WordPress 2.8 Beta 1

The people at WordPress did a excellent job with the release of 2.7.1. They have recently launch WordPress version 2.8 Beta 1 for public testing.

Here are some of the changes which I think are great in the new version:

1) New Theme Installer routines
2) Update Blue Admin Color Scheme
3) Per Page option for plugins
4) Permalink editor changes and fix for pages

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5) Fix most popular link category list

Here’s the list of the full enhancements.

I am going to give it the new blog engine a test drive to see how it works. Of course this will be done on a test blog.

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May 19, 2009 | Filed Under Wordpress | 4 Comments 

DoFollow Vs NoFollow Links

When adding any links on your blog you have the option of using either a DoFollow link or a NoFollow link. So what are the differences between these 2 types of links?

If you are are looking to increase your pagerank then you will be interested in DoFollow links. Before we go into detail about DoFollow and NoFollow Link, let us examine what is pagerank.

Most of you have probably heard about Google Pagerank. Google algorithm determines the number of quality links pointing back to your website.

DoFollow Vs NoFollow Links

If your website has a good number of backlinks then you will have a high PR. Backlinks are actual links from other websites to yours. In other words, if your website has high quality content, more people will link to your website. Therefore Google consider your website to be relevant and in return, give you a higher pagerank.

Difference between DoFollow and NoFollow Links

In 2005 the attribute nofollow was designed by Google’s head of webspam team Matt Cutts and Jason Shellen from blogger.com

NoFollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.

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Let’s say you do a link exchange with another website. This person can place your link as either DoFollow Link or a NoFollow link. If they choose to place a DoFollow link then it will help you improve your ranking. However if they use a NoFollow link instead, it will not contribute to your pagerank. Since the whole idea of link exchange it to increase one’s pagerank, therefore a DoFollow link is much desirable.

How to create a DoFollow and NoFollow link

By default all links created are DoFollow links. Here are how you would code a DoFollow and NoFollow link in html

DoFollow

NoFollow

Hopefully this article has shed some light in the difference between the 2 kind of links. This is especially useful when doing a link exchange.

May 13, 2009 | Filed Under Pagerank, Traffic Tips, Wordpress | 9 Comments 

5 “Must Have” Plugins For Money Making Blogs

Here are 5 important wordpress plugins that I think are useful for any money making blogs:

1) All In One SEO

As mention in the plugin name, All In One SEO is used so that your blog is search engine optimized. You are able to customize the home title, home description, post title and many more. This ensures that your blog contents get pick up by search engines much easily.

2) Whydowork Adsense

Whydowork Adsense is a great plugin to embed your adverts into your post. You are able to specify the position of each advert. Since you can only display 3 text adverts at one given time, this plugin allow you to customize the position of the adverts for the top 3 post. All in all this is one great plugin.

3) WordPress Related Post

With this plugin installed you can display related post at the bottom of every other post. This is a great way to link your blog and to promote other older post.

4) Statpress

Statpress is a great plugin to track you blog statistics, such as number of unique visit per day, last spiders that visited your blog and many more data regarding your blog.

5) Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin creates for you a sitemap of your website. This is important so that the search engine spiders are know how to crawl through your webpage.

May 11, 2009 | Filed Under Blogging Tips, Wordpress | 6 Comments