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Best Permalink Structure & Options

One of the simplest and most effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques you could implement when launching your WordPress blog is setting the correct ‘pretty’ permalink structure for your site. Pretty permalinks are very important to help your blog’s content to be more understandable and accessible by both your visitors and search engines than URLs [...]

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WordPress Custom Front Page

WordPress is undeniably one of the most robust and user friendly blogging and content management systems on the web. Although when many persons think of WordPress, they limit this amazing free open source software to blogging, while not realizing that this system is used by lots of top online companies around the world to provide [...]

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WordPress E-Commerce

Here’s a quick video tutorial showing you how to add E-Commerce capabilities to your WordPress blog through a free plugin: WP E-Commerce. The basic solution is very easy and allows you to add an almost unlimited amount of products and connects you with the most popular payment gateways. In this video, Adam Purcell from Hungry [...]

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This is a guest post by Tom Walker who is a blogger and designer from a specialist provider of cartridges next day and print media supplies. If you are interested in guest posting on Sam’s Web Guide, please visit our guest post guidelines page here. Failure to monitor your blog can result in the advent [...]

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Protect Your Blog

As I continue the series of techniques to secure and protect your WordPress blog, today I will be showing you how to protect your WordPress installation specifically against Malicious URL Requests that inject code to exploit your theme’s files and MySQL database. If you missed my previous security articles, you may view: 5 Extreme Steps [...]

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Secure your wordpress blog

You can never be too prepared when it comes to internet security, so I have posted a continuation of my previous post,  10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog, with an additional 5 tips to make it 10 times more difficult for your WordPress site to be compromised by hackers. Here are [...]

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Wordpress Hacked

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world with over 6 Million downloads so far (See why I like wordpress here) and because its so popular, you know the bad guys will begin to target its users. Hacking is a very serious issue that can cripple any website and erase a hard earned [...]

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As of the beginning of 2009 there were approximately 133 Million blogs online. This is a pretty large market and also the perfect playground for unscrupulous persons who live for spamming, scamming and just creating malicious programs that can seriously compromise and disable unsuspecting sites. As wordpress blog owners, we need to do everything possible [...]

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There is a growing debate on the net whether link popularity will be relevant in the medium term as search engine algorithms continue to change and evolve to be more efficient and facilitates easier methods for the average webmaster to focus on SEO related tasks. Personally, I think that link building is here to stay [...]

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This is a quick tutorial on how to submit your websites to 3 of the major search engines – Google, Bing & Yahoo It is very important to get your website listed in the major search engines. This is a basic free submission that allows web users to access your website through organic search, provided [...]

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Let’s face it, we cannot be successful on the web without acknowledging the power of google and the importance of having a high search ranking on the world’s top search engine. However, to be successful, we need to know what google is looking for, what the crawlers/bots want to find, and also how to make [...]

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I’ve been going through my website traffic statistics for my blog and noticed some spikes in activity in terms of page hits, that could not be accounted for as legitimate user traffic. So within my webalizer tool (A free tool used to monitor domain traffic and activity) I decided to hunt down the source of [...]

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This is  a very short and simple tutorial on how to redirect your web pages using a simple php script. You may need to do simple page redirection for quite a few reasons. For example; 1) You’ve change your domain name and the old url no longer exists so when the user types in the [...]

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