Website Managers

When building your WordPress blog, eventually you will want the search engines to put you closer to the top of their results list for certain keywords. To get up there further, there are some things you can do on your blog.

One of my friends is building multiple sites using WordPress and asked me how long the navigation button titles should be. I thought the answer might help others too, so here is that conversation.

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Replying to comments on WordPress creates a conversation that can not only keep people coming back, but cause your blog to go viral. Most sites I have seen with comment replies put all those replies in a straight line down the page. Others however, indent the replies to other commenters so you know the reply was meant for them instead of for the post author.

Here is the question that started this topic:

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Adding Technorati tags to your WordPress blog posts can boost awareness and get your free website traffic. Technorati is one of the foremost blog directories that links keywords to blogs, rates each blog and shows an excerpt from the latest post.

Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin and is a great tool to manage your WordPress tags in Related Posts, Related Tags, Auto link tags, Tag suggestion, etc.

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How To Use WordPress Post Slug Editor To Get Google’s Attention With Your Blog Post

In an effort to get a more rounded education on the blogging software available, I installed Windows Live Writer. By default it does not have a post slug editor, but it does have a plugin available on their site to change the post slug.

A post slug is what makes the permanent link (permalink) to your post. The permalink is the permanent link to your post. It is defined by the post slug, which is created by the post title. If you post your articles online with WordPress, you will see the post slug after you or WordPress save a draft. There will be an option to edit it at the top of your editing box.

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