Category: Blogging

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Blog Ad Networks: Quantity or Quality Traffic?

Published on: April 10, 2009 and has 7 Comments

In a few months Technically Easy will have been around for two years. Within those two years I have switched blogging platforms, tried many themes, and tried several advertising networks. It seems like there is a new ad network created each day, offering something a little different than the current crop of networks. Some of [...]

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How to Easily Add Adsense to Your Blogger Blog

Published on: April 3, 2009 and has 4 Comments

Google’s Adsense is one of the most popular forms of monetizing available for a Web site or blog. It is free to join and easy to display on your site. Unless your host doesn’t allow you to display ads, such as the free version of WordPress, you can easily add them to any site. For [...]

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Technically Easy Gets a New Theme

Published on: April 1, 2009 and has 3 Comments

I talked about some thoughts I had on Web design in a previous post title My Thoughts on Web Page Designs, and also mentioned that I was working on a new theme for Technically Easy. After several weeks of development and testing, I finally switched to the new theme this past weekend. While it isn’t [...]

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Preventing Directory Browsing with .htaccess

Published on: March 11, 2009 and has 11 Comments

In the past few weeks I have written a few posts about plugins I have installed to assist with administering Technically Easy. I find it very important to perform regular maintenance on both the WordPress database and the files to ensure my blog is constantly running. One thing I haven’t touched on is the importance [...]

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Preventing Duplicate Content in Search Engines With WordPress

Published on: February 27, 2009 and has 4 Comments

I was recently looking at Google’s Webmaster Tools, and more specifically the robots.txt section. As I reviewed the robots.txt for my blog, I thought about whether I can make it better. For those who aren’t familiar with the file, it provides information to web robots about what files/directories they shouldn’t access. Search engines use web [...]

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Finding Your Blogger Blog’s Sitemap

Published on: February 18, 2009 and has 120 Comments

Adding a sitemap to Google’s Webmaster tools is one of the first tips you will be told to do when you first manage a web site or blog. It is an easy process to do, and you can get many benefits from it, such as monitoring how Google is indexing your pages, the external and [...]

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Removing Broken Links in Your WordPress Blog

Published on: February 13, 2009 and has 13 Comments

Removing broken links from your Wordpress blog is important, not only from a SEO perspective, but also from a usability standpoint. There are probably many tools and web sites available to you that will help you find broken links in your blog posts. While these do the job nicely, I was looking for an easier way to perform such a task. By easier, I mean from within my Wordpress dashboard.

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Managing Your WordPress Database

Published on: February 11, 2009 and has 10 Comments

Since switching to WordPress in August 2007, I have been looking at the many plugins that can be installed to enhance the functionality of Technically Easy. There are plugins that affect the look and feel of a blog, others that help to increase the speed, and still others that add functionality. As I looked through [...]

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