Benefits of a Wordpress Blog

Concentrating on the benefits of a Wordpress blog can provide you with some great optimism for the future. The reason Wordpress is such powerful software is the combination of value, quality, and ease of use that is unparallel in the blog software world. While some people prefer to use more basic blog software, they too [...]

How To Stop Automatic Trackback Spam

Many WP themes show trackback URL by default via code like:
<?php trackback_url(display); ?>
If you don’t want to get trackback, just remove this piece of code from the theme. However, automatic trackback spams run their scripts to get to WP directly. While deleting or hiding wp-trackback.php could solve this problem, a simple [...]

How To Hide Trackback

In my previous post “How to Turn Off Trackback“I mentioned that a simple way to stop automatic trackback spam is to remove wp-trackback.php from WP installation’s root directory.
Automatic trackback spam bots make all efforts on wp-trackback.php file. The bots know the file name and know where to find it. So why not [...]

Anti-spam Plugins

When blog spam becomes ever bigger issue, you need the right weapon to fight back. In Wordpress, many plugins have emerged to address the problem of comment spam. We’ve tested the following anti-spam plugins that help keep unwanted bots and comments out of the gate.

How to Turn Off Trackback

First, why you turn off trackback and when do you need to do it? Many WP bloggers turn off tackback to stop comment spam. In general, there are 2 ways for spam bots to get into your blog, one is from submitting comments in the post page, the other is through trackback.

WordPress 2.1 Upgrade Made Easy

The greatness of WordPress is that there are many talented programmers to keep this blogware updated to implement new technologies and extend new features. To take advantage of this, keep your WordPress up-to-date too. We just upgraded 2 of our Wordpress websites (www.ITCareerSuccess.com and www.IT-Job-Interview.com) to 2.1.2. It’s a really easy process. [...]

Make the Post Title Appealing

No mater what you offer, an appealing title attracts visitors, draw traffic, and generate sales. Once you put your post into those social network sites such as del.icio.us, diggs or some blog index/aggregators, the title will be the key to attract clicks. Thus you should make it a big deal to craft the [...]

Bulk Bookmarking with OnlyWire

Social bookmarking is the way to promote your blog. You provide convenient button for visitors to bookmark your blog posts, and you do this same thing for your posts too. A handy tool called “OnlyWire” can help you bulk bookmark your blog at 15 social bookmarking site all together.

Add This Social Bookmarking Button

Social bookmarking has become an important blog marketing approach. It started with Del.icio.us when you see many blog sites provide a Del.icio.us button to let you bookmark the page. Then there comes more, — Furl, Diigo, Wink, Backflip, etc. If you add a button to each, it will be quite clustered. [...]

New Bloggers, Slow Down

A new blogger has the tendency to write a lot, — 2, 5, even 10 posts a day. It’s not good. Even though you are so excited, you may get burned out soon, that would hurt your long term profitability. Here we are talking about blogging profits, not just for instant fun, thus you [...]

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