There are now a variety of plugins that offer variations on the concept of customized post descriptions, keywords, etc., etc., but I’ve found that there’s always at least one thing about the plugin that I didn’t like. Before any of those plugins existed (or at least before I knew they existed), I had our PHP […]

I’ve previously discussed the Akismet and Share This plugins for WordPress, and my third “can’t live without it” plugin is Ultimate Tag Warrior, created by Christine Davis. Like most WordPress plugins, this one is easy to use and a joy to see in action. Tags, the most commonly used of what are known as Microformats, […]

We don’t actually use the “Share This” plugin on the Editor’s Ink blog, but I have used it on other blogs and it does a lot with just a little effort. That’s the nature of WordPress plugins in general, but this little wonder is great for those trying to spread the word about their blogs […]

I mentioned in a previous post that WordPress plugins are great little additions to your WordPress blog, and that they can add just about any functionality you can imagine. I’ll talk a little more about each plugin that I recommended in that post as well.
Akismet, which comes pre-installed with WordPress now, can be activated […]

So, you want to start a blog…the question is where exactly do you start? I think the first thing to determine is what the blog will be about. If you are simply adding a blog to your existing site, figuring this out should be fairly easy, as it will naturally follow the industry or topic […]

I’ve been blogging for a while now, and before I started doing so I launched, ran and sold a search engine optimization (SEO) company. To be fair, I actually started blogging prior to selling the SEO business, but let’s just say it wasn’t a mainstay in my SEO efforts at that time. Blogging has been […]

Anyone familiar with SEO knows that this has always been the case. If you create targeted, engaging, and consistent content, the traffic will – eventually – come. Over the years, the trick of many webmasters and SEO firms has been to circumvent the arduous process of actually writing original content. Instead, existing content was taken […]