plugins

March 21, 2010

If after installing and correctly configuring Featured Content Gallery, a WordPress plugin by iePlexus “that creates an automated rotating image gallery of your posts or pages for use anywhere within your theme,” still the images do not display, chances are you have an active Lightbox 2 plugin installed in your WP site. All you need [...]

Read the full article →

WP.org-focused articles will commence soon

March 12, 2010

Going over the topics related to WP.com blogs we have covered so far, it would seem that we would have covered most of the main concerns of our WP.com bloggers. We will be posting new articles, albeit short, on this site relating to WP.org blogs or the so-called self-hosted WordPress blogs to address queries hitting [...]

Read the full article →

How to put a text widget in your blog’s header

December 3, 2009
Thumbnail image for How to put a text widget in your blog’s header

In an earlier post, How to customize your blog with widgets, leanpearl asked: “How do I put text widget in my header? I wanna use it for social networking sites’ icons.” I thought I use my response to that question as a separate post so it wouldn’t get lost as we progress. Here is my [...]

Read the full article →

How to correctly show off your WP blog stats

November 19, 2009

When a WP blog shows off on its sidebar the following: Blog Stats • 3,000 visits or worse, Blog Stats • 3,000 hits without any additional information, I start asking: “What exactly does that mean?” If a blog stats are presented in this fashion, the numbers look like a block of meaningless information. I know [...]

Read the full article →

Use the Text widget to promote your posts inside your WP blog

November 11, 2009

After seven weeks, I have written more than 20 articles including How to customize your blog with widgets. When I had only 15 or less articles, I did not have any problem listing all my articles on the sidebar using the Recent Posts widget since the widget allows 15 for linking. But what if you [...]

Read the full article →

4 reasons why I prefer a self-hosted WordPress blog

November 10, 2009

By way of background, below entry was meant to be posted at my WordPress.com blogsite to conclude my seven weeks of blogging there. Instead, I decided to post it to this site. Hopefully, this will explain why most of my posts and articles in this site refer to WordPress.com. I am using the same title [...]

Read the full article →