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How To Choose The Best Permalink Structure For Your WordPress Blog

by Sam on May 30, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 24 Comments

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 that are dynamically created by PHP that end up with something like this: www.yourdomain.com/?p=1

Below, I will show you the best permalink structure to use for SEO and how to do it.

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How To Create A Custom Front Page In WordPress

by Sam on May 20, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 22 Comments

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 news and other types of products and services. Top names such as CNN, BBC, Flickr and Time. So as bloggers, we don’t need to limit ourselves to the simple blog layout since WordPress provides quite a few options for further customization.

So today, I’ll show you how to create your own custom front page that can serve your visitors as a sales page, introductory page or just about anything you wish.

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How to Build an E-Commerce WordPress Site in 5 Minutes

by Sam on April 27, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos with 13 Comments

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 Dog Media demonstrates how easy the plugin setup is and does it in under 5 minutes.

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10 Things that Unnecessarily Complicates Your Blog

by Sam on April 24, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 38 Comments

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 of non-standards compliant code that not only gives your blog a cluttered look, but sometimes causes your blog’s pages to load improperly or not at all. With all the modern emphasis on productivity comes an equally important emphasis on simplicity and order on the Web. A successful blog needs to be useful and visually appealing which means that to keep yours on the radar, you’re going to have to clean it up a bit. Here are some steps you can take to keep your blog simple, clean and in tip-top shape.

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Secure Your WordPress Blog Against Malicious URL Requests

by Sam on April 18, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 9 Comments

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 to Secure Your WordPress Blog and 10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog.

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5 Additional Extreme Steps to Secure Your WordPress Blog

by Sam on April 11, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 13 Comments

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 5 additional tips and practices to ensure that your investment of time, energy and money in your blog never goes to waste.

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Have You Ever Been Hacked? Simple Mistakes to Avoid & How to Recover

by Sam on March 26, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials with 26 Comments

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 source of income, especially for the unsuspecting. The thing about it is many of us have never witnessed the devastating effects that malicious scripts can have on a website, so I’m going to show you an example of what happens when hackers attack and how to deal with it.

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10 Simple Steps to Secure & Protect your WordPress Blog

by Sam on March 20, 2010 in Blogging & SEO, Other Tutorials, Security Tutorials, Tutorials with 33 Comments

As of the beginning of 2009 there were approximately Secure & Protect WordPress
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 to ensure that our sites are never exploited.

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How to Add an About Author Bio Box in the Post Footer in WordPress

by Sam on March 19, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Tutorials with 26 Comments

This is a very short tutorial on how to add an About Wordpress Logo
Author Bio Box at the end of your posts just like the one at the end of this post. An author box is very important because it further connects with readers by giving a little background information on the author. I spent 2 days testing different types of plugins for this purpose but could not find any that worked correctly. So I decided to write the code and then this tutorial. Continue reading →

23 Easy Ways to Guarantee More Links to your Site

by Sam on February 28, 2010 in Other Tutorials, Search Engine Optimization, Tutorials with 20 Comments

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 for the foreseeable future since Google uses linking data intensively. Continue reading →

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