http://wp-blogger.com WordPress talk from a Wordpress fanatic (and other ramblings...) Thu, 15 May 2008 03:41:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's no secret that ranking for good keywords is a difficult task now a days. Your best bet is probably generating quality content that might catch some attention (backlinks!), eventually bringing traffic to your site. I'm no SEO expert, in fact less than two years ago I didn't know what ... http://wp-blogger.com/google-image-search-traffic-bringing-your-visitors-back-home/ It's late at night and I'm almost ready to go to bed, when I hear that one of the guests on the Jimmy Kimmel show is the guy from MySpace, you know, the guy that when you create a myspace account instantly becomes your first friend. Well, his name, his ... http://wp-blogger.com/internet-killed-the-video-star/ While driving home today I started wondering about the world oldest website. Well, as I found out, Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN (the picture shows the historic NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. ... http://wp-blogger.com/the-worlds-oldest-website/ Well, the story about my jumping eyelids goes back some months now. I don't remember exactly when it started, I just know now that it comes and goes. I do remember however that it came out of nowhere, one random day my right eyelid started going crazy. A couple of ... http://wp-blogger.com/jumping-eyelids-am-i-going-crazy/ I've been meaning to talk about the Language Switcher WordPress plugin for a while. It's a plugin that could be very useful to those of you wanting to make a bilingual blog. My wife is using it at a bilingual (spanish-english) site she runs, and it works great. However, I ... http://wp-blogger.com/making-a-bilingual-site-with-wordpress/ Badi Jones has written a couple of great articles about how to use google adsense to monetize your site: Getting Over the $100 Adsense Hurdle: Talks about the process that one has to go through to get past your first hundred bucks with adsense. I read it and thought, man, this ... http://wp-blogger.com/adsense-for-the-little-guy/ This is my first theme for OpenLD. Please report any bugs for future revisions. Download is now working. Theme: Whitey Version: 1.1 Download: whitey.zip Demo: Wordpress Blog Directory Description: - Simple, white & blue theme for OpenLD. - Quick Search box on front page. - "Adsense ready". - Top blue navigation bar. Installation: 1. Upload the unzipped "Whitey" archive to your ... http://wp-blogger.com/whitey-openld-theme/ For the past 3 months the guys at Wordpress.org have been working on the next version of WordPress. They have just released the first beta of 2.3 and are hoping the more adventurous among the wpbloggers out there will help with testing it. Some of the features of 2.3 include: plugin and ... http://wp-blogger.com/wordpress-23-beta/ I just finished setting up a Wordpress Blog Directory for this site (does the world need one more link directory?). Please feel free to submit your blog or site for consideration. Submission is free. Only blogs powered by Wordpress will be accepted or sites that provide Wordpress resources (such as ... http://wp-blogger.com/wordpress-blog-directory/ A short video containing tips for setting up your Wordpress blog and making it more search engine friendly, has been released by Michael Gray from GrayWolf's SEO Blog. The video, available on YouTube, explains the problems about having duplicate content and describes how to solve them. It is known that ... http://wp-blogger.com/making-wordpress-search-engine-friendly/